Shattered Kingdoms

Gnomes have developed a self-reloading, hand-held crossbow. It is capable of holding an 80 bolt belt. With the newly patented re-stringing feature, the new crossbow is able to string itself, load a bolt and fire it faster than you can say, "OW! My knee!" There is currently no safety feature, causing a rather large amounts of self-inflicted damage, as well to random people who happen to walk by. The auto-fire feature is still in the bugged stages, as people who have set this on have found that if they are standing behind a friendly, they are unable to stop the auto-fire until the belt has been fully fed through, causing multiple back to the head shots to their group mate. On the plus side, you know where all 80 of your bolts went.

I can't believe Dulrik is arguing for realistic crossbow reloading in SK, where you can get 3-4 shots per combat round from most crossbows, with reloads inbetween.

As long as sk has been around, why haven't gnomes invented gunpowder, so we can give swashies the pistol skill.

Yea as if bandalores didn't do enough dmg already on its own or circle stabs for that matter. I actually don't know if bandalores would work with it, but I am guessing it does

My question is this, if that's the case why are they even 1h? Not that loading a dart is any harder or easier while holding a whip, then it is to load that same xbow while using a shield.

I'm just saying, rule of cool. Just let them reload it. Seriously, it would not be BROKEN. Impossible in reality, perhaps, but it'd be neat.

THIS

Doesn't really make much sense, does it? The obvious answer is to now nerf bows and crossbows. /s

Unlike D&D's 6 second combat rounds, we don't know how long the rounds are in SK.

It can be roughly estimated based on the attacks per round skills, as well as the number of rounds that could occur in one IC hour. Def not anything approaching 12-15 mins, which is what it would most likely take to fire and reload a crossbow three to four times.