Item: Repeating Hand Crossbow
This handheld crossbow features an ingeniously designed catch mechanism at the top of the flight groove, just in front of the latch, which automatically loads a bolt from a magazine and resets the string each time the weapon is fired. A typical repeating hand crossbow magazine holds five bolts.
Trait Effects
Repeating: A repeating weapon is a type of ranged weapon with a shorter reload time. These weapons can't be loaded with individual bolts or bullets like other crossbows and firearms; instead, they require a magazine of specialized ammunition to be loaded into a special slot. Once that magazine is in place, the ammunition is automatically loaded each time the weapon is cocked to fire, reducing its reload to the value in its reload entry (typically 0). When the ammunition runs out, a new magazine must be loaded, which requires a free hand and 3 Interact actions (to remove the old magazine, retrieve the new magazine, and slot the new magazine in place). These actions don't need to be consecutive and are the same as Interacting to reload.
Critical Specialisation Effects
Certain effects can grant you benefits when you make a Strike with certain weapons and get a critical success. This is called a critical specialisation effect. The exact effect depends on which weapon group your weapon belongs to, as listed below. You can always decide not to add the critical specialisation effect of your weapon.
Crossbow: The target takes 1d8 persistent bleed damage. You gain an item bonus to this bleed damage equal to the weapon's item bonus to attack rolls.
Related Items
| Name | Level | Rarity | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Repeating Crossbow | 1 | Uncommon | 1d8 |
| Taw Launcher | - | Uncommon | 1d10 |
| Barricade Buster | 1 | Uncommon | 1d10 |
| Aldori Dueling Sword | 1 | Uncommon | 1d8 |
| Backpack Catapult | 1 | Uncommon | 1d12 |
| Dwarven Scattergun | 1 | Uncommon | 1d8 |
| Explosive Dogslicer | 1 | Uncommon | 1d6 |
| Flying Talon | 1 | Uncommon | 1d4 |
| Phalanx Piercer | 1 | Common | 1d10 |
| Repeating Heavy Crossbow | 1 | Uncommon | 1d10 |
| Switchscythe | 1 | Uncommon | 1d6 |
| Aklys | - | Uncommon | 1d6 |
| Bladed Diabolo | - | Uncommon | 1d4 |
| Bladed Hoop | - | Uncommon | 1d6 |
| Bladesweeper | - | Uncommon | 1d10 |
| Broadspear | - | Common | 1d10 |
| Butchering Axe | - | Uncommon | 1d12 |
| Butterfly Sword | - | Uncommon | 1d4 |
| Capturing Spetum | - | Uncommon | 1d10 |
| Chain Sword | - | Uncommon | 1d6 |