Repeating Crossbow

bbear

Current crossbows have lower rate of fire than longbows, which makes the latter more attractive option for power gaming. I propose the weapon repeating crossbow to level the playing field.

Repeating Crossbow:
-Heavy crossbow
-Set rate of fire at 3
-No bonus for thaco (high rate of fire in exchange for lack of accuracy)

Edvin

bbear said:

Repeating Crossbow:
-Heavy crossbow
-Set rate of fire at 3
-No bonus for thaco (high rate of fire in exchange for lack of accuracy)

Why people love things from that terrible DA2....

You allready have Light Crossbow of speed what more you need ?

bbear

Frankly I havent played Dragon Age 2. Light crossbow of speed is for thieves who cant use heavy crossbows.

ZanathKariashi

And a repeating crossbow would be light. Every example in history has given up range and power for higher volume of attacks.

You know a heavy crossbow has a speed of 1/2 right...it takes 2 rounds to actually shoot them.

The only way I could maybe see it is to prevent movement completely while actively equipped (and for 1 round after), and reduce the base damage to 1d4 per hit, but allow it to attack 4 1/2 times per round without any enhancement bonus to damage (aside from ammo). Since a repeating heavy crossbow would be a fixed position machine gun basically.