Projectile Weapons

Ranged weapons are divided into two large 'families', the projectile weapons (that use ammunition) and the thrown weapons. There's also oddballs such at the blow gun, lasso, or harpoon, which have specific rules that govern their use. Read the description of each weapon completely.

Projectile weapons are hand-held, directly wielded objects that a proficient wielder can use to propel ammunition at a foe at a distance. Thus, without ammunition, a projectile weapon is useless, so make sure you have some ammo! There are magical items which generate ammunition, and if you use a projectile weapon, such an item is highly recommended, if you can afford such a thing.

Attacks made with ammunition and a projectile weapon is called a projectile ranged attack, and as the target gets further away, may cause penalties to-hit. Each projectile weapon has an entry in the 'Range' field in their entry. Projectile weapons may make attacks at a distance less than or equal to their range number at no penalty to-hit. If the distance to the target is in the second range band, the attack is made at a minus two to-hit. If in the third, the attack is made at a -4 to-hit. The absolute maximum range a projectile weapon may attack at is the upper end of their tenth range band, at a nearly insurmountable -18 to-hit. Yes, a projectile weapon can usually drive ammunition much further than you can reliably hit with it.

As an example, a hand crossbow can attack a creature at a range of 3 feet to 30 feet without any penalty to-hit, although making ranged attacks within the reach of a foe provokes attacks of opportunity. A hand crossbow can attack at a range of 35 feet to 60 feet at a -2 to-hit, at a range of 65 feet to 90 feet at -4 to hit, up to a maximum of 275 to 300 feet at a whopping -18 to-hit.

In contrast, a heavy crossbow can make attacks at a range of 5 feet to 120 feet at no penalty! Attacks at 125 feet to 240 feet are made at a -2 to-hit, 245 to 360 feet at -4, and a heavy crossbow can make attacks at a range of 1085 feet to 1200 feet at that painful -18 to-hit.

No projectile weapon can make attacks at a distance that is greater than ten times their range band, without feats or abilities that expressly allow such things.

Magic Weapons

Rules for the creation, cost and effects of magic weapons can be found on the following pages:

• Magic Weapons
• Dweomermetals
• Melee Magic Properties
• Ranged Magic Properties
• Reforging

Simple Projectile Weapons

Light Crossbow				2-Hand Projectile / Simple					[edit]
	Cost	Sm Dmg	Med Dmg	Large Dmg	Crit	Range	Wt	Type
	35 gp	see ammo	see ammo	see ammo	see ammo	see ammo	4 lbs	Piercing (physical, common) or by ammunition
	Weapon Qualities: Mighty, Non-Melee
	You draw a light crossbow back by pulling a lever. Normally, operating a light crossbow requires two hands. However, you can shoot, but not load, a light crossbow with one hand at a -2 penalty on attack rolls. You can shoot a light crossbow with each hand, but you take a penalty on attack rolls as if attacking with two one-handed weapons. This penalty is cumulative with the penalty for one-handed firing. Light crossbows can be purchased in higher draw weights to match the Strength bonus of the wielder. This costs 35 gp per Strength mod plus added. Load: Loading a light crossbow can be performed with either a move action or an attack action. The reload time can be reduced by taking the Rapid Reload (Feat). The light crossbow belongs to the "Crossbows" weapon group.

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	Ammo Type	Cost	Sm Dmg	Med Dmg	Large Dmg	Crit	Range	Wt	Type
	Crossbow Bolt	1 sp each	1d6	1d8	2d6	19-20 / x2	80 ft	0.1 lbs each	Piercing (physical, common)
	Weapon Qualities: Expendable
	Crossbow bolts are thick, graceless things compared to arrows. In keeping with the simplicity of the crossbow, the bolts are not sophisticated, either. Arrows must be carefully made with just the right amount of flex, or spine, in the long, slim shafts. Bolts are far too thick and short to flex, even under the brutal firing conditions of heavy crossbows or hand onagers. Bolts have simple conical tips hammered of mild steel, massive shafts of heavy, cheap woods like greenheart, swamp oak, or sycamore, and durable fletching made of thin sections of cherry or pine. They take little to no skill to make, but they do have to be consistently made, so they are all the same size. Despite their low sophistication, nobody can argue that bolts lack in power, and they have won many, many battles.

	Ammo Type	Cost	Sm Dmg	Med Dmg	Large Dmg	Crit	Range	Wt	Type
	Barbed Bolt	5 gp each	1d8	1d10	2d8	19-20 / x2	40 ft	0.25 lbs each	Piercing (physical, common)
	Weapon Qualities: Expendable
	Barbed crossbow bolts are just about the nastiest things you'll ever see. They are stout, brutal devices, whose wicked barbs make the terrible wounds already inflicted by a crossbow much, much worse. Unlike normal bolts, barbed bolts are difficult to make and thus are expensive. They are typically made of the same woods as arrows, although in a thick, strong, graceless fashion, and are often fletched with thin shavings of horn or turtle shell. The massive barbed heads require considerable skill to forge and sharpen. Barbed bolts are heavier than standard bolts, and cannot be fired as far as standard bolts. Pointing a crossbow loaded with a barbed bolt at a someone is a very clear statement that you mean business.

	Ammo Type	Cost	Sm Dmg	Med Dmg	Large Dmg	Crit	Range	Wt	Type
	Blunt Bolt	5 cp each	1d6	1d8	2d6	19-20 / x2	40 ft	0.1 lbs each	Bludgeoning (physical, common)
	Weapon Qualities: Expendable
	Blunt crossbow bolts have the simple conical tip of mild steel replaced by a small round bit of glued-on iron that covers the end of the thick wooden shaft. This means blunt bolts can be made without a blacksmith, just punched out bits of iron. As a result, the cost of blunt crossbow bolts is half that of standard bolts. Blunt bolts weigh the same and do the same amount of damage as regular bolts, although the range is halved. In a hand onager, blunt bolts grant the weapon the Sunder quality at range, since the Hand Onager is also a Siege Weapon.

Heavy Crossbow				2-Hand Projectile / Simple					[edit]
	Cost	Sm Dmg	Med Dmg	Large Dmg	Crit	Range	Wt	Type
	50 gp	see ammo	see ammo	see ammo	see ammo	see ammo	8 lbs	Piercing (physical, common) or by ammunition
	Weapon Qualities: Mighty, Non-Melee
	You draw a heavy crossbow back by turning a small winch. Normally, operating a heavy crossbow requires two hands. However, you can shoot, but not load, a heavy crossbow with one hand at a -4 penalty on attack rolls. Despite this, due to their vigorous kick when fired, you cannot shoot a heavy crossbow with each hand. Heavy crossbows can be purchased in higher draw weights to match the Strength bonus of the wielder. This costs 50 gp per Strength mod plus added. Load: Loading a heavy crossbow can be performed with either a move action or an attack action. The reload time can be reduced by taking the Rapid Reload (Feat). The heavy crossbow belongs to the "Crossbows" weapon group.

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	Ammo Type	Cost	Sm Dmg	Med Dmg	Large Dmg	Crit	Range	Wt	Type
	Crossbow Bolt	1 sp each	1d8	1d10	2d8	19-20 / x2	120 ft	0.1 lbs each	Piercing (physical, common)
	Weapon Qualities: Expendable
	Crossbow bolts are thick, graceless things compared to arrows. In keeping with the simplicity of the crossbow, the bolts are not sophisticated, either. Arrows must be carefully made with just the right amount of flex, or spine, in the long, slim shafts. Bolts are far too thick and short to flex, even under the brutal firing conditions of heavy crossbows or hand onagers. Bolts have simple conical tips hammered of mild steel, massive shafts of heavy, cheap woods like greenheart, swamp oak, or sycamore, and durable fletching made of thin sections of cherry or pine. They take little to no skill to make, but they do have to be consistently made, so they are all the same size. Despite their low sophistication, nobody can argue that bolts lack in power, and they have won many, many battles.

