Originally Posted by Sordak
at this point im convinced that i should just filter any post that contains the words "darker athmosphere"

Weaksauce animations that feel floaty and non threatening are "dark"?
What a load of nonsense.

And on bows.
No CRPG does bow combat right and no CRPG ever will.
A party based video game will never come close to showing the effective range of an english longbow.

If you wanna go there, youd have to go full shadowrun where one of the players is essentialy not even on the battlemat.


If anyone is interested in longbow effectiveness, Tod Cutler, a re-enactment enthusiast who makes weapons for a living ( https://todsworkshop.com/ ), has got together a group of modern specialists to do practical examination of medieval bow warfare. They have a couple of youtube videos so far looking at the English warbow, including one testing against Agincourt-era French plate armour. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBxdTkddHaE

Reading a little around this subject, it seems that although maximum effective longbow distance may be 150m or more, that would need massed archers against barn-sized unarmoured targets to make it remotely worth expending the arrows. A more practical maximum distance for a one-on-one would be flat-shooting at 50m, which is still 5 or 6 turns of movement in D&D terms.