If an "archer" is a bow specialist, what's a crossbow specialist?

[rgard]

Also an archer, or is there a specific name for a crossbow specialist?

A peasant with a good dex.

 

[Tyler Do'Urden]

Also an archer, or is there a specific name for a crossbow specialist?

Yeah. Lame.

 

[BullMarkOne]

Also an archer, or is there a specific name for a crossbow specialist?

William Tell?

 

[Thurbane]

Put down another vote for arbalester/arbalesteer...

 

[Prince of Happiness]

Archaic Gangsta.

 

[shilsen]

Considering the number of complaints I've heard about the crossbow's inferiority to the longbow in D&D, I second "cross bowman" or "quarreler".

 

[Slife]

Bow:Archer
Crossbow:Crossarcher

Makes perfect sense. And if you take any archer's bow away and give him a crossbow, he'll be a very crossarcher indeed.

 

[Chupacabra]

Answer: Someone who can only fire once a round.

Serious Anwer: Crossbowman or Arbalestier (but the latter technically only refers to a user of a particular type of crossbow: the Arbalest)

 

[trancejeremy]

Also "Arblaster" (I actually wonder if that's where the word "blast" comes from? Because that Arbalest/Arblast was a really powerful crossbow.)

But I don't see what's wrong with "Crossbowmen', really. It might not be as catchy as archer, but follows the same pattern as "Rifleman" or "Gunman" or "Artilleryman"

 

[drothgery]

Also an archer, or is there a specific name for a crossbow specialist?

Wizard who's out of spells.