	Ammo Type	Cost	Sm Dmg	Med Dmg	Large Dmg	Crit	Range	Wt	Type
	Barbed Bolt	5 gp each	1d10	1d12	3d6	19-20 / x2	60 ft	0.25 lbs each	Piercing (physical, common)
	Weapon Qualities: Expendable
	Barbed crossbow bolts are just about the nastiest things you'll ever see. They are stout, brutal devices, whose wicked barbs make the terrible wounds already inflicted by a crossbow much, much worse. Unlike normal bolts, barbed bolts are difficult to make and thus are expensive. They are typically made of the same woods as arrows, although in a thick, strong, graceless fashion, and are often fletched with thin shavings of horn or turtle shell. The massive barbed heads require considerable skill to forge and sharpen. Barbed bolts are heavier than standard bolts, and cannot be fired as far as standard bolts. Pointing a crossbow loaded with a barbed bolt at a someone is a very clear statement that you mean business.

	Ammo Type	Cost	Sm Dmg	Med Dmg	Large Dmg	Crit	Range	Wt	Type
	Blunt Bolt	5 cp each	1d8	1d10	2d8	19-20 / x2	60 ft	0.1 lbs each	Bludgeoning (physical, common)
	Weapon Qualities: Expendable
	Blunt crossbow bolts have the simple conical tip of mild steel replaced by a small round bit of glued-on iron that covers the end of the thick wooden shaft. This means blunt bolts can be made without a blacksmith, just punched out bits of iron. As a result, the cost of blunt crossbow bolts is half that of standard bolts. Blunt bolts weigh the same and do the same amount of damage as regular bolts, although the range is halved. In a hand onager, blunt bolts grant the weapon the Sunder quality at range, since the Hand Onager is also a Siege Weapon.

Martial Projectile Weapons

Longbow				2-Hand Projectile / Martial					[edit]
	Cost	Sm Dmg	Med Dmg	Large Dmg	Crit	Range	Wt	Type
	75 gp	see ammo	see ammo	see ammo	see ammo	see ammo	3 lbs	Piercing (physical, common) or by ammunition
	Weapon Qualities: Non-Melee, Primitive Availability
	The longbow is a large, powerful simple bow, made of a single baulk of the properly selected and cured wood, bone, horn, or other strongly resilient material. They demand exquisite craftsmanship in forming them properly, but they need very little assembly. You need two hands to use any bow, regardless of its size. A longbow is too unwieldy to use while you are mounted. If you have a penalty for low Strength, apply it to damage rolls when you use a longbow. If you have a Strength bonus, however, it is not applied to the longbow's damage. The longbow has been invented many times by different cultures. All large simple bows, regardless of name, are longbows. The longbow belongs to the "Bows" weapon group.

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	Ammo Type	Cost	Sm Dmg	Med Dmg	Large Dmg	Crit	Range	Wt	Type
	Common Arrow	5 cp each	1d6	1d8	2d6	x3	100 ft	0.1 lbs each	Piercing (physical, common)
	Weapon Qualities: Expendable
	Common arrows are standard bow ammunition. They have sturdy diamond points on them, they're shafted with easy to get ash, maple, or willow, and they have reliable goose-feather fletchings. They do a bit less damage in shortbows than they do in longbows, and a bit less damage in longbows than they do in greatbows. A common arrow is denoted by that classic, deadly but easy to make, diamond-shaped point. It's good against armor, it's good against beasts, and it can be made quickly. You'll see these everywhere, and rightly so, because they're great.

	Ammo Type	Cost	Sm Dmg	Med Dmg	Large Dmg	Crit	Range	Wt	Type
	Barbed Arrow	2 gp each	1d4	1d6	1d10	x3	50 ft	0.5 lbs each	Slashing (physical, common)
	Weapon Qualities: Expendable, Weapon Qualities: Special
	The barbed arrow is a specialty product, since making that extravagant head takes a lot of time and skill. Barbed arrows are based off broadhead arrows, with all their characteristics, but they do the same damage as flight arrows. So why bother with them? Because to remove a barbed arrowhead is a deadly and dangerous process. To remove a barbed arrow after you've been struck by one and taken damage past any DR requires greater than animal intelligence and a heal check against an Easy DC. Either the victim or an adjacent creature can attempt to remove barb heads. Failing the heal check means removing the barbed arrow inflicts 1d6 of additional damage which cannot be reduced by DR. Ouch.

	Ammo Type	Cost	Sm Dmg	Med Dmg	Large Dmg	Crit	Range	Wt	Type
	Blunt Arrow	5 sp each	1d6	1d8	2d6	x3	50 ft	0.5 lbs each	Bludgeoning (physical, common)
	Weapon Qualities: Expendable
	Take a broadhead arrow and remove that big, deadly steel point. Replace it with a shaped boiled-leather cup into which a tightly rolled mass of cotton cloth is firmly wedged, presenting the firm, flat side of the roll toward the front of the arrow. What you get is the blunt arrow, which does bludgeoning damage rather than piercing damage. Why would you do this? Well, hunting of some delicate game species is easier with blunt arrows. Blunt arrows have the same construction as broadhead arrows, but to keep that heavy, flat tip pointed right, they suffer a reduced range increment.

	Ammo Type	Cost	Sm Dmg	Med Dmg	Large Dmg	Crit	Range	Wt	Type
	Broadhead Arrow	3 sp each	1d8	1d10	2d8	x3	50 ft	0.25 lbs each	Piercing (physical, common)
	Weapon Qualities: Expendable
	The obvious difference to a broadhead arrow is the head, which is a heavy delta-shaped thing with sharp wings and modest barbs. They have more steel in them than common heads, and the blacksmith has to spend some time on them compared to diamond points. The shaft of the broadhead arrow is made of a dense, heavy wood like buckeye, hickory, or dogwood to maintain the proper spine with that heavy head on it. And instead of three fletchings a broadhead arrow has four, to keep that big-winged head pointed the right direction. As a result, broadheads are expensive, short-ranged, and weigh over twice as much as a standard arrow, but they hit really hard.

	Ammo Type	Cost	Sm Dmg	Med Dmg	Large Dmg	Crit	Range	Wt	Type
	Flaming Arrow	3 gp each	1d4	1d6	1d10	x3	50 ft	0.5 lbs each	Piercing (physical, common)
	Weapon Qualities: Expendable
	Flaming arrows are an age-old terror weapon. Flaming arrows are based off broadheads, as the dense, hardwood shafts are required to allow them to do their fiery work. The massive broadhead is removed and replaced with a small needle-like head with a hole in it. Through the hole is threaded a soft rag of cotton, wool, or linen and the whole thing is soaked in tar and wrapped around the head and top of the shaft. This is allowed to cool into a solid, flammable mass. Lighting a flaming arrow requires a move action and access to a considerable source of flame (larger than a torch, such as a good fire or a brazier). Any amount of magical flame will touch one off, as well. Once lit, a flaming arrow burns for 5 rounds, regardless of wind or rain, although being underwater or doused by a bucket will extinguish it. Flaming arrows do piercing damage as above, as well as 1d4 of fire damage to creatures struck. When fired at flammable structures like cloth wagon covers, thatch roofs, haystacks, etc, they ignite such things automatically the next round unless doused. On light wooden structures they ignite on a 1-2 on a d6 roll. On heavy wooden structures they ignite after three rounds on a roll of 1 on a d10. See the Environmental Effects rules for how to put things out again. Fire Arrows get really scary when you fire a few hundred of them at once....

	Ammo Type	Cost	Sm Dmg	Med Dmg	Large Dmg	Crit	Range	Wt	Type
	Flight Arrow	5 sp each	1d4	1d6	1d10	x3	150 ft	0.05 lbs each	Piercing (physical, common)
	Weapon Qualities: Expendable
	Flight arrows are designed for the maximum possible range. As a result, they use common diamond-tip arrowheads in good quality steel but in very small sizes. The shafts are made of kiln-dried lightweight woods, like alder, fir, spruce, or cedar. And the fletching is small, often made of chicken feathers rather than goose. The result is an arrow that is the same size as a regular arrow but weighs about half as much and is ridiculously streamlined. Flight arrows shoot like lightning, and are what are used in target shooting competitions.

	Ammo Type	Cost	Sm Dmg	Med Dmg	Large Dmg	Crit	Range	Wt	Type
	Whistling Arrow	1 gp each	1d4	1d6	1d10	x3	100 ft	0.1 lbs each	Piercing (physical, common)
	Weapon Qualities: Expendable, Audible
	Take a common arrow, replace that simple but elegant diamond point with a whistling cage made of bent rod, and you create a whistling arrow. These are audible in flight to a distance of 50 feet from the path of their flight, so they're pretty darn loud. They make a distinctive falling shriek as they fly that sounds eerie, especially if you get a few hundred going all at once. Great fun, but expensive. Whistling arrows even do reasonable damage, since they have a functional chisel point atop the whistling cage.

