Is there a point to the Quick Draw feat?

[Hypersmurf]

Hypersmurf: Bummer. You just confirmed what I suspected. I was searching EVERYWHERE for the feat that would let me relaod a sling as a free action.

You could probably talk a DM around with "When they cut'n'pasted Rapid Reload from Sword and Fist, they forgot that slings are now a Move action to reload"...

-Hyp.

 

[Hypersmurf]

It should be under the Shuriken description:

He has a point, in that it's badly phrased - Shuriken are treated as ammunition for the purpose of drawing, but it doesn't explicitly state that all ammunition can be drawn as a free action.

The only ammunition it does state that for is arrows, and those are couched in the conditional "If you're using a bow".

It's horribly written. What they were trying to say is "ammunition can be drawn as a free action; however, loading a crossbow or sling still requires an action." (Otherwise loading a crossbow would require two actions - one to draw the quarrel from the case, and one to actually load the crossbow; and saying that shuriken are treated as ammunition 'for the purpose of drawing' would be incredibly pointless.)

So there are three possible readings:

1. All ammunition can be drawn as a free action, though reloading a crossbow or sling takes longer.
2. Only arrows may be drawn as a free action, when using a bow.
3. Arrows or shuriken may be drawn as a free action, when using a bow.

1 requires a little bit of inference. 2 has further-reaching implications (like doubling the time to reload a light crossbow or sling). 3 is silly.

To the best of my knowledge, 1 is the intended interpretation.

-Hyp.