Slingshot (3.5e Equipment)

A typical Slingshot

Slingshot

Simple Two-Handed Critical: 19-20/x2 Range Increment: 20 ft Type: Bludgeoning Hardness: 5
Size	Cost1	Damage	Weight1	hp
Fine	*		*	—
Diminutive	*	1	*	—
Tiny	*	1d2	*	—
Small	5sp	1d3		—
Medium	5sp	1d4
Large		1d6		—
Huge	*	1d8	*	—
Gargantuan	*	2d6	*	—
Colossal	*	3d6	*	—
The SRD only gives a means to determine costs and weights of weapons for Large and Small versions based on the Medium weapons. Any other supplied values are the author's best determination.

A slingshot has a strong pair of rubber bands attached to a Y shaped handle. The slingshot hurls lead bullets or stone shards. It doesn't shoot as far as a normal sling but has the advantage of increased accuracy. It is favored by druids, halflings. Your Strength modifier applies to damage rolls when you use a slingshot, just as it does with thrown weapons. You need at least two hands to use a slingshot.

You can hurl ordinary stone shards with a slingshot, but stones are not as dense or as round as bullets. Thus, such an attack deals damage as if the weapon were designed for a creature one size category smaller than you (for instance, 1d3 instead of 1d4 for medium size), and you take a -1 penalty on attack rolls.

Mischievous ingenuity amongest halflings has resulted in improvised ammunition for this weapon (-1 penalty on attack rolls applies), including thunderstones, rotten eggs, alchemical items, tomatoes and ferrous aqua pellets, etc.

Halflings gain their +1 racial bonus on attack rolls with a slingshot

--Mufasa 14:56, 20 May 2011 (MDT)

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