Composite Longbow				2-Hand Projectile / Martial					[edit]
	Cost	Sm Dmg	Med Dmg	Large Dmg	Crit	Range	Wt	Type
	100 gp	see ammo	see ammo	see ammo	see ammo	see ammo	3 lbs	Piercing (physical, common) or by ammunition
	Weapon Qualities: Mighty, Non-Melee
	The composite longbow is a large complex bow whose limbs are built up of various materials, usually in a recurve shape. You need at least two hands to use a bow, regardless of its size. You can use a composite longbow while mounted. All composite bows are made with a particular strength rating (that is, each requires a minimum Strength modifier to use with proficiency). If your Strength bonus is less than the strength rating of the composite bow, you can't effectively use it, so you take a -2 penalty to-hit on attacks with it, per plus of Strength modifier greater than your own. The default composite longbow requires a Strength modifier of +0 or higher to use with proficiency. A composite longbow can be made with a high strength rating to take advantage of an above-average Strength score; this feature allows you to add your Strength bonus to damage, up to the maximum bonus indicated for the bow. Each point of Strength bonus granted by the bow adds 100 gp to its cost. If you have a penalty for low Strength, you apply it to damage rolls when you use a composite longbow, in addition to the to-hit penalty for insufficient Strength. For purposes of Weapon Proficiency and similar feats, a composite longbow is treated as if it were a longbow. The composite longbow belongs to the "Bows" weapon group.

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	Ammo Type	Cost	Sm Dmg	Med Dmg	Large Dmg	Crit	Range	Wt	Type
	Common Arrow	5 cp each	1d6	1d8	2d6	x3	100 ft	0.1 lbs each	Piercing (physical, common)
	Weapon Qualities: Expendable
	Common arrows are standard bow ammunition. They have sturdy diamond points on them, they're shafted with easy to get ash, maple, or willow, and they have reliable goose-feather fletchings. They do a bit less damage in shortbows than they do in longbows, and a bit less damage in longbows than they do in greatbows. A common arrow is denoted by that classic, deadly but easy to make, diamond-shaped point. It's good against armor, it's good against beasts, and it can be made quickly. You'll see these everywhere, and rightly so, because they're great.

	Ammo Type	Cost	Sm Dmg	Med Dmg	Large Dmg	Crit	Range	Wt	Type
	Barbed Arrow	2 gp each	1d4	1d6	1d10	x3	50 ft	0.5 lbs each	Slashing (physical, common)
	Weapon Qualities: Expendable, Weapon Qualities: Special
	The barbed arrow is a specialty product, since making that extravagant head takes a lot of time and skill. Barbed arrows are based off broadhead arrows, with all their characteristics, but they do the same damage as flight arrows. So why bother with them? Because to remove a barbed arrowhead is a deadly and dangerous process. To remove a barbed arrow after you've been struck by one and taken damage past any DR requires greater than animal intelligence and a heal check against an Easy DC. Either the victim or an adjacent creature can attempt to remove barb heads. Failing the heal check means removing the barbed arrow inflicts 1d6 of additional damage which cannot be reduced by DR. Ouch.

	Ammo Type	Cost	Sm Dmg	Med Dmg	Large Dmg	Crit	Range	Wt	Type
	Blunt Arrow	5 sp each	1d6	1d8	2d6	x3	50 ft	0.5 lbs each	Bludgeoning (physical, common)
	Weapon Qualities: Expendable
	Take a broadhead arrow and remove that big, deadly steel point. Replace it with a shaped boiled-leather cup into which a tightly rolled mass of cotton cloth is firmly wedged, presenting the firm, flat side of the roll toward the front of the arrow. What you get is the blunt arrow, which does bludgeoning damage rather than piercing damage. Why would you do this? Well, hunting of some delicate game species is easier with blunt arrows. Blunt arrows have the same construction as broadhead arrows, but to keep that heavy, flat tip pointed right, they suffer a reduced range increment.

	Ammo Type	Cost	Sm Dmg	Med Dmg	Large Dmg	Crit	Range	Wt	Type
	Broadhead Arrow	3 sp each	1d8	1d10	2d8	x3	50 ft	0.25 lbs each	Piercing (physical, common)
	Weapon Qualities: Expendable
	The obvious difference to a broadhead arrow is the head, which is a heavy delta-shaped thing with sharp wings and modest barbs. They have more steel in them than common heads, and the blacksmith has to spend some time on them compared to diamond points. The shaft of the broadhead arrow is made of a dense, heavy wood like buckeye, hickory, or dogwood to maintain the proper spine with that heavy head on it. And instead of three fletchings a broadhead arrow has four, to keep that big-winged head pointed the right direction. As a result, broadheads are expensive, short-ranged, and weigh over twice as much as a standard arrow, but they hit really hard.

	Ammo Type	Cost	Sm Dmg	Med Dmg	Large Dmg	Crit	Range	Wt	Type
	Flaming Arrow	3 gp each	1d4	1d6	1d10	x3	50 ft	0.5 lbs each	Piercing (physical, common)
	Weapon Qualities: Expendable
	Flaming arrows are an age-old terror weapon. Flaming arrows are based off broadheads, as the dense, hardwood shafts are required to allow them to do their fiery work. The massive broadhead is removed and replaced with a small needle-like head with a hole in it. Through the hole is threaded a soft rag of cotton, wool, or linen and the whole thing is soaked in tar and wrapped around the head and top of the shaft. This is allowed to cool into a solid, flammable mass. Lighting a flaming arrow requires a move action and access to a considerable source of flame (larger than a torch, such as a good fire or a brazier). Any amount of magical flame will touch one off, as well. Once lit, a flaming arrow burns for 5 rounds, regardless of wind or rain, although being underwater or doused by a bucket will extinguish it. Flaming arrows do piercing damage as above, as well as 1d4 of fire damage to creatures struck. When fired at flammable structures like cloth wagon covers, thatch roofs, haystacks, etc, they ignite such things automatically the next round unless doused. On light wooden structures they ignite on a 1-2 on a d6 roll. On heavy wooden structures they ignite after three rounds on a roll of 1 on a d10. See the Environmental Effects rules for how to put things out again. Fire Arrows get really scary when you fire a few hundred of them at once....

	Ammo Type	Cost	Sm Dmg	Med Dmg	Large Dmg	Crit	Range	Wt	Type
	Flight Arrow	5 sp each	1d4	1d6	1d10	x3	150 ft	0.05 lbs each	Piercing (physical, common)
	Weapon Qualities: Expendable
	Flight arrows are designed for the maximum possible range. As a result, they use common diamond-tip arrowheads in good quality steel but in very small sizes. The shafts are made of kiln-dried lightweight woods, like alder, fir, spruce, or cedar. And the fletching is small, often made of chicken feathers rather than goose. The result is an arrow that is the same size as a regular arrow but weighs about half as much and is ridiculously streamlined. Flight arrows shoot like lightning, and are what are used in target shooting competitions.

	Ammo Type	Cost	Sm Dmg	Med Dmg	Large Dmg	Crit	Range	Wt	Type
	Whistling Arrow	1 gp each	1d4	1d6	1d10	x3	100 ft	0.1 lbs each	Piercing (physical, common)
	Weapon Qualities: Expendable, Audible
	Take a common arrow, replace that simple but elegant diamond point with a whistling cage made of bent rod, and you create a whistling arrow. These are audible in flight to a distance of 50 feet from the path of their flight, so they're pretty darn loud. They make a distinctive falling shriek as they fly that sounds eerie, especially if you get a few hundred going all at once. Great fun, but expensive. Whistling arrows even do reasonable damage, since they have a functional chisel point atop the whistling cage.

