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 hot shot by a creature wielding a shotbow with within 10 feet take 2 hit from the attack instead of one (using the same attack roll, except the second attack has a -2 penalty), damages granted by sneak attack attacks and other precision damage never apply to the second hit.

A shotbow consume consumes 3 bolts per shot*, plus an additional bolt per size category it is higher than medium. A showbow 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 Module (3.5e Equipment)|repeater modules]] making firing and reloading the weapon much more efficient.