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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CapnZapp" data-source="post: 7198821" data-attributes="member: 12731">I can understand a newbie having problems getting to grips with the difference between loading and using the hand crossbow, but that's not what I think the complaints of the thread are about.Unless I'm mistaken, some people complain you can use a hand crossbow in one hand at all. Others are angry you can't use two. Still others ramble on about IRL crossbows, despite how D&D crossbows clearly aren't them.Myself, I'm trying to get the point across that the Crossbow Expert feat seems to allow certain cinematic action archetypes (chiefly scimitar plus hand crossbow) and then just don't.While at the same time enabling the hand crossbow to become EXACTLY the kind of semi-automatic the Sage Advice explicitly said it isn't.And THEN it completely usurps two-weapon fighting by offering the hand crossbow wielder a BETTER variant of TWF:ing than is possible with two weapons!?AND it removes the last reasons to ever use melee since you now aren't penalized for fighting in melee.Essentially the feat let's you walk around with twin shortswords with a 30 foot reach, WITH a free version of the two-weapon fighting style ON TOP of the Archery weapon style. (You don't actually wield any shortswords. All you're wielding is your single hand crossbow. But the game effect is much the same as fighting with two weapons, since you get to use your bonus action to make a bonus attack)But it doesn't end there. All this combines perfectly with Sharpshooter, so your "shortswords" now have 120' reach and ignore any cover. And then, as if that wasn't ridiculously over the top already, it let's you treat your "shortswords" as Greatweapons, i. e. you get to use the -5/+10 mechanism on them as well, which is EVEN BETTER than the regular version since you trade a bit of damage for a) the "offhand" attack, and b) the Archery +2 to hit.There are so many strikes against that feat it isn't even funny. It is so mangled and not doing its job, yet at the same time so ridiculously overpowered, all you can do is to shake your head and ask what the designer was smoking. It truly is the premier trainwreck of the edition, failing on Every. Single. Level.Sent from my C6603 using <a href="http://r.tapatalk.com/byo?rid=93205" target="_blank">EN World mobile app</a></blockquote>

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