Fast Draw critical success

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Originally Posted by mburr0003

If that's Lars Anderson, he uses a reduced strength bow. IIRC it's around 20 pound pull, which is around ST 6-7? He's also not performing full draws.

I always wonder what point someone is trying to make when they say something like this. Are you just trying to point out that a real 250 point archer would be stronger and better than a self-taught modern amateur archer?

Lars Anderson doesn't even claim to have originated the arrow-holding techniques he advocates. He thinks they were widely used in the ancient world, and points to artistic depictions of ancient archers holding several arrows in hand at once. Whether or not he's correct about history, it's an undeniable fact that the technique works, and it plausibly explains D&D-style "four shots in six seconds" or even DF-style "ten shots in five seconds."