What you are trying to do is very similar to the weapon accessory Weapon Cords.
Weapon cords are 2-foot-long leather straps that attach your weapon to your wrist. If you drop your weapon or are disarmed, you can recover it as a move action, and it never moves any further away from you than an adjacent square. However, you cannot switch to a different weapon without first untying the cord (a full-round action) or cutting it (a move action or an attack, hardness 0, 0 hp). Unlike a locked gauntlet, you can still use a hand with a weapon cord, though a dangling weapon may interfere with finer actions.
Based on that, the action for your character should be at least a move action, even with Quick Draw.
If he drops it while attached to a cord he's not juggling it.
You're asking two very different questions.
The answer to your first question is as Snowblind indicated. It is best to run it as the weapon cord instead of a string/rope attached to the waist. Actually it doesn't really matter which you call it since the weapon cord doesn't interfere with anything except "finer actions".
Quick draw doesn't factor into the first question.
As for your second question....I'm not actually understanding your second question.
If you're asking, if he can dual wield crossbows and reload them, using juggling? Sure, he counts as having a free hand because he only has two crossbow, so he can use whatever type of action is appropriate to reload them. He's going to need light crossbows and the rapid reload feat.
It's also unclear whether or not he counts as using two hands to fire the crossbow. If he does not he takes the -2 for TWF with crossbows (as listed in the entry) and another -2 for firing the crossbows with only 1 hand.
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If he's vital striking, he can only make 1 attack, so what's the problem with using a swift action? It's not like he needs to reload more than once each round.
Yes, this in general looks munchkin-ny. A weird archetype, odd weapon choice, asking for action economy advantage houserules, using vital strike for anything useful, and oversized weapons. On the other hand, crossbows typically suck anyway, and depending on the level 6d6 per shot (without any modifiers an average of 21 damage) is pretty tame. Honestly my issue is I can't conceive of what this player is possibly trying to accomplish.
EDIT: You cleared it up some. If all he wants is to dual-wield crossbows and not suck, give him repeating hand crossbows or something. You're already looking to houserule, just fix the problem at the source.
Just Level 5, starting the second book of RotRL soon.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1h7DeyTS_PvmBLVi5ix9PElJKFz3ZyFYC4IP M_BTmkAw/pubhtmlI got his build here, now a lot of things fall together.
It's a Zenarcher/Gunslinger Build.I'll be away for an hour so my respone might take some time.
Link's not working for me, but those two classes combined alone (alongside the action economy houserule question) reek of some abomination against science being crafted here.
What you are trying to do is very similar to the weapon accessory Weapon Cords.
Based on that, the action for your character should be at least a move action, even with Quick Draw.
Weapon cords are 2-foot-long leather straps that attach your weapon to your wrist. If you drop your weapon or are disarmed, you can recover it as a move action, and it never moves any further away from you than an adjacent square. However, you cannot switch to a different weapon without first untying the cord (a full-round action) or cutting it (a move action or an attack, hardness 0, 0 hp). Unlike a locked gauntlet, you can still use a hand with a weapon cord, though a dangling weapon may interfere with finer actions.
Might I mention that weapon cords also used to use a lesser action (was it free?), but they increased it because gunslingers were trying to do this specific thing- use the cords to allow them to reload and basically juggle their weapons using only a bought, mundane item.
No, if you want to juggle, you need to at least take two levels of that bard archetype. Or alchemist 2 for extra arms. ETC.
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If he wants to be a bolt ace he should just be a bolt ace. There's no need to game the system like that. APs (RotRL included) just aren't that hard.
If he has a specific character concept he's going for, in flavor not mechanics, then just rig that to work if needed. I don't let my players ask for specific rule changes; they can tell me what they want to accomplish and I'll make that work in the most balanced way I can manage. It seems like you should start at square one with this guy and figure out where he's trying to get, not what weird path he's taking.
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Depending on the level and party composition, having your group run into a room full of shadows may have been a bit unfair.
And now you may be having the issue where your player seeing how "unfair" the game is, wants to optimize/munchkinize to hell and back so that they don't encounter the same problem again.
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So, I run a game where I've been asked this:
If my rogue drops his small crossbow, which is attached to my belt with a string/rope, can I pick it up as a free action with quick draw?
I couldn't find an appropiate answer.
My quess qould be yes, but he'll be considered as in difficult terrain, but I'm afraid I'm missing something.
Not that much of a rule juggler.Hope you can help me. :)
Just to be clear, the "small" cross bow is small in what respect? As I understand it, undersized crossbows are not an option, so I'm unclear what a small crossbow refers to and how that differs from it just being a crossbow.
Anyway, for rules, the Weapon Cord is what you seek:
Weapon Cord: Weapon cords are 2-foot-long leather straps that attach your weapon to your wrist. If you drop your weapon or are disarmed, you can recover it as a swift action, and it never moves any further away from you than an adjacent square. However, you cannot switch to a different weapon without first untying the cord (a full-round action) or cutting it (a move action or an attack, hardness 0, 0 hp). Unlike a locked gauntlet, you can still use a hand with a weapon cord, though a dangling weapon may interfere with finer actions.
As written, it's a swift action to pick it up.