Item: Singing Shortbow (Greater)
Rather than a normal bowstring, this +3 greater striking greater thundering composite shortbow has a string made of animal gut, much like a musical instrument's. When you shoot the bow, it releases a soft musical note: sonorous if your aim is true and discordant if your shot goes off-target.
Activate 2 command (auditory)
Frequency once per hour
Effect You sing, hum, or whistle a note, and your bow provides appropriate accompaniment. Make a Strike with the bow. If it hits, the bow generates a magical effect determined by the note you sung, which has the traits indicated in parentheses. This affects every creature in a @Template[emanation|distance:10] from the creature you hit. As normal for an emanation, you choose whether the creature you hit is affected.
- Song of Soothing (emotion, enchantment, healing, mental) Each creature regains 5d10 healing Hit Points and gains a +1 status bonus to saves against mental effects for 1 minute. @UUID[Compendium.pf2e.equipment-effects.Item.Effect: Song of Soothing]
- Song of Suffering (evocation, sonic) Each creature takes 5d10 sonic damage with a DC 38 Basic Fortitude save.
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.
Bow: If the target of the critical hit is adjacent to a surface, it becomes stuck to that surface by the missile. The target is immobilized until it succeeds at an Interact action and a DC 10 Athletics check to pull the missile free. The target doesn't become stuck if it is incorporeal, liquid, or could otherwise escape without effort.
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|---|---|---|---|
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| Wintershot | 15 | Unique | 1d6 |
| Singing Shortbow | 14 | Common | 1d6 |
| Dragonfire Halfbow | 12 | Uncommon | 1d6 |
| Bow of Sun Slaying | 20 | Unique | 1d6 |
| Godsbreath Bow | 15 | Rare | 1d6 |
| Composite Shortbow | 1 | Common | 1d6 |
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| Oathbow | 11 | Common | 1d8 |
| Splithead Bow | 7 | Uncommon | 1d8 |
| Horselord's Longbow | 6 | Uncommon | 1d8 |
| Dazzling Shortbow | 5 | Uncommon | 1d6 |
| Hunter's Bow | 3 | Common | 1d6 |
| Composite Longbow | 1 | Common | 1d8 |
| Hunter's Anthem | 11 | Common | 1d8 |
| Gakgung | 0 | Common | 1d6 |
| Longbow | 0 | Common | 1d8 |
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| Shortbow | 0 | Common | 1d6 |