Shortbow				2-Hand Projectile / Martial					[edit]
	Cost	Sm Dmg	Med Dmg	Large Dmg	Crit	Range	Wt	Type
	30 gp	see ammo	see ammo	see ammo	see ammo	see ammo	2 lbs	Piercing (physical, common) or by ammunition
	Weapon Qualities: Non-Melee, Primitive Availability
	The shortbow is a compact simple bow, made of a single baulk of the properly selected and cured wood, bone, horn, or other strongly resilient material. They demand exquisite craftsmanship in forming them properly, but they need very little assembly. You need two hands to use any bow, regardless of its size. A shortbow is compact enough to use while you are mounted. If you have a penalty for low Strength, apply it to damage rolls when you use a longbow. However, if you have a Strength bonus, it is not applied to the shortbow's damage. The shortbow has been invented many times by different cultures. All small simple bows, regardless of name, are shortbows. The shortbow belongs to the "Bows" weapon group.

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	Ammo Type	Cost	Sm Dmg	Med Dmg	Large Dmg	Crit	Range	Wt	Type
	Common Arrow	5 cp each	1d4	1d6	1d10	x3	60 ft	0.1 lbs each	Piercing (physical, common)
	Weapon Qualities: Expendable
	Common arrows are standard bow ammunition. They have sturdy diamond points on them, they're shafted with easy to get ash, maple, or willow, and they have reliable goose-feather fletchings. They do a bit less damage in shortbows than they do in longbows, and a bit less damage in longbows than they do in greatbows. A common arrow is denoted by that classic, deadly but easy to make, diamond-shaped point. It's good against armor, it's good against beasts, and it can be made quickly. You'll see these everywhere, and rightly so, because they're great.

	Ammo Type	Cost	Sm Dmg	Med Dmg	Large Dmg	Crit	Range	Wt	Type
	Barbed Arrow	2 gp each	1d3	1d4	1d8	x3	30 ft	0.5 lbs each	Slashing (physical, common)
	Weapon Qualities: Expendable, Weapon Qualities: Special
	The barbed arrow is a specialty product, since making that extravagant head takes a lot of time and skill. Barbed arrows are based off broadhead arrows, with all their characteristics, but they do the same damage as flight arrows. So why bother with them? Because to remove a barbed arrowhead is a deadly and dangerous process. To remove a barbed arrow after you've been struck by one and taken damage past any DR requires greater than animal intelligence and a heal check against an Easy DC. Either the victim or an adjacent creature can attempt to remove barb heads. Failing the heal check means removing the barbed arrow inflicts 1d6 of additional damage which cannot be reduced by DR. Ouch.

	Ammo Type	Cost	Sm Dmg	Med Dmg	Large Dmg	Crit	Range	Wt	Type
	Blunt Arrow	5 sp each	1d4	1d6	1d10	x3	30 ft	0.5 lbs each	Bludgeoning (physical, common)
	Weapon Qualities: Expendable
	Take a broadhead arrow and remove that big, deadly steel point. Replace it with a shaped boiled-leather cup into which a tightly rolled mass of cotton cloth is firmly wedged, presenting the firm, flat side of the roll toward the front of the arrow. What you get is the blunt arrow, which does bludgeoning damage rather than piercing damage. Why would you do this? Well, hunting of some delicate game species is easier with blunt arrows. Blunt arrows have the same construction as broadhead arrows, but to keep that heavy, flat tip pointed right, they suffer a reduced range increment.

	Ammo Type	Cost	Sm Dmg	Med Dmg	Large Dmg	Crit	Range	Wt	Type
	Broadhead Arrow	3 sp each	1d6	1d8	2d6	x3	30 ft	0.25 lbs each	Piercing (physical, common)
	Weapon Qualities: Expendable
	The obvious difference to a broadhead arrow is the head, which is a heavy delta-shaped thing with sharp wings and modest barbs. They have more steel in them than common heads, and the blacksmith has to spend some time on them compared to diamond points. The shaft of the broadhead arrow is made of a dense, heavy wood like buckeye, hickory, or dogwood to maintain the proper spine with that heavy head on it. And instead of three fletchings a broadhead arrow has four, to keep that big-winged head pointed the right direction. As a result, broadheads are expensive, short-ranged, and weigh over twice as much as a standard arrow, but they hit really hard.

	Ammo Type	Cost	Sm Dmg	Med Dmg	Large Dmg	Crit	Range	Wt	Type
	Flaming Arrow	3 gp each	1d3	1d4	1d8	x3	30 ft	0.5 lbs each	Piercing (physical, common)
	Weapon Qualities: Expendable
	Flaming arrows are an age-old terror weapon. Flaming arrows are based off broadheads, as the dense, hardwood shafts are required to allow them to do their fiery work. The massive broadhead is removed and replaced with a small needle-like head with a hole in it. Through the hole is threaded a soft rag of cotton, wool, or linen and the whole thing is soaked in tar and wrapped around the head and top of the shaft. This is allowed to cool into a solid, flammable mass. Lighting a flaming arrow requires a move action and access to a considerable source of flame (larger than a torch, such as a good fire or a brazier). Any amount of magical flame will touch one off, as well. Once lit, a flaming arrow burns for 5 rounds, regardless of wind or rain, although being underwater or doused by a bucket will extinguish it. Flaming arrows do piercing damage as above, as well as 1d4 of fire damage to creatures struck. When fired at flammable structures like cloth wagon covers, thatch roofs, haystacks, etc, they ignite such things automatically the next round unless doused. On light wooden structures they ignite on a 1-2 on a d6 roll. On heavy wooden structures they ignite after three rounds on a roll of 1 on a d10. See the Environmental Effects rules for how to put things out again. Fire Arrows get really scary when you fire a few hundred of them at once....

	Ammo Type	Cost	Sm Dmg	Med Dmg	Large Dmg	Crit	Range	Wt	Type
	Flight Arrow	5 sp each	1d3	1d4	1d8	x3	90 ft	0.05 lbs each	Piercing (physical, common)
	Weapon Qualities: Expendable
	Flight arrows are designed for the maximum possible range. As a result, they use common diamond-tip arrowheads in good quality steel but in very small sizes. The shafts are made of kiln-dried lightweight woods, like alder, fir, spruce, or cedar. And the fletching is small, often made of chicken feathers rather than goose. The result is an arrow that is the same size as a regular arrow but weighs about half as much and is ridiculously streamlined. Flight arrows shoot like lightning, and are what are used in target shooting competitions.

	Ammo Type	Cost	Sm Dmg	Med Dmg	Large Dmg	Crit	Range	Wt	Type
	Whistling Arrow	1 gp each	1d3	1d4	1d8	x3	60 ft	0.1 lbs each	Piercing (physical, common)
	Weapon Qualities: Expendable, Audible
	Take a common arrow, replace that simple but elegant diamond point with a whistling cage made of bent rod, and you create a whistling arrow. These are audible in flight to a distance of 50 feet from the path of their flight, so they're pretty darn loud. They make a distinctive falling shriek as they fly that sounds eerie, especially if you get a few hundred going all at once. Great fun, but expensive. Whistling arrows even do reasonable damage, since they have a functional chisel point atop the whistling cage.

Composite Shortbow				2-Hand Projectile / Martial					[edit]
	Cost	Sm Dmg	Med Dmg	Large Dmg	Crit	Range	Wt	Type
	75 gp	see ammo	see ammo	see ammo	see ammo	see ammo	2 lbs	Piercing (physical, common) or by ammunition
	Weapon Qualities: Mighty, Non-Melee
	The composite shortbow is a small but complex bow whose limbs are built up of various materials, usually in a recurve shape. You need at least two hands to use any bow, regardless of its size. You can use a composite shortbow while mounted. All composite bows are made with a particular strength rating (that is, each requires a minimum Strength modifier to use with proficiency). If your Strength bonus is less than the strength rating of the composite bow, you can't effectively use it, so you take a -2 penalty to-hit on attacks with it, per plus of Strength modifier greater than your own. The default composite bow requires a Strength modifier of +0 or higher to use with proficiency. A composite shortbow can be made with a high strength rating to take advantage of an above-average Strength score; this feature allows you to add your Strength bonus to damage, up to the maximum bonus indicated for the bow. Each point of Strength bonus granted by the bow adds 75 gp to its cost. If you have a penalty for low Strength, apply it to damage rolls when you use a composite shortbow, in addition to the to-hit penalty for insufficient Strength. For purposes of Weapon Proficiency and similar feats, a composite shortbow is treated as if it were a shortbow. The composite shortbow belongs to the "Bows" weapon group.

