This odd looking lute serves both as a light crossbow and as Spellcasting Focus for bards. As a free action you can turn this lute upside down to fire a bolt with the crossbow mechanism installed on its back. Any crossbow bolt fired with this weapon deals 1 additional point of thunder damage. Every time the crossbow is fired, a single musical note lingers in the air for a couple of seconds before vanishing. This is Bartwart's first design, and is considered a classic model between bards, although not easy to acquire since Bartwart created only 100 of these items before moving onto his next project.
Proficiency with a Light Crossbow allows you to add your proficiency bonus to the attack roll for any attack you make with it.
This weapon has the following mastery property. To use this property, you must have a feature that lets you use it.
Slow. If you hit a creature with this weapon and deal damage to it, you can reduce its Speed by 10 feet until the start of your next turn. If the creature is hit more than once by weapons that have this property, the Speed reduction doesn’t exceed 10 feet.
Notes: Damage: Lightning, Bard, Ammunition, Loading, Range, Two-Handed, Slow
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