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Ayrik
Great Reader
Canada
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 Posted - 02 Aug 2018 : 06:36:20
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As I pointed out earlier in this scroll, D&D is intended to be a game and D&D is not intended to be a "realistic" combat simulation. Longbows and longswords are iconic hero weapons and they get a little too much love in the game rules - their damages seem a little disproportionate (to me) when compared to a big pointy stick which (I think) should offer a lot more killing power.
For argument's sake, in the most extreme case a longbow arrow or a javelin could fully impale a target - in one side and out the other - and basically focus all the power from one arm into a sharp penetrating point of impact - but the arrow shaft has about half the thickness of a finger while the javelin is basically a broomstick, and an arrowhead certainly has less edge on it than a spearhead. Arrows might be the faster of these two weapons, but both can fly fast enough to hit a target which doesn't want to be hit, and a javelin being used in melee would certainly pack more punch (especially if used two-handed, multiplied by the attacker's mass/momentum, somehow braced against the ground or other terrain, etc). |
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Edited by - Ayrik on 02 Aug 2018 06:37:43 |
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Longbow vs. Javelin
