Slingshot (3.5e Equipment)

A slingshot has a strong pair of rubber bands attached to a Y shaped handle. The slingshot hurls lead bullets or stone shards. It doesn't shoot as far as a normal sling but has the advantage of increased accuracy. It is favored by druids, halflings. Your Strength modifier applies to damage rolls when you use a slingshot, just as it does with thrown weapons. You need at least two hands to use a slingshot.

A typical Slingshot

Slingshot

Simple Two-Handed Critical: 19-20/x2 Range Increment: 20 ft Type: Bludgeoning Hardness: 5
Size	Cost^1	Damage	Weight^1	hp
Fine	*		*	—
Diminutive	*	1	*	—
Tiny	*	1d2	*	—
Small	5sp	1d3		—
Medium	5sp	1d4
Large		1d6		—
Huge	*	1d8	*	—
Gargantuan	*	2d6	*	—
Colossal	*	3d6	*	—
The SRD only gives a means to determine costs and weights of weapons for Large and Small versions based on the Medium weapons. Any other supplied values are the author's best determination.

You can hurl ordinary stone shards with a slingshot, but stones are not as dense or as round as bullets. Thus, such an attack deals damage as if the weapon were designed for a creature one size category smaller than you (for instance, 1d3 instead of 1d4 for medium size), and you take a -1 penalty on attack rolls.

Mischievous ingenuity amongest halflings has resulted in improvised ammunition for this weapon (-1 penalty on attack rolls applies), including thunderstones, rotten eggs, alchemical items, tomatoes and ferrous aqua pellets, etc.

Halflings gain their +1 racial bonus on attack rolls with a slingshot

--Mufasa 14:56, 20 May 2011 (MDT)

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