11-21-2011, 12:11 PM | #11 |
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Re: [MH] Archer - variant Commando or variant Warrior?
Weapon Master usually goes by weapon, not by skills, yet you seem to put all Bows - longbows, composite bows, compound bows, etc. into one category (and similarly with Crossbows). Is this intentional? An errata to the Basic Set?
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11-21-2011, 12:24 PM | #12 |
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Re: [MH] Archer - variant Commando or variant Warrior?
A clarification. As Kromm has stated on these fora, the "Bow" in Weapon Master (Bow) is intended to apply to longbows, short bows, etc., equally. For WM purposes, they're the same kind of weapon, just as a Thrusting Broadsword and a normal Broadsword are the same kind of weapon for WM purposes.
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11-21-2011, 12:39 PM | #13 | |
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11-21-2011, 01:10 PM | #14 |
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Re: [MH] Archer - variant Commando or variant Warrior?
Jason, would you include fighting with the bow as if it was a baton in melee into the Archer package?
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11-21-2011, 01:33 PM | #15 | |
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The thrusting and the regular Broadsword and a wooden practice sword? Sure, absolutely "close enough", and that's technically three different weapons - but the "regular" broadsword probably would have been a CF-based generic modifier for any Thrusting sword if they'd thought of that when the Basic Set for 4th ed was being written, and "wooden practice sword" is a modifier from Martial Arts... an orichalcum or Super Fine or Nanothorn broadsword would count as the same weapon too, most likely, even though they're all made from nonstandard materials. It's not done by skill, because that's too broad. It's mostly done by entry on the weapon tables, but a blanket ruling on that part can't be made, because the weapon tables aren't organized for the benefit of Weapon Master - whether something gets its own line or not has more to do with how tight pagecount is on a given book than with whether it's really a different weapon. There's a ton of weapons with all their variations written up as notes instead of weapon-table lines in High-Tech, due to that book being very crunched for space :(
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Is a longbow and a Yumi the same even though they one is held in the center and the other about a third of the way up? |
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11-21-2011, 06:59 PM | #17 |
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Re: [MH] Archer - variant Commando or variant Warrior?
So would weapon master Kukri would include all sizes of kukri from the stats under Kukri to small and regular Falchions? Or is that a case were the word is too imprecise.
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11-22-2011, 02:44 AM | #18 | |
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