Trying to answer the ones I can:
Are Great Crossbows in the game at all? Might they be in the upcoming Equipment guide?
Not in the game now (only hand, repeating, light and heavy) but would not know for Ultimate Equipment.
What about the quickloading enchantment for crossbows?
There is a Feat (Rapid Reload) that allows you to reload crossbows faster. There is also a spell called Reloading Hands in UC
Wand chambers for weapons? (unlikely, but hey, I want a spell-shooting crossbow)
There is a spell called Weaponwand that does something like what you want I think. It's in Inner Sea Magic.
Also, with the size-increasing rules for weapons, am I prevented from simply using a Large Heavy Crossbow?
First of all, when you increase a size, it increases the number of hands needed to wield it. So a Longsword (1-handed) made large needs 2 hands to wield AND you take a -2 penalty to attack rolls for using an inappropriately sized weapon. You cannot go past 2-hands. (so a Large Greataxe (2-handed when medium) cannot be wielded at all by a medium creature.)
For bows, you can use the spell Gravity Bow (which increases the damage dice of a bow by one step similar to what you want to accomplish)
Side note, seems you are trying to go heavy on crossbows. Word of advice, they are greatly underpowered to bows in Pathfinder. (dunno if they were better in 3.0 and 3.5, I didnt play those systems that long.)
Heya...I wanted to make a quick comment also that in Pathfinder Society, if you are using any resources outside of the core assumption (Core, Field Guide, Bestiary) then you must have a copy of that resource. It doesn't matter if you have a print copy, a pdf, a photocopy, whatever...but it can't be from the PRD. This is because GMs are not expected to know every ability for everything ever published...and if a GM asks you where something is from, you must be able to provide it. I just wanted to give you a heads up before you went hog wild with additional resources :-)
Carlos basically answered all the questions :-)
Thanks for the info. Are there any 'bomb launchers' for alchemists? For some reason I see Heavy Bow-Gun users when I think of my Alchemist. XD
There is indeed, but it was just recently added in the Advanced Race Guide in the Goblin equipment section, which is sadly not legal for PFS play.
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What about the quickloading enchantment for crossbows?There is a Feat (Rapid Reload) that allows you to reload crossbows faster. There is also a spell called Reloading Hands in UC
One more feat for crossbows you might want to look at is Crossbow Mastery, which is, IIRC, from the APG.
And, I think, there is an archetype, Crossbowman, which has some crossbow-related abilities. At a cost. It appears to be a Fighter archetype, and it, also, comes from the APG, IIRC.
