So, this establishes that we can combine a double weapon with a shield and as long as you only use one half of the weapon, you can hold onto your weapon with two hands and still use the shield.Ī shielding weapon is most often employed as an off-hand weapon. The buckler in the middle of the sang kauw gives you a +1 shield bonus to your Armor Class if you attack with only one end of the sang kauw in a round. A creature using a double weapon in one hand, such as a Large creature using a sang kauw, can’t use it as a double weapon. You can fight with it as if fighting with two weapons, but if you do, you incur all the normal attack penalties associated with fighting with two weapons as if you are using a one-handed weapon and a light weapon. You could also run into a room with a one-handed crossbow in one hand and a bigger shield in the other (heavy or tower), shoot the crossbow, then drop it and use a different weapon (like a spiked gauntlet or quick-drawn sword).Īnyway, just checking to see if there anything I was overlooking.Ī sang kauw is a double weapon. Crossbows are better than bows when you have less than 10 Str, because you don't take a Str penalty to damage with them. As far as I know, the only other ways to do that is to take Improved Buckler Defense (a feat I personally dislike) or get an animated shield (something I also dislike, speaking as a DM).
#CHINESE REPEATING CROSSBOW FOR SALE FULL#
The benefit of this weapon I'm proposing is a constant AC bonus from a shield while shooting the crossbow at no penalty at your full rate of attacks. You can't use a light shield when using a crossbow (unless you use the crossbow in one hand). You can use a buckler with a crossbow at no penalty to the attack roll, but you lose the buckler's bonus to your AC (because you used that hand). In that case, this would be my recommendation OP, bucklers and light shields provide the same bonus anyway. A repeating crossbow should be a simple weapon (the difference between using it and using a regular crossbow is less than the difference between using it and using a quarterstaff) with less damage and a smaller range increment than the light crossbow.Īlso, why are hand crossbows exotic weapons? What about making a crossbow small enough to fit in one hand makes it that much more difficult to learn to use than a regular crossbow?Įven the Buckler gives you a -1 penaltyowait there's a specific exception for bows and crossbows. More importantly, it sacrificed range and penetrating power for a higher rate of fire. Historically, the Chinese repeating crossbow was not the tension-powered equivalent of a lever-action rifle using the reloading lever fired the weapon as well. Truth be told, the repeating crossbows as presented are really odd, and don't match up with historical repeating crossbows. I'd keep it in my game, assuming I used the core repeating crossbows. The basic concept is allowable (the title made me think you were ignorant of the design principles of a repeating crossbow but your post proved me wrong), but I'm not wholly sure about the exact numbers.
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