D&D 5E Just checking: Hordebreaker Ranger

Vicaring said:

No. See the Sage Advice compendium, which is considered errata and RAW, specifically this question: "Do the first and third benefits of Crossbow Expert turn a hand crossbow into a semiautomatic weapon?"

The answer, shortened to its relevant bits (italics mine): "you can fire it more than once if you have a feature like Extra Attack. You’re still limited, however, by the fact that the weapon has the ammunition property (PH, 146). The latter property requires you to have a bolt to fire from the hand crossbow, and the hand crossbow isn’t going to load itself (unless it’s magical or a gnomish invention). You need to load each bolt into the weapon, and doing so requires a hand."

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Vicaring said:

Er, yeah. You're right, and that's perfectly admissible. You can fire 1 hand crossbow 4 times with that character, provided he always keeps 1 hand free.

My bad. Carry on. Ignore what I said before, when I was improperly assuming the use of 2 crossbows. Oops.

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Klaus said:

I'm guessing it's 1d6+Dex from hand crossbow, plus 1d6 to the target of a Hunter's Mark spell.

Assuming all attacks hit, and Dex is maxed at 20, the character in the OP deals an average of 33 (11 + 11 + 11) to the main target, and 8 to the second target. With an attack bonus maxing at +13 to hit (+5 Dex, +6 prof, +2 Archery).

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meshon said:

You have to use the Attack action to get the bonus action so I'd say that, if the attack was made with the hand crossbow, it's not going to be loaded.

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zaratan said:

no problem at all if you use the same HC: http://www.sageadvice.eu/2015/01/12/crossbow-expert-bonus-action/

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CapnZapp said:

Sorry, the d6 is Hunter's Mark.

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meshon said:

Huh, yep. Jeremy Crawford also says that the part of the feat which implies that the crossbow must already be loaded is, in fact, just flavour text.

Fire away then!

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