Hand Onager (Weapon)

Hand Onager				2-Hand Projectile / Exotic					[edit]
	Cost	Sm Dmg	Med Dmg	Large Dmg	Crit	Range	Wt	Type
	250 gp*	2d6	2d8	3d8	x3	120 ft	18 lbs	Piercing or by ammunition
	Weapon Qualities: Massive, Mighty, Non-Melee
	The hand onager is a powerful ranged weapon rarely seen in use. A hand onager uses twisted skeins of spider silk to place tension upon a pair of sturdy wooden arms. It is treated as a heavy crossbow and a siege engine to determine what feats are usable with it. Unlike lesser crossbow-class weapons, a hand onager may never be fired one-handed under any circumstances. A hand onager fires the same ammo a heavy crossbow fires, but with significantly greater force. A large part of this is due to the fact that a hand onager does not keep the bowstring under tension when it is not cocked, so it can be made with much heavier draw weights without worrying about breaking the string. Even more important, for a given size, a hand onager can be drawn back much further than a crossbow, and the longer length of draw allows it to shoot much harder even at the same draw weight. In addition, a hand onager can be obtained in Mighty versions at a price of 250gp per Strength plus. Load: Cranking back the arms of a hand onager requires a full round action that provokes attacks of opportunity. If Rapid Reload (Feat) is taken, the full round reload is reduced to a move action. Crossbow Mastery (Feat) makes reloading a free action. Furthermore, since it is also considered a siege engine, Siege Engineer (Feat) and Master Siege Engineer (Feat) may instead be used to reduce its reload times. The hand onager belongs to the "Crossbows" and "Siege Engines" weapon groups