Does your ranger use a crossbow?

[Zaran]

I was looking at the new Harrowing Ranger Paragon path and they have a picture of an elf shooting dozens of arrows at once from his bow.


So, I wondering... do any of you use a crossbow ranger? If so, do you use powers that do multiple attacks? Did it cause arguement in your group? How do you roleplay launching multiple bolts out of such a weapon?

I really have a hard time wrapping my brain around the concept of using a crossbow to fire more than one bolt a round (unless you had a Van Helsing Gatling crossbow)

I do realize that RAW says that the time to reload the crossbow is built into the attack (*cough*). I just wonder if people really do it.

 

[Holy Bovine]

I was looking at the new Harrowing Ranger Paragon path and they have a picture of an elf shooting dozens of arrows at once from his bow.


So, I wondering... do any of you use a crossbow ranger? If so, do you use powers that do multiple attacks? Did it cause arguement in your group? How do you roleplay launching multiple bolts out of such a weapon?

I really have a hard time wrapping my brain around the concept of using a crossbow to fire more than one bolt a round (unless you had a Van Helsing Gatling crossbow)

I do realize that RAW says that the time to reload the crossbow is built into the attack (*cough*). I just wonder if people really do it.

Leaving out the idea that in a game with fireballs and dragons the idea that a crossbow can fire more than once a round is world breaking I have one of the 4 rangers I have in games I run or play use a crossbow. He's taken feats to ensure he can load it as quickly as he needs and, honestly, no one even batted an eye when he twin striked in his first combat.

 

[Blackbrrd]

Both the ranger in my current campaign and the new campaign is going to use the crossbow.

+1 to hit > +1 avg damage

The second ranger is a "city"-ranger that is going to multiclass into Rogue and is going to played more like a citylike sharp shooter.

Nobody ever thought of it being a problem shooting twice in a round with a crossbow.

 

[Zaran]

Leaving out the idea that in a game with fireballs and dragons the idea that a crossbow can fire more than once a round is world breaking I have one of the 4 rangers I have in games I run or play use a crossbow. He's taken feats to ensure he can load it as quickly as he needs and, honestly, no one even batted an eye when he twin striked in his first combat.

Fireballs and dragons are both magical in nature. So do you think of your ranger as magically reloading the crossbow that fast? Granted you shouldn't be able to fire 12 arrows in a round either but I can at least picture some gangsta elf doing the "Men in Tights" 6 arrows at once move.

And I'm not saying your ranger is dumb. I just want to know how you picture your ranger doing attacks with the crossbow so fast.

 

[Zaran]

Twin Strike is probably the easiest to see firing multiple bolts. But when you get to some of the other powers that let you fire 4+ times in a round. I think "Wow!".

 

[Mort_Q]

But when you get to some of the other powers that let you fire 4+ times in a round. I think "Wow!".

Firing a bow that quickly is just as awe inspiring, to me at least.

That said, I picture the crossbow as having been modified with multiple bow strings and levers and stuff... and having my mental camera angle such that I'm viewing the targets, not the crossbow.

 

[Dire Human]

I really have a hard time wrapping my brain around the concept of using a crossbow to fire more than one bolt a round

Questions like this remind me of Colossal Cave Adventure.

[FONT=System]kill dragon

[/FONT][FONT=System]WITH WHAT?  YOUR BARE HANDS?

yes

CONGRATULATIONS!  YOU HAVE JUST VANQUISHED A DRAGON WITH YOUR BARE    
HANDS!  (UNBELIEVABLE, ISN'T IT?)[/FONT]

 

[ValhallaGH]

I just want to know how you picture your ranger doing attacks with the crossbow so fast.

He uses his 16 strength to man-handle the string back, loads it, hip-shoots, and repeats. Sometimes he does it really fast, which tuckers him a bit and requires him to rest and stretch before doing it again.


I'm at least as cool with crossbows getting multiple shots as I am with long-/short-bows.

 

[Stuntman]

The ranger in my group uses a repeating crossbow. I never have any problems with it. Twice in 6 seconds is not too unreasonable.

 

[Nytmare]

"Each round represents about 6 seconds in the game world."

Except for the rounds that take 1 second, or 60 seconds. All of the measurements that happen once you're on a battlemat are averages, approximations, and abstractions. It takes as long as you need it to take to have it make sense to everybody.