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Old 04-22-2015, 02:49 AM   #211
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Default Re: We're (not) gonna have to adjust Bow ROFs

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Ranged muscle-powered weapons should be less effective than hand weapons both for realism and for game balance. Archer PCs want it all. They want to hit just as often and deliver as much damage as melee characters and they want to sit back out of danger while they do it. If you want as many attacks and deliver as much damage as the melee guys then get up close and risk getting hit like they do.
Or do what the rest of us do when we want to inflict more damage than a melee character, more often, and from a range: get a gun.
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Old 04-22-2015, 03:46 AM   #212
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Default Re: We're (not) gonna have to adjust Bow ROFs

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Ranged muscle-powered weapons should be less effective than hand weapons both for realism and for game balance. Archer PCs want it all. They want to hit just as often and deliver as much damage as melee characters and they want to sit back out of danger while they do it. If you want as many attacks and deliver as much damage as the melee guys then get up close and risk getting hit like they do.
True.


although I would say they have to contend with range penalties as well and aren't getting accuracy bonuses without taking time to aim.

But yes I absolutely agree with both you points about realism and balance.
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Old 04-22-2015, 07:43 AM   #213
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Or do what the rest of us do when we want to inflict more damage than a melee character, more often, and from a range: get a gun.
Amazingly there is a *reason* low TL battles are settled by melee weapons (and not by bows, or catapults, or some other ranged or heavy weapons) but modern ones are not. Missiles don't reliably win battles until the 16th century and even then you can screw up enough to lose to a pike or cavalry saber charge for the next couple centuries.
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