Ignoring the 5-foot disadvantage penalty may not seem like a big deal, but you’d be wrong in thinking so. The Crossbow Expert feat is a must-have if you have an Extra Attack feature associated with your class. Crossbow expert eliminates this restriction, allowing you to fire off multiple attacks per round with your crossbow. In essense, this takes the crossbow out of the plausible weapon conversation of fighters, rangers, and rogues. Per the PHB, the loading property restricts a player to a single attack per round, no matter the number of attacks they can typically make. So let’s talk about the loading property. I’m not sure what that would be since, as we’ll see, all three parts of the feat have value. Of course, something would have to be removed. I envision a point in Dexterity being included. How that will change with the introduction of One D&D is to be seen. When you use the Attack action and attack with a one-handed weapon, you can use a bonus action to attack with a hand crossbow you are holding.Ĭurrently, the Crossbow Expert feat does not grant you an ability point. You ignore the loading property of crossbows with which you are proficient.īeing within 5 feet of a hostile creature doesn’t impose a disadvantage on your ranged attack rolls. Thanks to extensive practice with the crossbow, you gain the following benefits: One of the ‘original’ feats, the Crossbow Expert feat is described as the following: Good thing we have the Crossbow Expert feat to bypass the loading of a bolt to shoot at your enemy. The biggest obstacle to using a crossbow is spending precious time in combat loading it. Crossbows are criminally underused in D&D. I smell a homebrew magic weapon on the horizon. Now, real crossbows don’t shoot lasers, nor do the ones in D&D…or at least the crossbows my characters have found. Chewbacca’s laser crossbow facsimile was the most badass thing I had ever seen. I hadn’t started playing D&D and had never seen a crossbow before. I’ve thought crossbows are cool ever since I saw Star Wars at the ripe old age of eight.
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