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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CapnZapp" data-source="post: 6961578" data-attributes="member: 12731">Thank you both for actually reading what I wrote. Yes, Crossbow Expert is a feat I dislike on every level. Not least because you don't actually get to dual-wield hand crossbows (which would be awesome).You do get effectively all the mechanical benefits of dual-wielding (including Dex bonus to the bonus attack, effectively giving you the two-weapon fighting fighting style for free so you can stack it with your chosen fighting style which obviously will be archery), including not having to worry about loading and ammunition properties, but you don't get the cool imagery.This point has nothing to do with power or balance. It's just a WTF moment when they hose fantasy Chow Yun Fat just because they suddenly go ultra-realistic on ammunition loading <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />They could even have solved it without "fantasy reload", just by adding, say, "Gnomish Invention - Repeating Hand Crossbow" to the equipment chapter.</blockquote>