How about some feat for DnD 5e. If there is a crossbow feat for DnD 5e, then let’s make a longbow/short bow feat for DnD 5e!
Bow Expert
Your skill and speed with the longer bows makes you a formidable foe. Gain the following benefits:
- Increase the damage dice for any longbow or shortbow you you by one step. As an example a d6 weapon would instead deal a d8.
- As a bonus action each round, you can shoot one additional arrow with a longbow or a shortbow.
- As a reaction each round, you can make an attack with a shortbow or longbow when an enemy moves into its melee range and engages you for the first time. This one attack does not suffer disadvantage.
Thoughts?

Too powerful. Make it a choice to either have the bonus action or reaction option that cannot be changed once selected:
I think I can see you have way. Maybe each turn you can use a bonus action to make the attack or reaction range attack instead of getting both every turn. I still like to give the options, but I think you are right that both every turn is a bit much.
That does make more sense. 🙂