Quick loading
(Magic Item Compendium, page 41)
Price (Item Level): 2,300 gp (6th)
Body Slot: Crossbow
Caster Level: 9th
Aura: Moderate; (DC 19) conjuration
Activation: Free (manipulation) or move (manipulation); see text
Weight: —
Volleys of soaring bolts are engraved upon this loaded crossbow.
A quick loading crossbow accesses an extradimensional space that can hold up to 100 bolts, allowing you to reload the crossbow more rapidly than normal. Reloading a quick loading hand or light crossbow is a free action (allowing a character with multiple attacks to use his full attack rate), and reloading a quick loading heavy crossbow is a move action.
Different types of bolts can be held in the extradimensional space, and you can select freely from these when reloading the crossbow. Adding or removing a bolt by hand from an extradimensional space requires a move (manipulation) action.
Prerequisites: Craft Magic Arms and Armor, Leomund’s secret chest, shrink item.
Cost to Create: 1,000 gp (plus 300 gp for base item), 80 XP, 2 days.