What's a cool sidearm for my character that is a heavily armoured tacticool dungeoneer with a "not a riot shield" style shield and repeating crossbow? He also likes throwing bottles of holy water, molotovs, flasks of oil or acid, and caltrops.
I was thinking a bayonet or some kind of compact steel club.
bar mace telescopic mace blunderbuss (shoot once at close range, then use as cudgel)
Adrian Ward
Slap a bayonet on that crossbow. TWO bayonets...yeah...
Jack Kelly
A sap, or a net stick. Or brass knuckles.
Cooper Scott
Something like a crowbar or hatchet that has some kind of non-combat utility to further cement the bag of tricks kind of vibe.
Angel Ramirez
A 14 inch black rubber dong to use as a bludgeoning weapon
Isaac Miller
Hatchet Harry?
Jackson Smith
Wouldn't having to undo his trousers mid-combat leave him open for retaliation though?
Pretty sure adding/removing clothing is a full combat turn.
Charles Edwards
Pistol or hand crossbow depending on setting with inbuilt lantern.
Actual historical gunsword, all the firepower of a sword with the cutting power of a gun.
Cooper Ross
>molotovs How does he know how to make molotovs? I certainly don't
Dylan Ross
Well, you take a bottle of whiskey and stick a rag in it.
Done.
Colton Lee
Thanks, only works with whiskey or any alcohol will do?
Would wine work?
Joseph Rivera
>do this outside or at well-ventilated room >wear eye protection >pour liquor in glass >light matchstick, touch liquor with it If the liquor ignites, it's high enough volume. Wine probably won't be. Also you can use tar / crude oil instead of liquor.
Eli Bailey
any FLAMMABLE liquid will do.
Lincoln Ramirez
Gopher-chucks.
Aiden Johnson
This can work, but poorly.
Glass Bottle + Gasoline + Oil + Rag
The oil helps the gasoline stick and burn longer to catch more things on fire.
Aaron Davis
A dagger!
Jaxson Kelly
adding styrofoam to the liquid will make it more sticky which is quite a nasty thing.
Benjamin Cox
>repeating crossbow
Well, if your GM has allowed that bit of idiocy, you can get away with pretty much anything at all.
Hell, you could probably convince him to let you stick a bayonet on your crossbow!
Carter Young
Do you not know history at all?
Joshua Nelson
Mini crossbow with attached torch and wooden pointer and silencer rag
Jayden Anderson
I second this. Great idea. Listen to this dude OP.
Nolan Young
A hook attached to a length of rope. A good melee weapon to pull people off balance and it doubles as a grappling hook.
Grayson Flores
Go with a club, make it electric if you can.
Michael Martin
>anime
Andrew Johnson
To be fair, repeating crossbows were a thing for the chinese and maybe the romans (not so sure on the romans part tho).
But the Bayonet idea is silly, i agree. Thing is, most crossbows needed to be put on the ground to reload them, and a pointy end on the front will make that a lot harder
Luis Reed
OP here, at work and phoneposting like degenerate scum, came back to check the thread and I am impressed as always. Cheers m80s
also hatches are pretty good, if OP plays D&D or some sort, bc you want to keep your magical woodcutter axe with Bane(Plant)
Jaxson Nguyen
>Do you not know history at all?
I know the Chinese used them during the Three Kingdoms period, assclown. I also know the Chinese STOPPED widespread use of them soon afterward because they weren't very effective outside of siege operations.
They were fired from the hip, so accuracy their sucked. Their bolts were smaller and, because you drew the string with one hand instead of a windlass or "goosefoot", hitting power was limited. Most often, the bolts had to poisoned to make up for the lack heft and penetrating power. Are you poisoning your bolts, faggot?
The crossbow's string was also weaker and wore out much more rapidly then a normal crossbow. Carrying lots of extra bow strings, asshole?
Of course none of those historical facts keeps a fuckwit like having their PC from tote his repeating crossbow through a dungeon like it was a M1 Garand complete with bayonet.
After all, that's what you can do in some fucking video game, right faggot?
Asher Richardson
OP here
I know people sometimes have an issue with this argument, but it's a world where throwing holy water at the reanimated dead makes them burst into flames.
Tweaking a concept with historical background to be more effective than it was in history for the sake of entertainment and cinematic excitement, or even just mechanics isn't untoward or deserving of scorn. I get it though, you're insecure and incredibly pedantic and your self-worth is based off of your being sure that strangers on the internet know you're quasi-knowledgable about military history. It's fine.
How rustled would your jimmies be if I was lying about this being a tabletop character and I'm just shooting the shit on my next Skyrim playthrough? I'm still doing heavy armour and focussing on using a crossbow, but crossbows aren't repeat-firing in game and also can't be used in conjunction with a shield. Or would that make you feel better? Whatever soothes your blasted booty.
Landon Mitchell
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Alexander Robinson
Crowbar, so you can break things open
Austin Long
user please try not to spill your salt everywhere.
Grayson Brown
>shitposter said, as he continue to fuel the flames Reported.
Elijah Harris
It's against the rules to state that you've reported a post, ironically.
Austin Peterson
Dude, I don't know how OP is using his repeating crossbow. Maybe he's taking its inaccuracy and finickiness in stride. Maybe he is actually using poison on his bolts - that's a real possibility. Maybe if he's using it like a gun, he's treating it like an inaccurate SMG rather than some bolt action rifle (and before you ask, there were at least a few early SMGs that had bayonet lugs). Maybe there's elf or dwarven magic or craftwork in there that makes it better, I don't know.
Just chill out. Not everything has to be completely accurate to history, and even if it is, what you're describing doesn't actually sound that bad. You're the one making the assumption that they're treating it like a gun.
David Morris
Hi /k/
Landon Collins
>ctrl f >shovel >entrenching tool
You fuckers disappoint me.
Luis James
Telescoping shovel-spear.
Jacob Bennett
A Mace with explosive charges in the flanges.
Adrian Reed
Tactical tomahawk/small hand axe. Can hold with one hand while using the shield, and can also use it as an improvised crowbar or to cut actual trees for barricades.
Brayden Turner
Take a clay jug, fill with oil or some other flammable liquid, seal it and wrap a rag soaked in more oil/wax around it. Basic firebombs are really piss easy to manufacture.
Ayden Sanchez
>being this autistic about a game Do you actually hate having fun or somehing?
Julian Morgan
Make it a spring-loaded one
Go full tacticool dungeon delver
Evan Thompson
That would work only rarely. Just because the whiskey is flammable, doesn't mean it will ignite easily. You need something of 'higher proof', like gasoline () or small pieces of a bar of soap, dissolved into the alcohol. What the fantasy/medieval equivalent is, I have no idea. Turpentine?
Lucas Sanchez
Messer/Hanger
William Rodriguez
I really like this character idea! What system are you using? And how are you building them? I might base a future Player Character off of this, I really dig the professional Dungeon Delver.
Juan Gray
Hell yeah, bayonet!
Blake Robinson
You're using a pavise shield?
Truncheon is where its at. Also invest in trap detecting chickens, you first build one of those carrot on a stick contraptions so it bobs back and forth between the chickens eyes so it goes forward. They should trip all the traps.
James Ortiz
Normally I don't comment on this sort of thing but holy shit lighten up dude
Christian Russell
not that assblasted twat, but consider what you just wrote and then remember what board you're currently on.