Why short bow instead of long bow?

[Wildcat]

Originally Posted by Bruno

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.

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.

[Peter Knutsen]

Originally Posted by Bruno

Nod. The things you can get away with in sports events tend to be significantly illegal in civil society - full contact sports are nigh-on exempt from assault, aggravated assault, and assault with a deadly weapon laws, as long as they conform to "the rules of the game" or "expected failures to comply with the rules of the game".

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.

My point is that in many low-TL societies, what weapons you carry affect how NPCs perceive you.

If you carry longbows and broadswords, you're perceived as war-like and up to no good, whereas shortbows and shortswords are often "standard gear" for men, and is seen as everyday and commonplace.