Brace (Ranged)

See also: Brace (Melee)

Brace (Ranged) is a weapon action available to characters proficient in and wielding a heavy crossbow or longbow in their main hand.

Description

Spend 6 m (20 ft) of your movement. For the rest of your turn, roll ranged damage twice and use the highest result.

Properties

Cost

 6 m (20 ft) Movement Speed

Details

 Recharge: Short rest

Must be proficient with weapon

Duration: 1 turn

Technical details

UID

Shout_SteadyRangedCrossbow

Spell flags

IsDefaultWeaponAction

Condition: Braced

 Braced

Duration: 1 turn

• On damage rolls, roll twice and use the higher result.

How to learn

Granted by wielding the following weapon types with proficiency:

•  Heavy Crossbows
•  Longbows

Notes

• Brace breaks  Hiding and  Invisible.

Bugs

• The Brace weapon action for heavy crossbows is separate from the one for longbows, so a character can use Brace twice per short rest by swapping between a heavy crossbow and a longbow.
• The longbow variant rerolls damage dice that roll less than 8. This means that if a character swaps the longbow for a heavy crossbow right after using Brace, or has a damage rider such as  Vampire Ascendant, rolls of 8 and 9 on those larger dice are not rerolled.