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<blockquote data-quote="Haltherrion" data-source="post: 5399435" data-attributes="member: 18253">Guess I don't play often enough with heavy crossbows to catch that or might be an edition difference. He seemed to be giving it its own damage and range increments, dealing with the mechanics of tihs type of weapon, its ammo and applied some thought to how it affected armor. While I wouldn't necessarily pick the same numbers, that sort of treatment seemed fine to me.&nbsp;Per your general comment about why we don't, in D&amp;D, differentiate weapons so much, I touched on that in another recent reply. Take the extreme case of a ballista versus a WWII anti-tank gun. Should those be treated the same? Few would do so I would think, therefore most would agree that at some point in weapon capability it is worth differentiating. Where thay point falls on the spectrum is up to some discretion. As I said in that reply, I think firearms are worthy of being differentiated. Obviously many others don't. For simpler firearms, it isn't such a big deal. By the time you get to World of Warcraft and it's crossbows, bows and monster &quot;hand&quot; cannons <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />, it seems somewhat silly to not differentiate but that's just me.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Haltherrion, post: 5399435, member: 18253"] Guess I don't play often enough with heavy crossbows to catch that or might be an edition difference. He seemed to be giving it its own damage and range increments, dealing with the mechanics of tihs type of weapon, its ammo and applied some thought to how it affected armor. While I wouldn't necessarily pick the same numbers, that sort of treatment seemed fine to me. Per your general comment about why we don't, in D&D, differentiate weapons so much, I touched on that in another recent reply. Take the extreme case of a ballista versus a WWII anti-tank gun. Should those be treated the same? Few would do so I would think, therefore most would agree that at some point in weapon capability it is worth differentiating. Where thay point falls on the spectrum is up to some discretion. As I said in that reply, I think firearms are worthy of being differentiated. Obviously many others don't. For simpler firearms, it isn't such a big deal. By the time you get to World of Warcraft and it's crossbows, bows and monster "hand" cannons :p, it seems somewhat silly to not differentiate but that's just me. [/QUOTE]

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