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	Ammo Type	Cost	Sm Dmg	Med Dmg	Large Dmg	Crit	Range	Wt	Type
	Common Arrow	5 cp each	1d4	1d6	1d10	x3	60 ft	0.1 lbs each	Piercing (physical, common)
	Weapon Qualities: Expendable
	Common arrows are standard bow ammunition. They have sturdy diamond points on them, they're shafted with easy to get ash, maple, or willow, and they have reliable goose-feather fletchings. They do a bit less damage in shortbows than they do in longbows, and a bit less damage in longbows than they do in greatbows. A common arrow is denoted by that classic, deadly but easy to make, diamond-shaped point. It's good against armor, it's good against beasts, and it can be made quickly. You'll see these everywhere, and rightly so, because they're great.

	Ammo Type	Cost	Sm Dmg	Med Dmg	Large Dmg	Crit	Range	Wt	Type
	Barbed Arrow	2 gp each	1d3	1d4	1d8	x3	30 ft	0.5 lbs each	Slashing (physical, common)
	Weapon Qualities: Expendable, Weapon Qualities: Special
	The barbed arrow is a specialty product, since making that extravagant head takes a lot of time and skill. Barbed arrows are based off broadhead arrows, with all their characteristics, but they do the same damage as flight arrows. So why bother with them? Because to remove a barbed arrowhead is a deadly and dangerous process. To remove a barbed arrow after you've been struck by one and taken damage past any DR requires greater than animal intelligence and a heal check against an Easy DC. Either the victim or an adjacent creature can attempt to remove barb heads. Failing the heal check means removing the barbed arrow inflicts 1d6 of additional damage which cannot be reduced by DR. Ouch.

	Ammo Type	Cost	Sm Dmg	Med Dmg	Large Dmg	Crit	Range	Wt	Type
	Blunt Arrow	5 sp each	1d4	1d6	1d10	x3	30 ft	0.5 lbs each	Bludgeoning (physical, common)
	Weapon Qualities: Expendable
	Take a broadhead arrow and remove that big, deadly steel point. Replace it with a shaped boiled-leather cup into which a tightly rolled mass of cotton cloth is firmly wedged, presenting the firm, flat side of the roll toward the front of the arrow. What you get is the blunt arrow, which does bludgeoning damage rather than piercing damage. Why would you do this? Well, hunting of some delicate game species is easier with blunt arrows. Blunt arrows have the same construction as broadhead arrows, but to keep that heavy, flat tip pointed right, they suffer a reduced range increment.

	Ammo Type	Cost	Sm Dmg	Med Dmg	Large Dmg	Crit	Range	Wt	Type
	Broadhead Arrow	3 sp each	1d6	1d8	2d6	x3	30 ft	0.25 lbs each	Piercing (physical, common)
	Weapon Qualities: Expendable
	The obvious difference to a broadhead arrow is the head, which is a heavy delta-shaped thing with sharp wings and modest barbs. They have more steel in them than common heads, and the blacksmith has to spend some time on them compared to diamond points. The shaft of the broadhead arrow is made of a dense, heavy wood like buckeye, hickory, or dogwood to maintain the proper spine with that heavy head on it. And instead of three fletchings a broadhead arrow has four, to keep that big-winged head pointed the right direction. As a result, broadheads are expensive, short-ranged, and weigh over twice as much as a standard arrow, but they hit really hard.

	Ammo Type	Cost	Sm Dmg	Med Dmg	Large Dmg	Crit	Range	Wt	Type
	Flaming Arrow	3 gp each	1d3	1d4	1d8	x3	30 ft	0.5 lbs each	Piercing (physical, common)
	Weapon Qualities: Expendable
	Flaming arrows are an age-old terror weapon. Flaming arrows are based off broadheads, as the dense, hardwood shafts are required to allow them to do their fiery work. The massive broadhead is removed and replaced with a small needle-like head with a hole in it. Through the hole is threaded a soft rag of cotton, wool, or linen and the whole thing is soaked in tar and wrapped around the head and top of the shaft. This is allowed to cool into a solid, flammable mass. Lighting a flaming arrow requires a move action and access to a considerable source of flame (larger than a torch, such as a good fire or a brazier). Any amount of magical flame will touch one off, as well. Once lit, a flaming arrow burns for 5 rounds, regardless of wind or rain, although being underwater or doused by a bucket will extinguish it. Flaming arrows do piercing damage as above, as well as 1d4 of fire damage to creatures struck. When fired at flammable structures like cloth wagon covers, thatch roofs, haystacks, etc, they ignite such things automatically the next round unless doused. On light wooden structures they ignite on a 1-2 on a d6 roll. On heavy wooden structures they ignite after three rounds on a roll of 1 on a d10. See the Environmental Effects rules for how to put things out again. Fire Arrows get really scary when you fire a few hundred of them at once....

	Ammo Type	Cost	Sm Dmg	Med Dmg	Large Dmg	Crit	Range	Wt	Type
	Flight Arrow	5 sp each	1d3	1d4	1d8	x3	90 ft	0.05 lbs each	Piercing (physical, common)
	Weapon Qualities: Expendable
	Flight arrows are designed for the maximum possible range. As a result, they use common diamond-tip arrowheads in good quality steel but in very small sizes. The shafts are made of kiln-dried lightweight woods, like alder, fir, spruce, or cedar. And the fletching is small, often made of chicken feathers rather than goose. The result is an arrow that is the same size as a regular arrow but weighs about half as much and is ridiculously streamlined. Flight arrows shoot like lightning, and are what are used in target shooting competitions.

	Ammo Type	Cost	Sm Dmg	Med Dmg	Large Dmg	Crit	Range	Wt	Type
	Whistling Arrow	1 gp each	1d3	1d4	1d8	x3	60 ft	0.1 lbs each	Piercing (physical, common)
	Weapon Qualities: Expendable, Audible
	Take a common arrow, replace that simple but elegant diamond point with a whistling cage made of bent rod, and you create a whistling arrow. These are audible in flight to a distance of 50 feet from the path of their flight, so they're pretty darn loud. They make a distinctive falling shriek as they fly that sounds eerie, especially if you get a few hundred going all at once. Great fun, but expensive. Whistling arrows even do reasonable damage, since they have a functional chisel point atop the whistling cage.

Exotic Projectile Weapons

Hand Crossbow				Light Projectile / Exotic					[edit]
	Cost	Sm Dmg	Med Dmg	Large Dmg	Crit	Range	Wt	Type
	100 gp	see ammo	see ammo	see ammo	see ammo	see ammo	2 lbs	Piercing (physical, common) or by ammunition
	Weapon Qualities: Mighty, Non-Melee
	A hand crossbow is a very small crossbow, typically intended to be fired early in a combat and discarded, to be retrieved and loaded after the fight ends. They are favored by drow as a means of delivering poisons. You can draw back the action of a hand crossbow by hand. You can shoot, but not load, a hand crossbow with one hand at no penalty. You can shoot a hand crossbow with each hand, but you take a penalty on attack rolls as if attacking with two light weapons. Hand crossbows can be purchased in higher draw weights to match the Strength bonus of the wielder. This costs 25 gp per Strength mod plus added. Load: Loading a hand crossbow can be performed with either a move action or an attack action. The reload time can be reduced by taking the Rapid Reload (Feat). The hand crossbow belongs to the "Crossbows" weapon group.

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	Ammo Type	Cost	Sm Dmg	Med Dmg	Large Dmg	Crit	Range	Wt	Type
	Crossbow Bolt	1 sp each	1d3	1d4	1d8	19-20 / x2	30 ft	0.1 lbs each	Piercing (physical, common)
	Weapon Qualities: Expendable
	Crossbow bolts are thick, graceless things compared to arrows. In keeping with the simplicity of the crossbow, the bolts are not sophisticated, either. Arrows must be carefully made with just the right amount of flex, or spine, in the long, slim shafts. Bolts are far too thick and short to flex, even under the brutal firing conditions of heavy crossbows or hand onagers. Bolts have simple conical tips hammered of mild steel, massive shafts of heavy, cheap woods like greenheart, swamp oak, or sycamore, and durable fletching made of thin sections of cherry or pine. They take little to no skill to make, but they do have to be consistently made, so they are all the same size. Despite their low sophistication, nobody can argue that bolts lack in power, and they have won many, many battles.

