Hit a flat surface and create a geyser of acid with 10 foot radius. Fountainhead Bolt (magic item compendium Pg 52). better to go down crafting poison route imo. Bolt of biting (magic item compendium Pg 46.) expensive for what ti does, with a weak DC on the poison. Specific bolts, (rather than enhancements): anything casting arcane spell or that has an arcane spell like ability is affected so always great to have. Magebane (magic item compendium Pg 38) mentioned for its general usefulness. (greater)dispelling (magic item compendium, Pg 33). if the enemies line up nicely you can damage a decent number of them. 134), extra damage and lets you mimic the feat penetrating shot. Exit wounds (again complete warrior, Pg. mostly hilarious around cliffs/lava pits etc. basically gives you bullrush attempts on hit enemies, maybe knocking them back. the exploding ammo quality mentioned by paranoidbox, Complete Warrior Pg. Well first of all I would suggest talking to the Gm about just allowing equivalent versions of the arrows in bolt form, failing that here is a little list of ones i can think of/find.įirst some interesting ammo enhancements(not a complete list but a nice start): Not entirely what you were asking, because you wanted Alchemical Bolts more like, but some of these at the very least could be useful to you, I hope. And the Tumbling Bolt only allows the target to use half his Dex modifier to AC (I think it was updated from A&E where it inflicted +2 damage). It's great, I love using that one.Ī Sniper's bolt adds some range, but I don't even know where I read about that one. Again, I think that's Dragon Magazine.Ī&E has this thing, IIRC, called a Shatterbolt, which has a crit range of 18-20 and a x3 crit modifier. There's also the Splintering Bolt which inflicts 1D6 damage in a 30' cone (RefHalf DC 15). I think that one is from a Dragon Magazine though, so it might not be allowed. Leaving aside the crossbow bolts that are made out of adamtine or cold iron or whatever, there's the Exploding Bolt (5' radius, 2D12 damage, RefHalf DC 20 for target, DC 15 for adjacent). at least it might make your google searches a bit easier?

The problem is I haven't noted down any of the sources, so. I'm currently playing a kind of crossbow sniper so I have looked through a lot of the books to find just that.

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