Crossbow house rules?

[ForestRunner]

(01-30-2014 05:29 PM)Achtung Panzer Wrote:  I'm a little surprised that BitF didn't include a crossbow which would seem a good 'hunting' weapon.

So I wondered:

• Range = 2
• Hit on 4+
• Then Out of Ammo on separate roll of 1 or 2
• Can benefit from Ammo card and tokens
  

Thoughts?

I like the idea very much!!

The more I think about it though, I'd prefer to have seperate "ammunition" cards for it. Rationale is pretty much summed up in what you said later about bolts not being as readily available as bullets, and the bolt is a very different type of ammunition to a bullet or shotgun cartridge. But sure... use the ammo tokens to represent potential refills.

I'm also cool with not having noise rules for firearms. I think we've become too "Walking Dead stereotyped/obsessed." I can rationaise the idea zombie is (un)dead and its auditory functionality has actually ceased... they know nothing but hunger for flesh and brains. This was the way I identified with them growing up, and ran with them in D&D/AD&D back in the day.