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Originally Posted by Pursuivant
Arguably, Bow (Compound) could be a separate Easy skill which defaults to Bow (Traditional) at -4 and vice-versa.
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I'd just be unkind with familiarity penalties if I was trying to be all realistic about it.
Different sights, -2; Different letoff curve, -2; Stabilisers vs no stabilisers, -2; using a string releaser, -2. That's -8 if you just pick up a modern bow without having seen or used one before. The difference is that eight hours of practice gets rid of all of it.
Alternatively, it's all part of a TL penalty, TL8 vs TL0, and is thus also a -8 penalty, though Bow is a skill that isn't considered a /TL skill in the RAW. I, as a house rule, generally consider TL penalties to DX skills as being familiarity penalties (except when a roll is required against the skill off IQ).