Re: Crossbow - Prone or Kneeling Fire
 

A +1 bonus is always an effective way to get a player to let go of an argument.

Re: Crossbow - Prone or Kneeling Fire
 

Well, that's what I suggested up above, for precisely this reason, so you certainly have MY support! ;-)

Re: Crossbow - Prone or Kneeling Fire
 

What's the IQ roll to find a branch at the right height for bracing?

Does it depend on having the Woodsman talent?

Must resist urge to put "Got Woodsman?" in my sig.

Re: Crossbow - Prone or Kneeling Fire
 

Meanwhile, as the prissy crossbowman runs around desperately searching for a tree with some branches at just the right height, rejecting muddy spots and places with too many leaves, the grizzled longbow archer watches from a distance — shaking his head in disgust — and he quietly nocks an arrow, draws the string back, and takes aim…

Re: Crossbow - Prone or Kneeling Fire
 

I wonder how many people remember my original question?

After reading all the replies I believe I have my answers.

• Standing or leaning against a tree or column may offer some added stability to the crossbowman and a GM may house rule a +1 DX or not.
  
• To get a +2 DX bonus while standing there needs to be a supporting object under the crossbow.
  
• Kneeling or sitting with some object (perhaps the cranquin) supporting the crossbow from underneath gets a +2 DX bonus.

I had no idea when I started this thread that there could be so many opinions about this. I'm glad I didn't ask a hard question.

Re: Crossbow - Prone or Kneeling Fire
 

Hey, at least you got a consensus. I know of rules questions for some games that have been debated for at least the past two decades.

Re: Crossbow - Prone or Kneeling Fire
 

RVA_Grandpa, you forgot the additional Implied Answers, that…

• Two crossbowmen looking for DX bonuses in the bushes are worth one actually shooting.
• Leaning against a tree and resting the crossbow on something might be worth +3 DX, and is surely worth another few pages of debate.
• Nobody has addressed laser sights, scopes, or the obvious need for new Talents like "Marksmanship" and "Ballistics"

Re: Crossbow - Prone or Kneeling Fire
 

*initiates HTH combat against FireHorse*

Re: Crossbow - Prone or Kneeling Fire
 

*face-down, bloodied and pounded nearly flat as ColBosch stomps away, calls out in a choking gasp…"

—and what if the Tree is sentient…?

Re: Crossbow - Prone or Kneeling Fire
 

Now this is the kind of well thought out intellectual discussion I want to see.

Thanks you guys!