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Longbow vs Heavy Crossbow. 5th Edition. Wanna try make a ranged Fighter build, going Arcane Archer and Variant Human. Stumped on which of the main two weapons to go with. Longbows. - A bit less damage. + Weighs less. + Better range. + All you need is Sharpshooter feat to make it godly right out of the gate.
Shortbow is a simple weapon, while a longbow is a military weapon. Without gaining specific training, shortbows therefore allow the proficiency bonus with Bards, Clerics, Monks, Rogues and Warlocks. Longbows are heavy weapons, making them difficult to be used by small characters (e.g. Haflings, Gnomes, etc.)
Longbow definitively surpasses heavy crossbow because you can take sharpshooter and cap your dexterity sooner because you don't need to take XBE to use your extra attack. Heavy crossbow requires just as many feats as the hand crossbow, but just does less damage at every level. Basically, you either choose the hand crossbow because it does the ...
Scottford1. Dexterity it is very clear in the rules that with a ranged attack you use dexterity modifier for both the attack roll and damage. Dexterity for both Attack and Damage rolls. Thrown weapons use Strength for ranged attacks. Thrown weapons with the Finesse Property (Daggers) can use either Strength or Dexterity. It's Dexterity.
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For more D&D discussion: Discord: https://discord.gg/dndnext Lemmy: https://ttrpg.network/. Longbows should be strength based. Perhaps this is an unpopular opinion, but longbows should 100% be strength based. An English/Welsh longbow was 6 ft tall and required 81 pounds of force for the string to be drawn back.
Longbow: 1d4 + str modifier + dex modifier damage; on a crit, add double your strength modifier instead. I feel like this adequately represents what draw power gives you: a weaker PC would be able to use the bow, but not very well, and weaker PCs would be better off with a short bow.
If I remember right, back in 1st edition, long range of a longbow outdoors was 210 yards---pretty close to 5e. From the thread on stack exchange, it looks like old Gary Gygax did his homework reasonably well.
English longbow. The English longbow was a powerful medieval type of longbow (a tall bow for archery) about 6 ft (1.8 m) long used by the English and Welsh for hunting and as a weapon in medieval warfare.
If something says it adds to the damage with your weapon, add it to the damage. In your example, you got the math right. 18 DEX is +4 modifier. If your proficiency is +2 (and assuming you are actually proficient with the weapon), and you roll a 10 that's: 10 + 2 + 4 = 16. For damage, a longbow is 1d8.