Crossbows and special materials

[Jacob Saltband]

What special materails can a crossbow benifit from?

[Starglim]

I'd say that a light crossbow or light repeating crossbow is mostly made of wood, so can be darkwood, while a heavy crossbow, heavy repeating crossbow or hand crossbow is mostly made of metal and can benefit from mithril.

[Eadric]

I would say all X-Bows are made out of wood.
I never saw a metal crossbow anywhere (exept those skeleton x-bows http://www.kaswords.com/images/products/display/Hunting_Recurve_120LBS_Outd oor_Crossbow.jpg).
Even balistas (which are very heavy crossbows) are made from wood.

[Illeist]

The crossbow in the CRB is composed of metal and wood. The problem, however, is that no materials really give you much benefit. The only material I can really think of would be Wyroot, but it can't be applied to crossbows. So, unless you want fancy flavor (or to bash your opponents), stick with vanilla.

[TheRonin]

Darkwood can save you a few pounds. And its not much more than a Masterwork crossbow and counts as masterwork. If you are a caster at low levels (or anyone with low strength) it might be worth it to save a few pounds of weight. Not super exciting but there you go.