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HeatDeath · 03-09-2019, 09:16 PM

The logistics are different, for sure. If you win the skirmish, or even if you're reasonably clever during the skirmish, you can recover your boomerangs. I don't know if crossbow bolts are typically recoverable, and the ITL rulebook seems silent on the issue.

OTOH, it certainly wouldn't take a very sadistic GM to contrive a situations where your cleverly min-maxed boomerang-based character build becomes completely useless. Like putting you in a running carriage wagon chase. >:)

For myself, I tend to play individual Melee/Wizard skirmishes, rather than running ITL campaigns, and boomerangs aren't even in the base Melee rule set, probably in part because of these considerations - they aren't quite mathematically balanced with the rest of the weapons, and therefore require some subtle attention from a human GM.

03-09-2019, 09:16 PM	#5
HeatDeath Join Date: May 2012	Re: Crossbows and Ready Weapon option? The logistics are different, for sure. If you win the skirmish, or even if you're reasonably clever during the skirmish, you can recover your boomerangs. I don't know if crossbow bolts are typically recoverable, and the ITL rulebook seems silent on the issue. OTOH, it certainly wouldn't take a very sadistic GM to contrive a situations where your cleverly min-maxed boomerang-based character build becomes completely useless. Like putting you in a running carriage wagon chase. >:) For myself, I tend to play individual Melee/Wizard skirmishes, rather than running ITL campaigns, and boomerangs aren't even in the base Melee rule set, probably in part because of these considerations - they aren't quite mathematically balanced with the rest of the weapons, and therefore require some subtle attention from a human GM.