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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 2021366" data-attributes="member: 1465">Point 1 would make a lot of sense. As you say, firing a loaded crossbow may be quite similar to shooting with a loaded gun, which seems more a free action actually (but let's not go too far, ok?).One problem could be someone arguing that this should be done for a bow as well, if the archer chooses to take 2 actions (a MEA for loading, a Standard for shooting) instead of the usually more convenient single standard action, but as long as no one comes up with this, it should be ok (and doing such a thing won't let an archer fire more than once per round anyway).So, IMO it basically should work. I have to say however, that normally the AoO isn't itself a big deal: ranged attackers simply take a 5ft step to avoid that, so only in some circumstances it makes a difference. PLUS, since the crossbowman indeed takes an AoO when loading, there's no true advantage for a crossbowman in melee! One could have the xbow loaded, move to melee range, and shoot, but that (1) would not be better than moving to 10ft range, (2) would not happen often.About 2, I like the idea of a better non-magical xbow. Just be sure not to go too far with the bonus, and to let it COST enough <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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