![]() ![]() The description of the Dragon Wing Bow states: The reason that you need a second hand free to reload a hand crossbow is because of the Ammunition property, which specifically states "you need a free hand to load a one-handed weapon". The best argument I can make is that the Dragon Bow creates ammo when the string is pulled back, which on a crossbow obviously requires a second hand, whatever the rules have to say if you pick apart the language. If we go by the rules as written, then Repeating Shot doesn't remove the need to load ammo by hand even though it obviously does exactly that, and Dragon Crossbows don't need to be manually reset even though they obviously ought to. But ammo that comes into existence when you pull the string back should obviously not remove the need to pull back the string. If the weapon produces its own magic ammo, you logically shouldn't need to mess with all that. ![]() Meanwhile the Ammunition quality is all about getting the projectile in the projectile weapon, which requires a second hand if you're pulling an item from a container and manipulating it to put it in place. Repeating Shot removes that quality, so presumably it magically does all those things. The Loading quality is clearly meant to represent the extra time and effort necessary to reset certain weapons from "fired" to "ready to fire": cranking a crossbow's string back, muzzle-loading a pistol, whatever - things that require extensive manipulation of the weapon, and thus two hands. Loading makes you shoot slow, but doesn't require a spare hand, and Ammunition requires a spare hand even if you don't technically need to draw and position the ammo. Cool.īut split up the two changes and suddenly it gets weird. The Repeating Shot infusion waives both requirements, by directly removing the Loading quality and creating ammunition in situ when necessary, and makes your crossbow a repeater. you can fire only one piece of ammunition from it when you use an action, bonus action, or reaction to fire it, regardless of the number of attacks you can normally make. Loading a one-handed weapon requires a free hand. The Ammunition property says, among other things: This is a place where the rules aren't quite saying what they seem to say, and there's an ambiguity.Ī hand crossbow has the Ammunition and Loading properties. If your DM rules that you can have a Dragon Wing Hand Crossbow, then you still would need to a second hand to pull back the crossbow string, since the crossbow would not do that for you as a Repeating Shot crossbow would.ġ I personally do not think that crossbows should be a subcategory of bows, as they handle extremely differently, but based on the D&D Beyond eligible weapons for this feat, in D&D 5e, they seem to be. You do not need a second hand for that with a crossbow that has the Repeating Shot artificer infusion. ![]() So even if the bow can produce its own ammunition, it will still require both hands to shoot. How are you pulling back the string with one hand? A bow requires two hands, not just for loading but also for drawing the string and shooting. If you load no ammunition in the weapon, it produces its own, automatically creating one piece of magic ammunition when you pull back the string. The Dragon Wing Bow can be any type of bow, but its description states (FToD, p. ![]()
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