Great Crossbows and some Crossbow stuff


Pathfinder First Edition General Discussion


I was poking around and enjoy ranged weapons in general. One item I found while on a wiki for some DnD stuff was a Great Crossbow. Its basicly a even bigger heavy crossbow, something I was thinking of adding to the weapons list for my games, along with the minotaur crossbow. And it got me to thinking of something.

As comp bows can be made to account for someone who is really strong, could it be possible to make a crossbow in some manor to take advantage of someone who is really strong? In game it would be by making the string harder to pull back due to it being very strong so it shoots the bolt out alot harder but you have to have the required strength (show by damage mod) to load. In form it works like the comp bow.

One other thing I read about was in anther thread how long it takes to load the bigger crossbows. Could one way to spead them up it enchanting them to shoot bolts of force (Craft Magic Weapon/Armor and the magic missle spell) thus it would be sped up some as a bolt appears as soon as the string is cocked back.

I was curious about others ideas about something like this. Imput?


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I have been toying around with the idea that crossbows have some kind of built in strength in them for a while.

For medium weapons a hand crossbow would have a 12 STR (for 1d4+1), a light crossbow a 14 STR (for 1d8+2) and a heavy crossbow a 16 STR (for 1d10+3).

It gives the weapon some appeal for characters with lower STR. I'm not sure I where I plan to go with it, but so far it seems like my players like it, and its not like I have seen a ton of players suddenly pick up the crossbow because of it.


Dextro Highland wrote:

I have been toying around with the idea that crossbows have some kind of built in strength in them for a while.

For medium weapons a hand crossbow would have a 12 STR (for 1d4+1), a light crossbow a 14 STR (for 1d8+2) and a heavy crossbow a 16 STR (for 1d10+3).

It gives the weapon some appeal for characters with lower STR. I'm not sure I where I plan to go with it, but so far it seems like my players like it, and its not like I have seen a ton of players suddenly pick up the crossbow because of it.

Just allow players to buy Might/Composite Crossbows like they can regular bows.

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You might want to check out another current thread on crossbows here.

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