I know there are a lot off bad crossbow mods out there, but i have an idea (i'm not saying it's better or that it works):
Maybe we just make a staff witch the crossbow mesh?
So that when u fire it instead of a spell a bolt comes out (maybe heavy repeating crossbows (like in "Van Helsing"), wich cost more but fire faster) Or Enchanted crossbows that fire little fireballs/...
And u need ammot to fire and u can poison the ammo/ enchant it.
That might actually work.
and what about throwing knives?
i know a mod wich does just that (and some other stuff):
http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=19388
it works like this: you have an object (piece of eden) wich, when u click it, creates 100 throwing knives (a la silver dagger). Then, you get a spell wich fires knives ( + swoosh sound and a sound on impact) and uses ammo ( the 100 knives you recieved).
So i was thinking that in Akavir (or in the small preview island ) we could have merchants selling stuff like that "piece of eden" thing (not called piece of eden though) and that, for instance, you can use it 3 times and evry time you get 10 knives, wich brings us to 30, and then you need a "refill"
OR we could have them sell the knives seperately (not as a weapon, they're listen under misc./ clutter though) so it's even more realistic (then we'll have daedric, akavir, glass, steel,... knives too, i don't think thats' hard, is it?). And no, you don't need special gloves/ rubbish to throw them, you can just launch them away even if you're playing naked ( yes, i know you're doing just that sometimes, just admit it
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Can we do that/ is it possible/ is it a good idea/...?
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