That would be why no one uses it as their main weapon. Even with spells that would help one lug it around it's just not practical. It does not fit in the places an adventurer goes. In all seriousness the main problem with lugging a siege weapon around is the fact that it's a siege weapon. But wait.A shrunk down ballista would look a lot like.wait it's coming.I know a crossbow! Now you have to add a shrink spell to your wondrous disk. When a fight brakes out your gonna shout for everyone to move outside and stand still wile you bust out your main weapon right? Cause you still can't move that sucker inside a normal sized door. Launch Bolt defines the cost of the bolt used as a material component (yes we know) to that of a medium sized crossbow bolt./rant/īlast you Tencer and your wondrous floating disks! per caster level, so we have some leeway here.
Floating Disk has the weight limit of 100 lb. SRD doesn't list ballista's weight, but as a rule of thumb, weapons double in weight when going up a size category, so a huge heavy crossbow would weight 8x2x2=32 lb. IthroZada: Ballistae require 2 full-round actions to reload, not 4. By your argument, for example, Leap Attack is invalid because "the designers aren't familiar with" the fact that Power Attack only gives 2:1 returns. Heroes of Battle is not in error it provides additional information simply not available in the core rules, and for at least ballistae it contradicts nothing.
Still, the reason is irrelevant - in addition to the different name, it has a different stat block.įurther, books are allowed to clarify and add on to the existing core material, and would be rather pointless if they couldn't. While the damage and range are equivalent to a Huge heavy crossbow, the cost is not presumably it has the same mechanism for launching the bolt, but other components are rebuilt for better use by most humanoids. Clearly it is not the technical size category term that makes the ballista difficult to use "size" is being used here in the basic English sense. Two size categories of increase, to a true Huge heavy crossbow, would make the weapon impossible to use, and three increases make any weapon unwieldable, yet Small characters can make use of a ballista.
My disagreement wouldn't have made much sense otherwise.Ī normal heavy crossbow already is meant for two-handed use, with a -4 penalty for using even that one-handed. I'm sorry, I meant it literally is a huge-sized crossbow.I'm well aware that's what you meant.
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