Adjustable composite bow?

[Ilmryn]

Is there a magic weapon enhancement somewhere that let's the Str bonus on a composite bow be adjustable.

[NNescio]

Is there a magic weapon enhancement somewhere that let's the Str bonus on a composite bow be adjustable.

Bone Bow, exotic weapon, functionally an adjustable composite bow, 250 gp, Frostburn Pg 76.

Alternatively, there's the Bow of the Wintermoon, a Relic from the MIC, which can be found on Pg. 48. Costs 3400 gp, starts of with a +1 enhancement bonus, and you don't necessarily have to care about the actual relic bonuses. It does have an alignment restriction though (CG/NG/CN).

You can attempt to reverse-engineer the Wintermoon Bow in order to figure out the costs for the Str-adjusting property. Let's ignore the relic bonuses, to keep things simple (since they require further expenditure of resources to activate anyway).

1) 3 400 * 10/7 = 4 857 (Take out the alignment restriction discount)
2) 4 857 - 2000 = 2 857 (Take out the +1 enhancement bonus)
3) 2 857 - 400 = 2 457 (Remove the cost for a basic masterwork composite longbow.)

Now you can round up the value to 2 500 gp, or round it down to 2 450 gp.

Hank's Energy Bow (http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/ask/20061227a) also provides another alternative, and it gives a host of other nifty effects that are very useful for an archer (Force damage and a Power Attack equivalent).

[John Campbell]

Bone Bow, exotic weapon, functionally an adjustable composite bow, 250 gp, Frostburn Pg 76.
No. Why do people keep saying this?


A bone bow functions as a composite longbow with regard to applying the user's Strength bonus to damage done with arrows shot from it.

It works just like a regular composite bow for the purpose: fixed Str bonus that you have to pay for. No "adjustable" about it.

[Chilingsworth]

The DMG has the Oathbow, which among other things does this... but it only works for characters with elfblood.

[Ravens_cry]

It works just like a regular composite bow for the purpose: fixed Str bonus that you have to pay for. No "adjustable" about it.
Does it say what strength it works for though?

[John Campbell]

Does it say what strength it works for though?

However much you pay for, just like a composite longbow.


All composite bows are made with a particular strength rating (that is, each requires a minimum Strength modifier to use with proficiency). If your Strength bonus is less than the strength rating of the composite bow, you can't effectively use it, so you take a -2 penalty on attacks with it. The default composite longbow requires a Strength modifier of +0 or higher to use with proficiency. A composite longbow can be made with a high strength rating to take advantage of an above-average Strength score; this feature allows you to add your Strength bonus to damage, up to the maximum bonus indicated for the bow. Each point of Strength bonus granted by the bow adds 100 gp to its cost.