Two Crossbow-related Feats

[Shades of Green]

Two crossbow-related feats that I was thinking about:

Rapid Reload
You can reload crossbows with exceptional speed.
Prequisite: DEX 13+.
Benefit: You can reload a Light Crossbow or a Hand Crossbow as a free action; you can reload a Heavy Crossbow or a Repeating Crossbow as a move-equivalent action.
Normal: Reloading a Light Crossbow or a Hand Crossbow requires a move-equivalent action. reloading a Heavy Crossbow or a Repeating Crossbow requires a full-round action.

Combat Reload
You are adept at avoiding blows while reloading a crossbow.
Prequisite: DEX 13+, Dodge.
Benefit: You do not provoke attacks of opportunity when reloading a crossbow.
Normal: Reloading a crossbow provokes attacks of opportunity.

Feedback will be welcome.

 

[Arkhandus]

Seems fine to me. Though there's already a Rapid Reload feat, I would guess that you just wanted to change it a tad....?

 

[Shades of Green]

Seems fine to me. Though there's already a Rapid Reload feat, I would guess that you just wanted to change it a tad....?

I just wanted to extend the Rapid Reload feat from Sorcery and Steam to crossbows as well, not just guns. The above feat is for campaigns without firearms; in campaigns with firearms, this feat wil apply to both crossbows (as above) and firearms (as in Sorcery and Steam).

Or is the Rapid Reload feat mentioned in other sourcebooks as well?

 

[ivocaliban]

I just wanted to extend the Rapid Reload feat from Sorcery and Steam to crossbows as well, not just guns. The above feat is for campaigns without firearms; in campaigns with firearms, this feat wil apply to both crossbows (as above) and firearms (as in Sorcery and Steam).

Or is the Rapid Reload feat mentioned in other sourcebooks as well?

Pretty sure Rapid Reload is in the PHB 3.5e.

 

[Shades of Green]

Pretty sure Rapid Reload is in the PHB 3.5e.

Ah, That explains it. I'm using 3.0E

The main difference between the 3.5E SRD Rapid Reload and my version of it is that my feat applies to all crossbows at once while the 3.5E SRD feat applies only to one type of crossbow at a time. I think that it won't be too overpowered to apply this to all crossbows at once - thugh I'd probably require a seperate feat for firearms.

What do you think about the Combat Reload feat?

 

[Bagpuss]

both look fine to me.

 

[Arkhandus]

Rapid Reload originated in 3.0's Sword & Fist book. Then it was made part of the 3.5 core a few years later. For reference.