Build of brass and oak, this crossbow is assembled with a robust series of gears that allows faster loading. This crossbow loads and fires four bolts with each pull of the trigger, dealing heightened damage to a similarly sized crossbow but using more resources. A weapon commonly favored by lycanthrope hunters due to its ability to quickly stick a large amount of silver in a target, the Barnett is a robust but mobile tool.
The Barnett Crossbow is a one-handed weapon that ignores the loading and reloading property. You have a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapon.
While this weapon uses the shotgun stat block, it is not a firearm and proficiency in martial weapons or a one-handed crossbow will allow you to apply your proficiency bonus to the Barnett Bow.
It’s up to you to decide whether a character has proficiency with a firearm. Characters in most D&D worlds wouldn’t have such proficiency. During their downtime, characters can use the training rules in the Player’s Handbook to acquire proficiency, assuming that they have enough ammunition to keep the weapons working while mastering their use.
This weapon has the following mastery property. To use this property, you must have a feature that lets you use it.
Push. If you hit a creature with this weapon, you can push the creature up to 10 feet straight away from yourself if it is Large or smaller.
Notes: Ignore Weapon Property: Two-Handed, Ignore Weapon Property: Loading, Range, Two-Handed, Ammunition (Firearms), Reload, Push
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