Hey guys i was wondering what you do to make crossbows more powerful, or if you even do. With the base rules (no AEC) crossbows are near pointless when compared to the bows. I have been thinking of a few ways to change this. So far I have come up with 2 ideas, idea number 1 changing both crossbows in different ways and idea 2 changing them in the same ways.
Idea 1: Light crossbows can be loaded and fired in the same round or loaded and a movement action taken. They would also be able to be fired with 1 hand but lose out on the close range bonus to hit. The heavy crossbow would deal exploding die damage (meaning that if you rolled an 8 on the damage die you get to roll again, but only once).
Idea 2: Light and Heavy crossbows increase the damage die by one, and use the exploding dice rule as above for Heavy crossbows when in close range.
Has anyone here used rules like this or different rules for buffing crossbows? What worked and what didn't?