Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General What's Loading and Heavy tags on weapon?

The crossbows have a tag says "Loading", and the 2h melee martial weapons have a tag says "Heavy", what do they mean? How do these two affect the combat?

This website explains all of those terms, at least how they work in 5e rules. Of course, in BG3 some rules have been modified or ignored.

Heavy: Small creatures have disadvantage on attack rolls with Heavy Weapons. Additionally, some feats (e.g., Great Weapon Master) only apply to Heavy Weapons.

Loading: Because it takes time to load the weapon with ammunition, a creature can only make 1 attack per turn with this weapon regardless of the # of attacks they can normally make. Some feats (e.g., Crossbow Expert) allow you to ignore this property.


This post is yet another example of why a better compendium/glossary is *needed* in this game. There are so many D&D and Larian-only terms that are not explained well. Every significant term--rule, mechanic, famous person or place, monster, etc--should somehow (through a hover-over pop-up or a link that brings you to the in-game glossary) lead to a description of that term.

Thank you for the detailed explanation!!

Such exquisite, edgy dismissiveness.

It's not like this is EA or anything, and neither Extra Attack nor most feats even exist in the game yet for those rules to apply to. Given how they have an icon and everything, I highly doubt their existence will be ignored once the proper mechanics are in place.

This in particular, means litteraly nothing right now.

We have no acess to multiattack ...
And NPCs who does, ignores this tag and are attacking twice (or thrice sometimes) per turn, even tho it should be impossible.

Yeah. Imagine if it was true.