[DF] Bow fencers with Swashbuckler lens

[Cursed_Lich]

I'm on a stalemate. It's about Combining Weapons (Low Tech 2) and Bow Fencer (DF 11).

If you combine a Long Bow and a Qang Kung Dao the LT2 says:

“Combination” weapons use either the hardest skill for any constituent part or several skills.

And DF 11 says at the Bow Fencer power-up:

You can wield a bow as a melee weapon without ruining it. Roll against Bow skill to strike with your bow as a baton at Reach 1, for swing or thrust crushing damage. If you have an arrow ready, you may opt to poke for thrust-1 impaling. You may also parry at Bow/2 + 3.

If you use a Bladed Bow, you shoud use the Bow skill to shoot and the Staff or THS skill to use the blades. Note that you use different skills with different functions.

I don't think the Bow Fencer would change this and make parries AND attacks with the Bow skill. I don't have a solid opinion about the parry, but I guess you should use Staff or THS for attacking and Bow Fencer has nothing to do about it.

What do you think guys?

[Carlos]

Originally Posted by Cursed_Lich

I'm on a stalemate. It's about Combining Weapons (Low Tech 2) and Bow Fencer (DF 11).

If you combine a Long Bow and a Qang Kung Dao the LT2 says:

And DF 11 says at the Bow Fencer power-up:

If you use a Bladed Bow, you shoud use the Bow skill to shoot and the Staff or THS skill to use the blades. Note that you use different skills with different functions.

I don't think the Bow Fencer would change this and make parries AND attacks with the Bow skill. I don't have a solid opinion about the parry, but I guess you should use Staff or THS for attacking and Bow Fencer has nothing to do about it.

What do you think guys?

Bladed Bow requires two skills to be used: Bow skill to shoot and Staff or THS to use its blades with melee attacks.

On the other hand, what distinguish the Scout from other non-scouts or scout-lensed dwelvers is that they have Bow Fencer, which allows then the unique ability to use their bows both as ranged and melee weapon.

IMHO, the fact that its a bow with blades (made with combination weapon rules from LTC 2) means, at best, that its an exotic weapon, requiring the Exotic Weapon Training perk to avoid penalties.

Anyway, lets see what people have to say. The point is that the Bladed Bow is the ultimate bow to pure scouts.

Its pure Bow Fu!

[Cursed_Lich]

I've sent a PM to Kromm and this was his answer.

Originally Posted by Kromm

I would say that if a bow is acting as more than a baton with the occasional arrow poke, it needs additional abilities to use. That said, we're not talking about expensive abilities . . . a Weapon Adaptation perk should suffice if the weapon in question is designed for the purpose.

Well Carlos, after all, you'll need the Exotic Weapon Training and the Weapon Adaptation perks, but that's all.