	Ammo Type	Cost	Sm Dmg	Med Dmg	Large Dmg	Crit	Range	Wt	Type
	Barbed Bolt	5 gp each	1d4	1d6	1d10	19-20 / x2	20 ft	0.25 lbs each	Piercing (physical, common)
	Weapon Qualities: Expendable
	Barbed crossbow bolts are just about the nastiest things you'll ever see. They are stout, brutal devices, whose wicked barbs make the terrible wounds already inflicted by a crossbow much, much worse. Unlike normal bolts, barbed bolts are difficult to make and thus are expensive. They are typically made of the same woods as arrows, although in a thick, strong, graceless fashion, and are often fletched with thin shavings of horn or turtle shell. The massive barbed heads require considerable skill to forge and sharpen. Barbed bolts are heavier than standard bolts, and cannot be fired as far as standard bolts. Pointing a crossbow loaded with a barbed bolt at a someone is a very clear statement that you mean business.

	Ammo Type	Cost	Sm Dmg	Med Dmg	Large Dmg	Crit	Range	Wt	Type
	Blunt Bolt	5 cp each	1d3	1d4	1d8	19-20 / x2	15 ft	0.1 lbs each	Bludgeoning (physical, common)
	Weapon Qualities: Expendable
	Blunt crossbow bolts have the simple conical tip of mild steel replaced by a small round bit of glued-on iron that covers the end of the thick wooden shaft. This means blunt bolts can be made without a blacksmith, just punched out bits of iron. As a result, the cost of blunt crossbow bolts is half that of standard bolts. Blunt bolts weigh the same and do the same amount of damage as regular bolts, although the range is halved. In a hand onager, blunt bolts grant the weapon the Sunder quality at range, since the Hand Onager is also a Siege Weapon.

Greatbow				2-Hand Projectile / Exotic					[edit]
	Cost	Sm Dmg	Med Dmg	Large Dmg	Crit	Range	Wt	Type
	150 gp	1d8	1d10	2d8	x3	120 ft	6 lbs	Piercing or by ammunition
	Weapon Qualities: Non-Melee
	The greatbow is a rare but extremely powerful weapon. Also called a double bow or war bow, the greatbow is physically not much larger than a longbow. However, because of the exotic double-limbed design, the greatbow has a much heavier draw weight and a considerably longer draw than a longbow of equal size, while the limb speed is considerably higher, since thinner, more responsive limbs can be used. Since a greatbow must be drawn back further than a longbow (usually to the point of the jaw or even further), it requires an exotic weapon proficiency to use properly. The greatbow belongs to the "Bows" weapon group.

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	Ammo Type	Cost	Sm Dmg	Med Dmg	Large Dmg	Crit	Range	Wt	Type
	Common Arrow	5 cp each	1d8	1d10	1d8	x3	120 ft	0.1 lbs each	Piercing (physical, common)
	Weapon Qualities: Expendable
	Common arrows are standard bow ammunition. They have sturdy diamond points on them, they're shafted with easy to get ash, maple, or willow, and they have reliable goose-feather fletchings. They do a bit less damage in shortbows than they do in longbows, and a bit less damage in longbows than they do in greatbows. A common arrow is denoted by that classic, deadly but easy to make, diamond-shaped point. It's good against armor, it's good against beasts, and it can be made quickly. You'll see these everywhere, and rightly so, because they're great.

	Ammo Type	Cost	Sm Dmg	Med Dmg	Large Dmg	Crit	Range	Wt	Type
	Barbed Arrow	2 gp each	1d6	1d8	2d6	x3	60 ft	0.5 lbs each	Slashing (physical, common)
	Weapon Qualities: Expendable, Weapon Qualities: Special
	The barbed arrow is a specialty product, since making that extravagant head takes a lot of time and skill. Barbed arrows are based off broadhead arrows, with all their characteristics, but they do the same damage as flight arrows. So why bother with them? Because to remove a barbed arrowhead is a deadly and dangerous process. To remove a barbed arrow after you've been struck by one and taken damage past any DR requires greater than animal intelligence and a heal check against an Easy DC. Either the victim or an adjacent creature can attempt to remove barb heads. Failing the heal check means removing the barbed arrow inflicts 1d6 of additional damage which cannot be reduced by DR. Ouch.

	Ammo Type	Cost	Sm Dmg	Med Dmg	Large Dmg	Crit	Range	Wt	Type
	Blunt Arrow	5 sp each	1d8	1d10	2d8	x3	60 ft	0.5 lbs each	Bludgeoning (physical, common)
	Weapon Qualities: Expendable
	Take a broadhead arrow and remove that big, deadly steel point. Replace it with a shaped boiled-leather cup into which a tightly rolled mass of cotton cloth is firmly wedged, presenting the firm, flat side of the roll toward the front of the arrow. What you get is the blunt arrow, which does bludgeoning damage rather than piercing damage. Why would you do this? Well, hunting of some delicate game species is easier with blunt arrows. Blunt arrows have the same construction as broadhead arrows, but to keep that heavy, flat tip pointed right, they suffer a reduced range increment.

	Ammo Type	Cost	Sm Dmg	Med Dmg	Large Dmg	Crit	Range	Wt	Type
	Broadhead Arrow	3 sp each	1d10	1d12	3d6	x3	60 ft	0.25 lbs each	Piercing (physical, common)
	Weapon Qualities: Expendable
	The obvious difference to a broadhead arrow is the head, which is a heavy delta-shaped thing with sharp wings and modest barbs. They have more steel in them than common heads, and the blacksmith has to spend some time on them compared to diamond points. The shaft of the broadhead arrow is made of a dense, heavy wood like buckeye, hickory, or dogwood to maintain the proper spine with that heavy head on it. And instead of three fletchings a broadhead arrow has four, to keep that big-winged head pointed the right direction. As a result, broadheads are expensive, short-ranged, and weigh over twice as much as a standard arrow, but they hit really hard.

	Ammo Type	Cost	Sm Dmg	Med Dmg	Large Dmg	Crit	Range	Wt	Type
	Flaming Arrow	3 gp each	1d6	1d8	2d6	x3	60 ft	0.5 lbs each	Piercing (physical, common)
	Weapon Qualities: Expendable, Special
	Flaming arrows are an age-old terror weapon. Flaming arrows are based off broadheads, as the dense, hardwood shafts are required to allow them to do their fiery work. The massive broadhead is removed and replaced with a small needle-like head with a hole in it. Through the hole is threaded a soft rag of cotton, wool, or linen and the whole thing is soaked in tar and wrapped around the head and top of the shaft. This is allowed to cool into a solid, flammable mass. Lighting a flaming arrow requires a move action and access to a considerable source of flame (larger than a torch, such as a good fire or a brazier). Any amount of magical flame will touch one off, as well. Once lit, a flaming arrow burns for 5 rounds, regardless of wind or rain, although being underwater or doused by a bucket will extinguish it. Flaming arrows do piercing damage as above, as well as 1d4 of fire damage to creatures struck. When fired at flammable structures like cloth wagon covers, thatch roofs, haystacks, etc, they ignite such things automatically the next round unless doused. On light wooden structures they ignite on a 1-2 on a d6 roll. On heavy wooden structures they ignite after three rounds on a roll of 1 on a d10. See the Environmental Effects rules for how to put things out again. Fire Arrows get really scary when you fire a few hundred of them at once....

	Ammo Type	Cost	Sm Dmg	Med Dmg	Large Dmg	Crit	Range	Wt	Type
	Flight Arrow	5 sp each	1d6	1d8	2d6	x3	160 ft	0.05 lbs each	Piercing (physical, common)
	Weapon Qualities: Expendable
	Flight arrows are designed for the maximum possible range. As a result, they use common diamond-tip arrowheads in good quality steel but in very small sizes. The shafts are made of kiln-dried lightweight woods, like alder, fir, spruce, or cedar. And the fletching is small, often made of chicken feathers rather than goose. The result is an arrow that is the same size as a regular arrow but weighs about half as much and is ridiculously streamlined. Flight arrows shoot like lightning, and are what are used in target shooting competitions.

