Shotbow (3.5e Equipment)

A strange artifice indeed, the shotbow is pretty much a shotgun crossbow. Using strange and unusual mechanisms, the shotbow is capable of shooting many bolts at once. Creatures shot by a creature wielding a shotbow within 10 feet take 2 hits from the attack instead of one (using the same attack roll, except the second attack has a -2 penalty), damage granted by sneak attacks and other precision damage never apply to the second hit.

A shotbow consumes 3 bolts per shot*, plus an additional bolt per size category it is higher than medium. A shotbow only has enough ammunition to fire once before requiring to be reloaded. Reloading a shotbow is a full-round action. Shotbow can accommodate repeater modules making firing and reloading the weapon much more efficient.

Shotbow are always masterwork (included in the price above).

* The bolt must be of the same type as the attack count as a single hit, thus 3 bolts of slaying would not cause 3 save vs death.