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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Grayhawk" data-source="post: 1166176" data-attributes="member: 11288">I agree with Norfleet's post above.But as I'm not looking for that level of complexity in my game (making mighty crossbows that require a certain strenght to load within a certain time, but which can also be loaded slower by characters with less strength), here's what I've done with crossbows in my campaign:Light Crossbows deal 1d6+2 HP's of damage.Heavy Crossbows deal 1d6+4 HP's of damage.My reasoning: I wanted to give crossbows a boost and I wanted to make it simple. Since a bolt is pretty small (shorter than an arrow, anyway) I went with a lower damage die that the ones currently used for crossbows. The +2 and +4 to damage comes from the crossbow's strenght (the Heavy Crossbow obviously gets a bigger bonus as it confers more power to it's projectile).While the maximum possible damage remains the same as with the current rules, I like the thought of the increased minimum damage. This way a crossbow is a greater force to be reckoned with without stepping too much on the toes of a short- or longbow specialist, due to their increased rate of fire. (Which to me is close enough to what I believe is the reality of a crossbow being deadly, even in the hands of a novice, but not comparable to a real bow in the hands of a specialist.)If you use this house rule, I guess you could also implement a rule that allows you to fire a Heavy Crossbow once each round if you have a strenght of 18 or greater, as the +4 to damage could imply that if your bonus from strenght was +4 or greater, you can load a Heavy Crossbow as fast as you can load a Light one. As you propably can tell, I haven't really thought this through, as that might also imply that you should be able to load the Light Crossbow faster with a strenght of 14 or higher... And how would Rapid Reload fit in with this... Hmm, I guess that's why I didn't go down that road...But if any of you have ironed out the details, please share  <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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