Triad Heavy Crossbow (3.5e Equipment)

A complex heavy crossbow with three bows, this mechanical wonder can fire three shots at once in burst fire. This consumes three bolts of ammo, and additional damage not on the bolts themselves are only added to one of the bolts in burst fire (such as adding an ability score to damage, or sneak attack). The damage of all three bolts counts as a single attack, useful for breaking damage reduction.

It does not have a stock like a rapid fire crossbow or repeating crossbow, so after it fires it must be reloaded as normal. The triad heavy crossbow can reload all three shots as a full round action.

Abilities which grant extra attacks with projectile weapons only add one additional bolt instead of three per shot (such as from Rapid Reload or Splitting).

The triad light crossbow counts as a heavy crossbow for all purposes, such as feats and abilities which interact with heavy crossbows.