Slingshot Crossbow (3.5e Equipment)

A typical Slingshot Crossbow

Slingshot Crossbow

Simple Two-Handed Critical: 19-20/x2 Range Increment: 50 ft Type: Bludgeoning Hardness: 5
Size	Cost1	Damage	Weight1	hp
Fine	*		*	—
Diminutive	*		*	—
Tiny	*		*	—
Small	1gp	1d3+1	2lb	—
Medium	1gp	1d4+1	4lb
Large	2gp	1d6+1	6lb	—
Huge	*		*	—
Gargantuan	*		*	—
Colossal	*		*	—
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 crossbow is a light crossbow designed to shoot sling lead bullets. The crossbow design gives the bullets a +1 to their normal damage and a critical range of 19-20/x2. You need at least two hands to use a slingshot crossbow.

You draw a slingshot crossbow back by pulling a lever. Loading a slingshot crossbow is a move action that provokes attacks of opportunity.

Normally, operating a slingshot crossbow requires two hands. However, you can shoot, but not load, a slingshot crossbow with one hand at a –2 penalty on attack rolls. You can shoot a slingshot crossbow with each hand, but you take a penalty on attack rolls as if attacking with two light weapons. This penalty is cumulative with the penalty for one-handed firing.

You can fire ordinary stones with a slingshot crossbow, 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+1 instead of 1d4+1 for medium size), and you take a -1 penalty on attack rolls.

Halflings Do Not gain their +1 racial bonus on attack rolls with a slingshot crossbow

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

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