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Old 06-14-2018, 01:34 AM   #34
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Default Re: Question about Muscle-powered Range Weapons...

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Originally Posted by Ulzgoroth View Post
Bows are a special snowflake, with fairly substantial rules to that effect in both Basic and Low Tech.

Also, the direct result is that giving a character an overstrength bow that they are too weak to properly draw increases the damage they do should they manage to hit anything with it.
I was always wondering how to represent "has an amount of ST that is enough to draw a bow, but so little that doing so results in shaky aim and increased exhaustion, much like from wielding a too-heavy sword", and LT gave a logical answer to that. Also, very importantly, LT's answer is very streamlined - no extra rolls, no table lookups, no multiplication nor division, just apply a penalty to skill and to FP like you always do for not meeting MinST.
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