I was wondering if i was in the wrong or being a bit of a but for wanting a simpler magic weapon, Our DM made magic weapons for for our game and they were homebrewed, we got a ranger with a magic bow that could be pumped full of spellslots and did additional radiant damage and could be wraped around there arm for easy travel, a druid with a staff that added on spells to his list without taking up the spells known along with giving them the abality to ignite there whole body on fire, a Barbarian with a grate axe that could be thrown and returned to them like a boomerang an additional 2d6 or 8 damage and was considered magical, while i got as a ranged fighter who had crossbow expert a heavy crossbow that used special clips of 3 bolts each that could fire 3 bolts in an attack, without crossbow expert it was just 1 shot per attack so up to 3 attacks only, that he made with this being the description "existing bolts can be modified 2 per day, clips must be made at specific forges and cost 500 gold each. The clips have weight to them and take up space the max amount and individual can carry is 15. It takes a full action to reload a clip. The shooter can decide to shoot once, twice, or three times: shooting in a burst. If the crossbow is used in wet/gritty environments the crossbow has a 50 percent chance to jam (roll d100). It takes one action to unjam, if there is a full clip in the crossbow when it jams it takes 2 rounds to unjam. When refilling clips, it takes 1 hour for 3 clips." . I told the DM that it was kinda redundant since it would of been easier to just use a normal heavy crossbow. I felt that i was kinda screwed in the homebrew weapon since a Heavy crossbow that was +2 (like this thing was) would of been just as good in the long run since i would not need to worry about running out of clips mid fight if i miss a lot of shots or fight a large ammount of enemies resistant to magic or are very tanky. so Was i in the wrong for just wanting a normal magic crossbow?
It doesnt just sound like an overly complicated crossbow, it sounds like a +2 crossbow with downsides. Does the bolts at least do extra elemental damage or poison? Or do they just cost 500gp, take extra space, and only add 2 new ways to waste your action?
Seriously, with crossbow expert, at level 5 you will be able to make 2 attacks with the crossbow per action. This crossbow can make 3 in an action, then cost an action to reload, averaging 1.5. And it is only even that good as long as the DM decides it isn't raining and you have more than 1 of those overly expensive clips.
It was supposed to be a test run for the DM, they recently kicked me because I was and I quote "trying to break my character" when I was asking about belts if giants str another party member had found in a shop which seemed to have one of each. I just wanted a higher str of 20 ((was 13 cause I was DeX heavy)) so I could assist in being a tank for the barbarian and take some of the blows Haha
The bolts did no extra damage, it was just an over priced +2 crossbow which he eventually gave me all the clips for but I was limited to 15 which in the span of a boss fight and getting to said boss fight ended up being used up before the boss was even half way down
oh the team was great good chemistry and what not haha, just the DM was not being the best it seemed, He allowed me to build my character the way i did then told me i was trying to break ti when i just wanted o help the single barbarian tank since she was almost downed a couple times. hope they atleast get to enjoy the end of the campaign :P
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I was wondering if i was in the wrong or being a bit of a but for wanting a simpler magic weapon, Our DM made magic weapons for for our game and they were homebrewed, we got a ranger with a magic bow that could be pumped full of spellslots and did additional radiant damage and could be wraped around there arm for easy travel, a druid with a staff that added on spells to his list without taking up the spells known along with giving them the abality to ignite there whole body on fire, a Barbarian with a grate axe that could be thrown and returned to them like a boomerang an additional 2d6 or 8 damage and was considered magical, while i got as a ranged fighter who had crossbow expert a heavy crossbow that used special clips of 3 bolts each that could fire 3 bolts in an attack, without crossbow expert it was just 1 shot per attack so up to 3 attacks only, that he made with this being the description "existing bolts can be modified 2 per day, clips must be made at specific forges and cost 500 gold each. The clips have weight to them and take up space the max amount and individual can carry is 15. It takes a full action to reload a clip. The shooter can decide to shoot once, twice, or three times: shooting in a burst. If the crossbow is used in wet/gritty environments the crossbow has a 50 percent chance to jam (roll d100). It takes one action to unjam, if there is a full clip in the crossbow when it jams it takes 2 rounds to unjam. When refilling clips, it takes 1 hour for 3 clips." . I told the DM that it was kinda redundant since it would of been easier to just use a normal heavy crossbow. I felt that i was kinda screwed in the homebrew weapon since a Heavy crossbow that was +2 (like this thing was) would of been just as good in the long run since i would not need to worry about running out of clips mid fight if i miss a lot of shots or fight a large ammount of enemies resistant to magic or are very tanky. so Was i in the wrong for just wanting a normal magic crossbow?
It doesnt just sound like an overly complicated crossbow, it sounds like a +2 crossbow with downsides. Does the bolts at least do extra elemental damage or poison? Or do they just cost 500gp, take extra space, and only add 2 new ways to waste your action?
Seriously, with crossbow expert, at level 5 you will be able to make 2 attacks with the crossbow per action. This crossbow can make 3 in an action, then cost an action to reload, averaging 1.5. And it is only even that good as long as the DM decides it isn't raining and you have more than 1 of those overly expensive clips.
That campaign looks totally fked up :D
It was supposed to be a test run for the DM, they recently kicked me because I was and I quote "trying to break my character" when I was asking about belts if giants str another party member had found in a shop which seemed to have one of each. I just wanted a higher str of 20 ((was 13 cause I was DeX heavy)) so I could assist in being a tank for the barbarian and take some of the blows Haha
The bolts did no extra damage, it was just an over priced +2 crossbow which he eventually gave me all the clips for but I was limited to 15 which in the span of a boss fight and getting to said boss fight ended up being used up before the boss was even half way down
U deserve a better team, u ll find one im sure :)
oh the team was great good chemistry and what not haha, just the DM was not being the best it seemed, He allowed me to build my character the way i did then told me i was trying to break ti when i just wanted o help the single barbarian tank since she was almost downed a couple times. hope they atleast get to enjoy the end of the campaign :P