If you had a line of players, each with arrows or bolts - could you pass a single bow down the line from player to player in initiative order and have them all fire the bow? It seems in RAW the object interaction would allow the first plater to pass the bow after attacking with the bow to the second, the second in turn could load, attack, and pass the bow again, and so on and so on. You could fire an infinite amount of arrows with one bow.
How exactly do you fire said infinite amount of arrows, it still takes the Attack actually to actually shoot with the bow. Why not just use the same amount of bows for all the players, seems better than hoping the enemies don’t just walk into the firing line and maul you to death.
If you had a line of players, each with arrows or bolts - could you pass a single bow down the line from player to player in initiative order and have them all fire the bow? It seems in RAW the object interaction would allow the first plater to pass the bow after attacking with the bow to the second, the second in turn could load, attack, and pass the bow again, and so on and so on. You could fire an infinite amount of arrows with one bow.
Yes, it seems like that would work, though it doesn't seem particularly useful outside of the very niche situation of having only one bow but needing to make a large number of ranged attacks in a short time.
How exactly do you fire said infinite amount of arrows, it still takes the Attack actually to actually shoot with the bow. Why not just use the same amount of bows for all the players, seems better than hoping the enemies don’t just walk into the firing line and maul you to death.
They're describing each player character using the Attack action to attack with the bow in turn.
This seems incredibly close to the peasant rail gun specifically called out in the DMG as something you should not be able to do. At least, if you’re talking about trying to pull it off in one round like some kind of Gatling gun.
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If you had a line of players, each with arrows or bolts - could you pass a single bow down the line from player to player in initiative order and have them all fire the bow? It seems in RAW the object interaction would allow the first plater to pass the bow after attacking with the bow to the second, the second in turn could load, attack, and pass the bow again, and so on and so on. You could fire an infinite amount of arrows with one bow.
How exactly do you fire said infinite amount of arrows, it still takes the Attack actually to actually shoot with the bow. Why not just use the same amount of bows for all the players, seems better than hoping the enemies don’t just walk into the firing line and maul you to death.
Yes, it seems like that would work, though it doesn't seem particularly useful outside of the very niche situation of having only one bow but needing to make a large number of ranged attacks in a short time.
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They're describing each player character using the Attack action to attack with the bow in turn.
pronouns: he/she/they
This seems incredibly close to the peasant rail gun specifically called out in the DMG as something you should not be able to do. At least, if you’re talking about trying to pull it off in one round like some kind of Gatling gun.