![]() ![]() TWFing, which should be considered a standard bolt ace build. I just didn't see the point of a hand-crossbow as a close quarters back-up weapon. Hand-crossbows can be used in conjuction with a shield or melee weapon in your other hand.Īnyway, I'm mostly disagreeing with LazarX idea that crossbow specialists agouldn't be expected to be proficient with hand-crossbows. Maybe you have to carry something in one of your hands, etc.īesides, as Rynjin mentioned, the Bolt Ace is the crossbow-equivalent of the Gunslinger, not necessarily a sniper. Maybe you decided that using a shield is a better idea in a certain situation. More than a few feats effect both your main crossbow and your secondary one. It makes sense that a crossbow-specialist would know how to use hand-crossbows. Is it realistic or accurate? Maybe not but it's more so than use a heavy crossbow when someone is close enough to whack you over the head.Īs for why hand over light or heavy crossbow when PF doesn't really make that much of a distinction? I refer you to point E. (or at least they should While it is true that people would have daggers or short swords in case someone bothers them, gunslingers suck at melee without wasting feats on it. So why not have both?Į) Hand Crossbows are easier to hide. ![]() Why would you use both?Ī) Yes generally snipers are very good in close quarters but we're talking about PCs here.ī) Bolt Aces, if they got proficiency, would get the same bonuses from deadly aim and dex to damage so the damage lowering wouldn't that much.Ĭ) Why not have the close range gun with a bolt of poison like you said ready in case someone bothers you?ĭ) It shouldn't really cost much to have one. In PF, if you could have the feats to use a hand-crossbow in close quarters, you could have the feats to use your main crossbow. What's the advantage to using a hand-crossbow over a heavy crossbow in close quarters? In a realistic (or low-level) game, you'd drop your ranged weapon and use a melee one. Normally snipers would carry melee weapons for close quarters. Specially considering that they can get Dex to damage with the hand-crossbow as well. So the alternative to carrying a less powerful weapon is carrying no weapon at all? The damage of a hand crossbow is generally from either the carriage of poison or sneak attack. They are certainly not going to be wasting their time with the puny damage of a hand crossbow, which was traditionally used to deliver drow poison. Snipers that get caught in close quarters are generally dead meat. It would be stupid for them not to have a small, handheld weapon as a back up. Why wouldn't they use both? Even talented snipers can get caught in close quarters sometimes. ![]()
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