Rules Question about attacks and quickdraw

[Himoura]

A friend of mine and I were chatting about how to help ramp up his damage a little and we got on to javalins Vs Hvy crossbow for a ranged weapon, from there we got on it quickdraw.

Now the question i would like to know is it possible to have 3 hvy crossbows.
Shoot, quickdraw, shoot, quickdraw and shoot again, dropping the weapon or putting them away and having a sword in hand to take any charges.

Is this a valid use of the rules, even though it might be a little broken getting 3 hvy xbow bolts off. and the next question we were discussing is, hvy xbow D10 or D12? I thought it was a d12 with the light xbow being a d8. I would consult my books but I'm at work and of course don't have them with me

 

[hong]

Works fine, and is even balanced against the alternatives. Heavy crossbow does d10, and you could match that with a composite longbow (Str bonus to damage). You can also only do this trick once before having to reload the crossbows, which takes a round for each.

Note that you still need to have the attacks available, so you'd need to be at least 6th level with Rapid Shot to get 3 attacks/round.

 

[squee]

and javalins would be better average damage if you have 18 or better strength, and you can use them in one hand

EDIT: http://www.d20srd.org for all your books at work needs (well most of them... well some of them...)

 

[Himoura]

we're using the knight class and are lvl 11, I was just trying to figure a way to help him a little with the damage output, it was an idea that a I'd seen used in the past with a fighter who didn't have quickdraw. He would use the hvy bow first round and then sword/shield second round.

here is something else i was wondering:
starting with sword and shield in hand. do the quick draw thing with 3 hvy xbows ending in a defensive stance with sword and shield. The defensive stance is to offset their charge, and next round they have -2 AC and the knight gets all his attacks. Not sure if this works i think its too many actions.

plus the whole fact that out other 2 melee fighters would probable have charged.

 

[the Jester]

How can you fire a crossbow- a HEAVY crossbow, no less- with your hands full?

You need two hands to fire a heavy crossbow, so it's more like:


Round One:
Quickdraw- fire- drop xbow...
Quickdraw- fire- drop xbow...
Quickdraw- fire- drop xbow...
Quickdraw sword.

Round Two:
Quickdraw sword, ready shield (*takes a move action*), single attack.

 

[Piratecat]

Vrroom, off to the Rules forum!

 

[Himoura]

I think the 3.0 ver of haste would be needed to pull off what i want to achieve I may have to play around with the idea of something else to help ramp up his damage a little

 

[squee]

with 2 swords and light xbows you could do it in one round,

drop sword
QD crossbow-fire-drop
QD crossbow-fire-drop
QD crossbow-fire-drop
QD second sword

you would have a -2 on the crossbow attacks for using them one handed though.

 

[Himoura]

is the shield a quick drawable item?

possible start with xbow in hand and at the end quickdraw sword and shield?

 

[Hypersmurf]

You need two hands to fire a heavy crossbow...

"... you can shoot, but not load, a heavy crossbow with one hand at a –4 penalty on attack rolls."

-Hyp.