Unlimited ammo?

[Aleolus]

OK, what are the various ways you can get a ranged weapon to no longer need ammo, and still function as it was designed to? For instance, could a Brilliant Energy Longbow create and fire energy arrows without the need to load a normal arrow in first?

 

[javcs]

Per RAW, no.

Quiver of Ehlonna, I believe it is.

Quiver of Endless Arrows (by Andy Collins).

I could see letting somebody add an ability that when the bow is drawn, it creates an arrow. Probably wouldn't make it cost a whole lot either, so long as it was just basic arrows.

 

[Patlin]

You could be a Soulbow, or even a regular Soulknife and create your ammo from mental energy. You could play a warlock, for that matter, which I like better but which isn't as closely parallell. A Heward's Handy Haversack filled with ammo is the next best thing to unlimitted.

If I was at home, I'd look through the magic item compendium for a weapon property that does what you want, but I'm not sure one exists.

There was a bottomless quiver on Andy Collins web sight at one point.

There's a special crossbow for warforged in the ECS which is sort of unlimitted.

All in all, arrows are pretty cheap. If I were house ruling this, I'd make the ability fairly inexpensive.

 

[kyrand]

The MIC has the glove (or gauntlet) of infinite blades which allows the user to create an infinite number of ordinary daggers, though IIRC it takes a standard action for each, and they fade away if not used in 3 rounds. It also has 5 daily charges, which can be used to generate magical daggers.

It probably wouldn't be too difficult to modify this to the purpose you're looking for.

 

[Three_Haligonians]

There's a Dragon Magazine that has a magic quiver that does what your looking for and more; not only does it create endless normal arrows but also, a few times per day it can generate special material arrows as well.

I can try and hunt down the specs if you'd like.

J from Three Haligonians

 

[Thurbane]

I think Kittie Brie (sp?) from the FR setting has a special bow with this ability.

Also, the Ranger from the D&D cartoon had stats for a similar weapon in the booklet that came with the DVDs, from memory...

 

[werk]

... A Heward's Handy Haversack filled with ammo is the next best thing to unlimitted.
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I thought you couldn't use the haversack because of a limitation that you can only draw items from it so fast....like it takes a move action to draw out an item, which would gimp it for this purpose.

Maybe the one item was a quiver, but still, it would prevent you from launching more than one arrow that round.

 

[Tinker Gnome]

Press Up, Down, Left, Left, Down, Right, Up, Left, Down, Up, X, O, Right, Right, Left.

 

[frankthedm]

Press Up, Down, Left, Left, Down, Right, Up, Left, Down, Up, X, O, Right, Right, Left.

So which version of GTA is that from?

 

[AnonymousOne]

I know there is a weapon property )MIC) to put your ammo (up to 100 arrows/bolts, I think) in extra-dimensional space ... but not give unlimited ammo....