	Ammo Type	Cost	Sm Dmg	Med Dmg	Large Dmg	Crit	Range	Wt	Type
	Whistling Arrow	1 gp each	1d6	1d8	2d6	x3	120 ft	0.1 lbs each	Piercing (physical, common)
	Weapon Qualities: Expendable, Audible
	Take a common arrow, replace that simple but elegant diamond point with a whistling cage made of bent rod, and you create a whistling arrow. These are audible in flight to a distance of 50 feet from the path of their flight, so they're pretty darn loud. They make a distinctive falling shriek as they fly that sounds eerie, especially if you get a few hundred going all at once. Great fun, but expensive. Whistling arrows even do reasonable damage, since they have a functional chisel point atop the whistling cage.

Composite Greatbow				2-Hand Projectile / Exotic					[edit]
	Cost	Sm Dmg	Med Dmg	Large Dmg	Crit	Range	Wt	Type
	200 gp	see ammo	see ammo	see ammo	see ammo	see ammo	6 lbs	Piercing (physical, common) or by ammunition
	Weapon Qualities: Mighty, Non-Melee
	This is the composite version of the greatbow. Adjust cost per composite longbow, +200 gp per point of Strength mod applied to damage. For the purposes of any feats or abilities, the composite greatbow counts as a greatbow. The composite greatbow belongs to the "Bows" weapon group.

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	Ammo Type	Cost	Sm Dmg	Med Dmg	Large Dmg	Crit	Range	Wt	Type
	Common Arrow	5 cp each	1d8	1d10	1d8	x3	120 ft	0.1 lbs each	Piercing (physical, common)
	Weapon Qualities: Expendable
	Common arrows are standard bow ammunition. They have sturdy diamond points on them, they're shafted with easy to get ash, maple, or willow, and they have reliable goose-feather fletchings. They do a bit less damage in shortbows than they do in longbows, and a bit less damage in longbows than they do in greatbows. A common arrow is denoted by that classic, deadly but easy to make, diamond-shaped point. It's good against armor, it's good against beasts, and it can be made quickly. You'll see these everywhere, and rightly so, because they're great.

	Ammo Type	Cost	Sm Dmg	Med Dmg	Large Dmg	Crit	Range	Wt	Type
	Barbed Arrow	2 gp each	1d6	1d8	2d6	x3	60 ft	0.5 lbs each	Slashing (physical, common)
	Weapon Qualities: Expendable, Weapon Qualities: Special
	The barbed arrow is a specialty product, since making that extravagant head takes a lot of time and skill. Barbed arrows are based off broadhead arrows, with all their characteristics, but they do the same damage as flight arrows. So why bother with them? Because to remove a barbed arrowhead is a deadly and dangerous process. To remove a barbed arrow after you've been struck by one and taken damage past any DR requires greater than animal intelligence and a heal check against an Easy DC. Either the victim or an adjacent creature can attempt to remove barb heads. Failing the heal check means removing the barbed arrow inflicts 1d6 of additional damage which cannot be reduced by DR. Ouch.

	Ammo Type	Cost	Sm Dmg	Med Dmg	Large Dmg	Crit	Range	Wt	Type
	Blunt Arrow	5 sp each	1d8	1d10	2d8	x3	60 ft	0.5 lbs each	Bludgeoning (physical, common)
	Weapon Qualities: Expendable
	Take a broadhead arrow and remove that big, deadly steel point. Replace it with a shaped boiled-leather cup into which a tightly rolled mass of cotton cloth is firmly wedged, presenting the firm, flat side of the roll toward the front of the arrow. What you get is the blunt arrow, which does bludgeoning damage rather than piercing damage. Why would you do this? Well, hunting of some delicate game species is easier with blunt arrows. Blunt arrows have the same construction as broadhead arrows, but to keep that heavy, flat tip pointed right, they suffer a reduced range increment.

	Ammo Type	Cost	Sm Dmg	Med Dmg	Large Dmg	Crit	Range	Wt	Type
	Broadhead Arrow	3 sp each	1d10	1d12	3d6	x3	60 ft	0.25 lbs each	Piercing (physical, common)
	Weapon Qualities: Expendable
	The obvious difference to a broadhead arrow is the head, which is a heavy delta-shaped thing with sharp wings and modest barbs. They have more steel in them than common heads, and the blacksmith has to spend some time on them compared to diamond points. The shaft of the broadhead arrow is made of a dense, heavy wood like buckeye, hickory, or dogwood to maintain the proper spine with that heavy head on it. And instead of three fletchings a broadhead arrow has four, to keep that big-winged head pointed the right direction. As a result, broadheads are expensive, short-ranged, and weigh over twice as much as a standard arrow, but they hit really hard.

	Ammo Type	Cost	Sm Dmg	Med Dmg	Large Dmg	Crit	Range	Wt	Type
	Flaming Arrow	3 gp each	1d6	1d8	2d6	x3	60 ft	0.5 lbs each	Piercing (physical, common)
	Weapon Qualities: Expendable, Special
	Flaming arrows are an age-old terror weapon. Flaming arrows are based off broadheads, as the dense, hardwood shafts are required to allow them to do their fiery work. The massive broadhead is removed and replaced with a small needle-like head with a hole in it. Through the hole is threaded a soft rag of cotton, wool, or linen and the whole thing is soaked in tar and wrapped around the head and top of the shaft. This is allowed to cool into a solid, flammable mass. Lighting a flaming arrow requires a move action and access to a considerable source of flame (larger than a torch, such as a good fire or a brazier). Any amount of magical flame will touch one off, as well. Once lit, a flaming arrow burns for 5 rounds, regardless of wind or rain, although being underwater or doused by a bucket will extinguish it. Flaming arrows do piercing damage as above, as well as 1d4 of fire damage to creatures struck. When fired at flammable structures like cloth wagon covers, thatch roofs, haystacks, etc, they ignite such things automatically the next round unless doused. On light wooden structures they ignite on a 1-2 on a d6 roll. On heavy wooden structures they ignite after three rounds on a roll of 1 on a d10. See the Environmental Effects rules for how to put things out again. Fire Arrows get really scary when you fire a few hundred of them at once....

	Ammo Type	Cost	Sm Dmg	Med Dmg	Large Dmg	Crit	Range	Wt	Type
	Flight Arrow	5 sp each	1d6	1d8	2d6	x3	160 ft	0.05 lbs each	Piercing (physical, common)
	Weapon Qualities: Expendable
	Flight arrows are designed for the maximum possible range. As a result, they use common diamond-tip arrowheads in good quality steel but in very small sizes. The shafts are made of kiln-dried lightweight woods, like alder, fir, spruce, or cedar. And the fletching is small, often made of chicken feathers rather than goose. The result is an arrow that is the same size as a regular arrow but weighs about half as much and is ridiculously streamlined. Flight arrows shoot like lightning, and are what are used in target shooting competitions.

	Ammo Type	Cost	Sm Dmg	Med Dmg	Large Dmg	Crit	Range	Wt	Type
	Whistling Arrow	1 gp each	1d6	1d8	2d6	x3	120 ft	0.1 lbs each	Piercing (physical, common)
	Weapon Qualities: Expendable, Audible
	Take a common arrow, replace that simple but elegant diamond point with a whistling cage made of bent rod, and you create a whistling arrow. These are audible in flight to a distance of 50 feet from the path of their flight, so they're pretty darn loud. They make a distinctive falling shriek as they fly that sounds eerie, especially if you get a few hundred going all at once. Great fun, but expensive. Whistling arrows even do reasonable damage, since they have a functional chisel point atop the whistling cage.

