04-16-2012, 03:08 AM | #61 |
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Re: Why short bow instead of long bow?
Actively contemplating something more details.
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04-16-2012, 03:13 AM | #62 |
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Re: Why short bow instead of long bow?
There are a couple armors in Ultra-Tech that are Hardened. And it's a standard feature on the armor of many Spaceships from that series.
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04-16-2012, 03:26 AM | #63 |
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Re: Why short bow instead of long bow?
Yes, but neither tanks nor the ceramic inserts. BTW, are UT armours Hardened or merely Double DR versus This Attack? (I know about SS Hardening, though.)
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04-16-2012, 03:38 AM | #64 |
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04-16-2012, 04:41 AM | #65 |
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Re: Why short bow instead of long bow?
Coming back to the original question - Has anybody had a char that was using a Shortbow? Successfullly? Against a foe?
For my case I must say not really - They barely hit and inflict a ridiculous small amount of damage. I'd rather settle for the sling... |
04-16-2012, 04:49 AM | #66 | |
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Re: Why short bow instead of long bow?
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Heck, entire hockey teams and their coaching staffs should be up for conspiracy to assault/aggravated assault for planning to sic their "enforcer(s)" on another teams enforcer(s) or star player.
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04-16-2012, 05:27 AM | #67 | |
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Re: Why short bow instead of long bow?
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mostly non cinematic Fantasy Campaign...GM write-up had the 4 PC's coming from the Same Island with similar backrounds...so a handful of required skills...Staff, BOW, Survival Island, Wealth: Struggling etc... I had a Short bow in my starting equipment...and have used it occasionally...but It was never worth my time and money to pursue investing in a longbow...one member of the party was/is a Heroic Archer (longbow from the getgo has since upgraded twice)...so I learned Rapier, DWA and a few other things and keep him from being roughed up by rude strangers before he can feather them... I have hit people with arrows from the Shortbow for damage...but usually only in situations where it is PHYSICALLY impossible to go to HtH range... Otherwise I usually use my Move of 8 to get up and engage as far away from the archer and the healer/mage as I can manage...so that I can fall back at need...
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04-16-2012, 06:17 AM | #68 |
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Re: Why short bow instead of long bow?
Battery/agg. battery, even. As soon as you punch someone, it crosses the threshold into battery (at least according to the definitions in the jurisdiction I live and work in). Assault is just the believable threat of physical harm.
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04-16-2012, 06:32 AM | #69 | |
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Re: Why short bow instead of long bow?
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At least, the kind where one guy ends up with his sweater pulled half over his head, and the two just kind of have handfulls of each others sweaters and try to throw each other around without having their own skates go out from under 'em. You're absolutely correct that it can go straight off the end into "assault causing bodily harm" (local term for "battery") though (and the hockey fights tend more that way than the first).
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04-16-2012, 07:09 AM | #70 |
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Re: Why short bow instead of long bow?
They actually say that the Armor is Hardened. Only a couple of them though (the TL12 Warsuit on p. 85, and the Force Shield Bracelet (TL11^) on p. 192).
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