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<blockquote data-quote="Paraxis" data-source="post: 6609129" data-attributes="member: 13009"><p>Reality has pretty much nothing to do with D&D.</p><p></p><p>In a real world a giant ball of fire or bolts of lightning would do tons of damage to surrounding areas. Something the size of a dragon, kraken, or titan wouldn't be bothered by a dagger. If something that big wanted you dead it would just step on you. So on and so forth....there are conceits when playing a FANTASY rpg. </p><p></p><p>And for the record if a player wanted to play a character in one of my games without legs, I would just give him some mode of conveyance that allowed him to walk/roll the speed listed for his race, and no I wouldn't make him use his hands to operate it.</p><p></p><p>The hand crossbow is not listed as a 2-handed weapon, that means all it takes to operate it or a sling or a blowgun is one hand.</p><p></p><p>The other hand could be holding another one handed weapon, a shield, could be tied behind his back or the character could be missing an arm. Until the rules say in black and white it takes a free hand to load the weapon it doesn't. RAW is simple that way.</p><p></p><p>Now can you rule differently at your table sure you can, but you could also rule that all elves fart rainbows and have a +100 to do things they are proficient in, none of that would be the rules as written either, just like forcing people to have a free hand to load a 1-handed ranged weapon with the ammunition property.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Paraxis, post: 6609129, member: 13009"] Reality has pretty much nothing to do with D&D. In a real world a giant ball of fire or bolts of lightning would do tons of damage to surrounding areas. Something the size of a dragon, kraken, or titan wouldn't be bothered by a dagger. If something that big wanted you dead it would just step on you. So on and so forth....there are conceits when playing a FANTASY rpg. And for the record if a player wanted to play a character in one of my games without legs, I would just give him some mode of conveyance that allowed him to walk/roll the speed listed for his race, and no I wouldn't make him use his hands to operate it. The hand crossbow is not listed as a 2-handed weapon, that means all it takes to operate it or a sling or a blowgun is one hand. The other hand could be holding another one handed weapon, a shield, could be tied behind his back or the character could be missing an arm. Until the rules say in black and white it takes a free hand to load the weapon it doesn't. RAW is simple that way. Now can you rule differently at your table sure you can, but you could also rule that all elves fart rainbows and have a +100 to do things they are proficient in, none of that would be the rules as written either, just like forcing people to have a free hand to load a 1-handed ranged weapon with the ammunition property. [/QUOTE]
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