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I've been thinking about this and reading all the old threads, so I thought it was time to chuck it out there.
How about changing the bow to do lines of lightning? I'm thinking you shoot an arrow and it becomes a 4d6 line lightning as it reaches the target, then continues as a 60 foot line. Reflex DC... oh, 18?
I'd make this a standard action power of the bow to avoid too much spamming of energy damage. Still a bit of a mooksweeper and a nice weapon for the 2nd archer. (The first is never letting the outsider bane bow go!)
What do you think?
To be honest, it would have the same issues as the current version...demons are immune to electricity, and dragons/reptiles aren't a very present foe at all after The Lightless Depths.
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I know, but it's apparently not supposed to be super-duper awesome, so I'm trying for something that will let the PC with the least ranged power occasionally help. Or a nice gift for the head of a village in return for a favour.
I could make it single-target orb as attack action or bolt as standard action.
I could add a stun or silence effect.
I could make it 'root' the target for a round or so.
I could have it summon an arrowhawk :-)
At range the party have a +2 evil outsider bane composite bow, spells, and a crossbow sniper. Only the fighter needs something.
It might be interesting to give the bow a personality...?
Well, you can't have lightning without thunder. What if the bow dealt an equal amount of sonic damage along with its electricity? What if on a critical hit, it summoned a lightning elemental? What if 1/day (week?), it could be used to smite (+cha atk, +level dmg) a dragon/earth subtype/reptilian creature?
I have combined the bow with a magical quiver. The quiver creates magical arrows randomly - i.e. randomly for the PCs, but I plan to put special arrows in it sometimes in order to give the PCs an advantage; you could even add arrows of demonslaying then :-)
Of course the quiver only works when it is near the bow.
I really like this idea, Luna. I'm going to make this happen.
Finally I adapted the bow some more. Since it originally consisted of 3 bows, I made it intelligent and gave it 3 personalities, which roughly corresponded with the 3 gods who made the bow.