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<blockquote data-quote="CapnZapp" data-source="post: 6961938" data-attributes="member: 12731">I'm sure you've already fully on board on this, Prism, but just to repeat:You can't (reliably) dual wield crossbows, but you can use a single hand crossbow and gain all the benefits you normally associate with dual wielding: using your bonus action to fire an extra bolt, adding Dexterity to its damage...To me that's a nuisance. If the mechanical benefits are judged okay, why not then allow the imagery? The rules allow you to become exactly as powerful as Chow Yun Fat... except you're denied the cool dual-wielding imagery. That's seriously backwards thinking in my book - I'd much rather make hand crossbows a dual-wieldable weapon and let it function using the regular rules for two-weapon fighting.That this simplifies the game and removes a special snowflake, which is good. That it makes the Crossbow Expert feat redundant is better <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />(I'm fully on board in return with how your DM runs a different show, Prism. So the above isn't a comment on your group's play)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="CapnZapp, post: 6961938, member: 12731"] I'm sure you've already fully on board on this, Prism, but just to repeat: You can't (reliably) dual wield crossbows, but you can use a [I]single[/I] hand crossbow and gain [I]all[/I] the benefits you normally associate with dual wielding: using your bonus action to fire an extra bolt, adding Dexterity to its damage... To me that's a nuisance. If the mechanical benefits are judged okay, why not then allow the imagery? The rules allow you to become exactly as powerful as Chow Yun Fat... except you're denied the cool dual-wielding imagery. That's seriously backwards thinking in my book - I'd much rather make hand crossbows a dual-wieldable weapon and let it function using the regular rules for two-weapon fighting. That this simplifies the game and removes a special snowflake, which is good. That it makes the Crossbow Expert feat redundant is better :) (I'm fully on board in return with how your DM runs a different show, Prism. So the above isn't a comment on your group's play) [/QUOTE]

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