Bathory
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Do NPCs even use bow+arrows mechanics, or is this just an animation and set values of damage etc?
But, with your private group the main question is: will you guys have fun with the game if bows become the only viable option? If the answer is yes, go for it.
It wouldn’t be the only option, it’s just to make archery viable. Right now nobody uses bows beside poison and explosive arrows.
Also we are roleplaying, and we have a rule saying that one can’t fight melee with a bow. Also weapon changing, when in active combat you can only swap weapon for the smaller one. So for example you can swap sword for daggers. This simulates that you have dropped your sword on the ground and quickly picked your dagger. One simply has not enought time to hide his sword, and take a bow from his back, take an arrow etc while involved in melee.
As you can see we don’t fight usual PvP server duels where everything is allowed.
Even in ancient/medieval times bow was a lethal weapon. The problem was it required a lot of skill to be used properly. In Conan without auto-aim we have similar situation.
Maybe I went too far with x10 damage, but x3-x5 depending on type of arrow seems to bring back archery without turning it into nukes.
It’s sad that we need to fire several arrows into a doe to hunt it down 