Shortbow Expert (Bonus Action and Feat)
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- 🏆 #84 of 95 Weapons mods in this game by downloads
📋 About This Mod
Adds a bonus action weapon attack for all shortbows, with a feat to improve it a la Crossbow Expert
Simply lets shortbows compete with dual hand crossbows by giving them an equivalent 'off-hand' attack.
Other mods offer a multi-shot attack or rework bows completely and I just wanted something vanilla-friendly with a small footprint.
Like with dual crossbows, this has the benefit of leaving your action free for other attacks, special arrows or spells.
Nimble Shot deals 1d6 piercing damage up to 9m/30ft. It can apply effects and conditions but no damage bonuses
Shortbow Expert lets you make ranged attacks without disadvantage in melee, same as Crossbow Expert
It also improves Nimble Shot's range to 60ft and lets it deal full weapon damage incl. bonuses, like Two Weapon Fighting for off-hand shots
Tooltip will confirm you have the improved attack:
Compatibility
Not compatible with anything that changes vanilla shortbows, obviously.
This mod overrides "WPN_Shortbow" and "MAG_Shadow_Blinding_Bow" to unlock the bonus action attack.
Any modded weapons loaded after will work if they inherit "BoostsOnEquipMainHand" (or "Boosts" since 1. 0. 0. 10) from base shortbows.
Confirmed working with:
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[]Fade's Class Equipment
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]Basket Full of Equipment
Known Issues
Tooltip displays improved damage as Piercing; actually applies all types from your weapon e.g. Poison when dipped, Fire from Helldusk Gloves
Thanks to the incredible community for all their tools and guides and the brilliant folks in Larian Studios dev chat on Discord <3
Artwork @ DanDanyDaniel📊 Mod Details
- Game
- Baldurs Gate 3 Mods
- Author
- JaqXL
- Version
- 1.0.0.10
- Downloads
- 473
- Endorsements
- 20
- Category
- Weapons
- Created
- 1/19/2026
- Updated
- 1/22/2026
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