![]() Even though you ignore loading, all you are ignoring in that case is the single attack restriction. However, there are still two states to the hand crossbow, loaded an unloaded. With the Crossbow Expert feat, you're sometimes dealing with two hand crossbows or a melee weapon and a hand crossbow and making your regular attacks plus the bonus action one. Basically this is under the purview of the inset "things you can do as part of an action or move" though it's special because you can use it multiple times per turn and it's part of the attack.Ĭrossbow Expert allows you to ignore this and make all of your normal attacks. Loading the crossbow is done as part of the action, but can only be done once, not 2, 3 or 4 times. To prevent you from making multiple crossbow attacks as your action (for instance, the L20 fighter can't take 4 attacks with his crossbow when he'd normally be permitted to. ![]() The "loading" property for a crossbow without the Crossbow Expert feat exists for one reason. That would be part of your house rules, though. You didn't request a rules-as-written answer, so I'll note that there is nothing game-breaking about allowing dual-wielding hand crossbows using Crossbow Expert.īecause of the way crossbows work, I think your GM would be perfectly justified in waiving the errata rule in this case but requiring you to get a customized crossbow and ammo belt to allow you to load it one-handed. You can do this on each subsequent turn to fire a single hand crossbow twice per turn (or more than that, if you have Extra Attack). You may need to load it before the bonus attack using your object interaction, depending on your GM's interpretation of the feat. If you stow the second crossbow on the first turn with your free object interaction, you can fire the main crossbow twice on the second turn, since Crossbow Expert does not say the bonus hand crossbow needs to be different than the one-handed weapon that triggers its bonus attack. However, you can't keep dual-wielding because you won't be able to reload with both hands full. If you have a single attack, you can fire once with your action and once with the second crossbow as your bonus action with Crossbow Expert on the first turn of combat if they start loaded. This means that, post-errata, using rules-as-written (RAW), you cannot indefinitely fire two hand crossbows in the same turn. Per the official errata, "loading a one-handed "Loaded" in this case means only that you have ammunition available for the attack. You can draw the ammunition as part of the attack, so loading it is implied to be part of the attack as well. You load as part of any attack with a crossbow. So is there some other action that needs to be performed to load it (so you can have it loaded first, before the trigger hits?) Under "Ammunition" (PHB p.146) it just says that "drawing the ammunition from a quiver, case, or other container is part of the attack" which seems to imply that crossbows are not kept loaded all the time, but are loaded and fired as part of the same attack. ![]() (And, in any case, if you have Crossbow Expert you can ignore the "Loading" property.) There is a "Loading" property (PHB p.147) that just says that "because of the time to load this weapon, you can fire only one piece of ammunition from it." but doesn't specify an amount of time, type of action, or anything to load the weapon. ![]() ![]() However, nowhere in the rules does it specify a "loaded" versus "unloaded" state for any weapon. The Crossbow Expert feat states that as a bonus action, you can "attack with a loaded hand crossbow you are holding." ![]()
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