Sword of Spirit
Legend
I realized my question about the spear-thrower actually goes a lot further.
I can‘t find any rule saying that you need a second hand to load ammunition. O5e didn’t have such a rule in early printings, but put it into errata and later printings because it was always the intent. I’m not sure whether Level Up made the same oversight, whether it intended not to require an extra hand for loading ammunition, or whether I‘m just not seeing the rule.
In addition to spear-throwers, the weapons I can see that are clearly impacted are blowguns, slings, and hand crossbows. And since hand crossbows have the dual-wielding property, without an ammo loading rule you can dual-wield regular old hand crossbows and somehow miraculously reload them both with your hands full.
If anyone else is experiencing deja vu, that‘s because these are exactly the sorts of things that came up before the O5e errata. So I’d really like an official word on whether it‘s intention or oversight with this new system.
I can‘t find any rule saying that you need a second hand to load ammunition. O5e didn’t have such a rule in early printings, but put it into errata and later printings because it was always the intent. I’m not sure whether Level Up made the same oversight, whether it intended not to require an extra hand for loading ammunition, or whether I‘m just not seeing the rule.
In addition to spear-throwers, the weapons I can see that are clearly impacted are blowguns, slings, and hand crossbows. And since hand crossbows have the dual-wielding property, without an ammo loading rule you can dual-wield regular old hand crossbows and somehow miraculously reload them both with your hands full.
If anyone else is experiencing deja vu, that‘s because these are exactly the sorts of things that came up before the O5e errata. So I’d really like an official word on whether it‘s intention or oversight with this new system.