Hand Onager				2-Hand Projectile / Exotic					[edit]
	Cost	Sm Dmg	Med Dmg	Large Dmg	Crit	Range	Wt	Type
	250 gp	see ammo	see ammo	see ammo	see ammo	see ammo	18 lbs	Piercing (physical, common) or by ammunition
	Weapon Qualities: Handy, Massive, Mighty, Non-Melee
	The hand onager is a powerful ranged weapon rarely seen in use. A hand onager uses twisted skeins of spider silk to place tension upon a pair of sturdy wooden arms. It is treated as a heavy crossbow and a siege weapon to determine what feats are usable with it. Unlike lesser crossbow-class weapons, a hand onager may never be fired one-handed under any circumstances. A hand onager fires the same ammo a heavy crossbow fires, but with significantly greater force. A large part of this is due to the fact that a hand onager does not keep the bowstring under tension when it is not cocked, so it can be made with much heavier draw weights without worrying about breaking the string. Even more important, for a given size, a hand onager can be drawn back much further than a crossbow, and the longer length of draw allows it to shoot much harder even at the same draw weight. In addition, a hand onager can be obtained in Mighty versions at a price of 250gp per Strength plus. Load: Cranking back the arms of a hand onager to reload can be performed with either a move action or an attack action. The reload time can be reduced by taking the Rapid Reload (Feat). The hand onager belongs to the "Crossbows" and "Siege Engines" weapon groups

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	Ammo Type	Cost	Sm Dmg	Med Dmg	Large Dmg	Crit	Range	Wt	Type
	Crossbow Bolt	1 sp each	2d6	2d8	3d8	19-20 / x2	120 ft	0.1 lbs each	Piercing (physical, common)
	Weapon Qualities: Expendable
	Crossbow bolts are thick, graceless things compared to arrows. In keeping with the simplicity of the crossbow, the bolts are not sophisticated, either. Arrows must be carefully made with just the right amount of flex, or spine, in the long, slim shafts. Bolts are far too thick and short to flex, even under the brutal firing conditions of heavy crossbows or hand onagers. Bolts have simple conical tips hammered of mild steel, massive shafts of heavy, cheap woods like greenheart, swamp oak, or sycamore, and durable fletching made of thin sections of cherry or pine. They take little to no skill to make, but they do have to be consistently made, so they are all the same size. Despite their low sophistication, nobody can argue that bolts lack in power, and they have won many, many battles.

	Ammo Type	Cost	Sm Dmg	Med Dmg	Large Dmg	Crit	Range	Wt	Type
	Barbed Bolt	5 gp each	2d8	2d10	4d8	19-20 / x2	80 ft	0.25 lbs each	Piercing (physical, common)
	Weapon Qualities: Expendable
	Barbed crossbow bolts are just about the nastiest things you'll ever see. They are stout, brutal devices, whose wicked barbs make the terrible wounds already inflicted by a crossbow much, much worse. Unlike normal bolts, barbed bolts are difficult to make and thus are expensive. They are typically made of the same woods as arrows, although in a thick, strong, graceless fashion, and are often fletched with thin shavings of horn or turtle shell. The massive barbed heads require considerable skill to forge and sharpen. Barbed bolts are heavier than standard bolts, and cannot be fired as far as standard bolts. Pointing a crossbow loaded with a barbed bolt at a someone is a very clear statement that you mean business.

	Ammo Type	Cost	Sm Dmg	Med Dmg	Large Dmg	Crit	Range	Wt	Type
	Blunt Bolt	5 cp each	2d6	2d8	3d8	19-20 / x2	60 ft	0.1 lbs each	Bludgeoning (physical, common)
	Weapon Qualities: Expendable
	Blunt crossbow bolts have the simple conical tip of mild steel replaced by a small round bit of glued-on iron that covers the end of the thick wooden shaft. This means blunt bolts can be made without a blacksmith, just punched out bits of iron. As a result, the cost of blunt crossbow bolts is half that of standard bolts. Blunt bolts weigh the same and do the same amount of damage as regular bolts, although the range is halved. In a hand onager, blunt bolts grant the weapon the Sunder quality at range, since the Hand Onager is also a Siege Weapon.

Stonebow				2-Hand Projectile / Exotic					[edit]
	Cost	Sm Dmg	Med Dmg	Large Dmg	Crit	Range	Wt	Type
	250 gp	see ammo	see ammo	see ammo	see ammo	see ammo	8 lbs	Bludgeoning (physical, common) or by ammunition
	Weapon Qualities: Alchemical, Bullets, Mighty, Non-Melee
	A stonebow is a modified version of a composite greatbow, except that the handle portion of the bow is offset to one side by a couple of inches with an integrated wrist brace, and a small wooden ring is woven into the bowstring where you would normally nock the arrows. This ring is used as a "cup" in which various sling or thrown projectiles are nestled, and then shot forth by the stonebow. A stonebow cannot fire arrows, but it can be used to fire anything a sling can throw, granting more range and greater impact. A stonebow cannot use found rocks as ammunition. The power of the weapon and the tight tolerances of the offset make manufactured ammunition the only kind possible. Each point of Strength adjustment adds +250 gp to the price of a stonebow. The stonebow belongs to the "Bows" weapon group.

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	Ammo Type	Cost	Sm Dmg	Med Dmg	Large Dmg	Crit	Range	Wt	Type
	Sling Bullet	1 cp each	1d8	1d10	2d8	x3	100 ft	0.25 lbs each	Bludgeoning (physical, common)
	Weapon Qualities: Expendable
	Sling bullets are dense, hard pellets with either a round or football shape to them. They can be made of metal, bone, stone, or even hard woods. They all weigh a quarter of a pound for the medium sized version of them. They are uniformly cheap, ten for a silver piece. Exotic sling bullets may be made of gemstones, teeth, or other things.

	Ammo Type	Cost	Sm Dmg	Med Dmg	Large Dmg	Crit	Range	Wt	Type
	Dural Bullet	5 sp each	1d10	1d12	3d6	19-20/x2	50 ft	0.75 lbs each	Bludgeoning (physical, common)
	Weapon Qualities: Expendable
	Dural is a rare type of stone mined far underground which is valuable for its extreme density and hardness. Dural is unsuited to most uses, it is brittle in thin cross-sections and easily cracks and flakes if it is shaped into flat surfaces. Most Dural is used in the form of sand, as an extremely potent abrasive in sandpaper. Some Dural is mined in large chunks and formed into spheres, which avoids the worst of its spalling property. In this form Dural can be used for ranged weapons and ammunition. Dural increases the cost of ammo by five times, raises the damage and critical chance considerably, lowers the range, and triples the weight of the ammo. Many well-heeled adventurers consider the expense and short range of Dural ammunition well worth the tradeoffs.

	Ammo Type	Cost	Sm Dmg	Med Dmg	Large Dmg	Crit	Range	Wt	Type
	Groaning Bullet	1 gp each	1	1	1	x2	150 ft	0.1 lbs each	Bludgeoning (physical, common)
	Weapon Qualities: Audible, Expendable
	These sling bullets are riddled with cunning perforations that cause them to emit an eerie moan audible during the last 50 feet of their flight path. They are quite light and frangible, pulverizing into nearly harmless shards when they strike a target and inflicting only a single point of damage, although magic and strength can increase that considerably. Despite their light weight they are extremely aerodynamic and fly very far indeed.

	Ammo Type	Cost	Sm Dmg	Med Dmg	Large Dmg	Crit	Range	Wt	Type
	Alchemical Bomb	free	3 + bomb	3 + bomb	3 + bomb	x2	50 ft	0.25 lbs each	Bludgeoning (physical, common) + bomb effect(s)
	Weapon Qualities: Expendable
	Only Alchemists have access to this type of ammunition, but they are highly versatile. With the use of discoveries, alchemical bombs can be modified to do a huge variety of damage types, status conditions, and other nasty surprises for the unwary.

	Ammo Type	Cost	Sm Dmg	Med Dmg	Large Dmg	Crit	Range	Wt	Type
	Alchemical Creation	varies	3 + effect	3 + effect	3 + effect	x2	40 ft	0.25 lbs each	Bludgeoning (physical, common) + creation effect(s)
	Weapon Qualities: Expendable
	Some alchemical creations are meant to be thrown, but can also be propelled with the use of a sling, slingstaff, or stonebow (or any other weapon that projects bullet-type ammunition). A complete list of alchemical creations can be found on the Alchemical Creations page, but only the entries which show a range increment may be used here.

	Ammo Type	Cost	Sm Dmg	Med Dmg	Large Dmg	Crit	Range	Wt	Type
	Skiprock	3 gp	1d8	1d10	2d8	x2	40 ft	0.25 lbs each	Bludgeoning (physical, common)
	Weapon Qualities: Expendable, Non-Melee, Ricochet
	Skiprocks are small puck-shaped rocks that can be thrown, or fired from a sling, slingstaff, or stonebow. Skiprocks require the Exotic Weapon Proficiency feat to use proficiently. Although skiprocks can be used as ammunition, they are primarily thrown weapons. Because of this, if a skiprock is enchanted to at least +1, it gains the Returning weapon property and loses the Expendable quality. This means that a single enchanted skiprock can be used as ammunition multiple times per round. Skiprocks belong to the "Thrown" weapon group.