5e Siege Weapons Dmg
- Behind the DM Screen: Using standard D&D 5E rules, a 15 foot square would contain 9 medium or small creatures. D&D Wars allows for 10 creatures in a token to make the math easier. We can assume that creatures in a unit are a little closer together than individual creatures.
- Behind the DM Screen: Using standard D&D 5E rules, a 15 foot square would contain 9 medium or small creatures. D&D Wars allows for 10 creatures in a token to make the math easier. We can assume that creatures in a unit are a little closer together than individual creatures are in a dungeon. Number of Tokens.
- DMG came out after the Players handbook so the Siege Weapons was not in the Players handbook, but has Weapon written into the Siege Weapons description We use the Weapon Master Feat to add Siege Weapons Ballista is a massive Crossbow that fires heavy bolts.
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Here's my version of a D&D relevant ballista. Design goals:
- Not meant to be super realistic
- Can be operated by one character with Martial Ranged Weapon proficiency
- Ballistas are basically intended to be used by NPC forces, but a PC can take control of one and use it against their enemies.
- Semi-portable, but really meant to be left static
- I intend to eventually write up a Siege Weapon Master feat of some sort that makes ballistas and mangonel scale up with the levels. I don't expect any players to take it, but then I can slap it onto NPCs.
Tell me what you think?
Weapon: Ballista
Martial Ranged Weapon
Cost: 200gp, damage: 3d10 piercing, weight: 300 lb., range: 120/480
Heavy, Loading, Two-Handed
A ballista is not carried like a normal weapon. Instead, it is treated as a large object on the battlefield. It comes with wheels to facilitate relocation, but it is still cumbersome. A character using a ballista can move it when they move, but their speed is halved. A ballista cannot be fired during any round it was moved.
To use an unattended ballista, a character must move into its space, which counts as difficult terrain and provides half cover. He may immediately spend an action to fire. If an enemy moves into the ballista’s space as well, attacks made with the ballista have disadvantage. An enemy can attempt to take control of the ballista by spending an action to make a contested Strength (Athletics) check against the current user’s Strength (Athletics).
Firing the ballista follows all the usual rules of a two-handed ranged weapon with the Loading property, except that enemies merely standing next to the ballista's space do not impose disadvantage on attack rolls.
A ballista bolt can hit multiple targets that are lined up in a row, like a line spell. Each target requires an individual attack roll. Such an attack will hit the shooter’s allies if they are in the line. Alternatively, the shooter can arc the bolt to hit only a single target.
Advanced Light Ballista
Depending on the DC level based on circumstances, a successful Intelligence (Siege Weapons) skill check, because of your careful calculations and tactics, or Charisma (Siege Weapons) skill check, because of your inspiring leadership, would allow your siege weapon team to make a siege weapon attack using your proficiency bonus (Siege Weapons.
Exotic Projectile
| Cost: | 800 gp |
|---|---|
| Damage (Small): | 3d8 |
| Damage (Medium)1: | 4d8 |
| Critical: | 19-20/x2 |
| Range Increment: | 120 ft' |
| Weight2: | 64 lbs |
| Type3: | Piercing |
| HP4: | 50 |
| Hardness: | 5 |
1. See Damage Increases by Size to calculate the damage for a weapon larger than Medium or smaller than Small.
2. Weight figures are for Medium weapons. A Small weapon weighs half as much, and a Large weapon weighs twice as much.
3. When two types are given, the weapon is both types if the entry specifies 'and', either type (player's choice at time of attack) if the entry specifies 'or', or each end of the double weapon is a different type if the entry specifies '/'.
4. The hp value given is for Medium armor, weapons, and shields. Divide by 2 for each size category of the item smaller than Medium, or multiply it by 2 for each size category larger than Medium.
The ballista is a siege weapon which is in essence a ground mounted huge light crossbow. However it typically can't be wielded as a weapon, and requires a crew to maintain and load. Its frame has wheels enabling it to be pushed along the ground at a speed of 10 ft as a move action. The advanced light ballista differs from the normal light ballista in being made with new and more modern construction techniques to pull out more bang for the buck and ease in reloading. It fills the space of a Large creature (10 x 10).
Reloading an advanced light ballista requires a full-round action. Most keep a crew of two on hand, one to fire and another to reload so as to fire once every round. Having more than 2 crew lessens the time spend between them. For example a crew of three would spend a standard action (to fire) and can use one move action from each remaining crew to load the bolt. Crew members smaller than its intended size (such as a small creature on a ballista intended for medium) count as half as many crew members, and larger creatures count as twice as many for the purpose of reloading.
Having the Exotic Weapon Proficiency (siege weapons) gives proficiency in all siege weapons, including this one.
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The pricing assumes a standard D&D world, in some worlds the advanced ballistas are standard issue and thus have the price of a normal light ballista (500 gp).
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Dnd 5e Weapons
Dnd 5e Dmg Siege Weapons
| Author | Eiji-kun |
| Class | Projectile |
| Cost | 800 gp |
| Critical | 19-20/x2 |
| Damage | 4d8 |
| Damage Type | Piercing |
| Hardness | 5 |
| Hit Points | 50 |
| Identifier | 3.5e Equipment |
| Proficiency | Exotic |
| Range | 120 ft |
| Rating | Undiscussed |
| Title | Advanced Light Ballista |
| Weight | 64 |