Menu
News
All News
Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
Pathfinder
Starfinder
Warhammer
2d20 System
Year Zero Engine
Industry News
Reviews
Dragon Reflections
Columns
Weekly Digests
Weekly News Digest
Freebies, Sales & Bundles
RPG Print News
RPG Crowdfunding News
Game Content
ENterplanetary DimENsions
Mythological Figures
Opinion
Worlds of Design
Peregrine's Next
RPG Evolution
Other Columns
From the Freelancing Frontline
Monster ENcyclopedia
WotC/TSR Alumni Look Back
4 Hours w/RSD (Ryan Dancey)
The Road to 3E (Jonathan Tweet)
Greenwood's Realms (Ed Greenwood)
Drawmij's TSR (Jim Ward)
Community
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Resources
Wiki
Pages
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Downloads
Latest reviews
Search resources
EN Publishing
Store
EN5ider
Adventures in ZEITGEIST
Awfully Cheerful Engine
What's OLD is NEW
Judge Dredd & The Worlds Of 2000AD
War of the Burning Sky
Level Up: Advanced 5E
Events & Releases
Upcoming Events
Private Events
Featured Events
Socials!
Twitch
YouTube
Facebook (EN Publishing)
Facebook (EN World)
Twitter
Instagram
TikTok
Podcast
Features
Top 5 RPGs Compiled Charts 2004-Present
Adventure Game Industry Market Research Summary (RPGs) V1.0
Ryan Dancey: Acquiring TSR
Q&A With Gary Gygax
D&D Rules FAQs
TSR, WotC, & Paizo: A Comparative History
D&D Pronunciation Guide
Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarters
Tabletop RPG Podcast Hall of Fame
Eric Noah's Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition News
D&D in the Mainstream
D&D & RPG History
About Morrus
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
The
VOIDRUNNER'S CODEX
is coming! Explore new worlds, fight oppressive empires, fend off fearsome aliens, and wield deadly psionics with this comprehensive boxed set expansion for 5E and A5E!
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
EN Publishing
Fix the arrow on the cover of O.L.D.
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Benjamin Olson" data-source="post: 8912174" data-attributes="member: 6988941"><p>My understanding is that there is an ongoing debate between historical weapons experts and enthusiasts on the one side and modern sport archers on the other about whether the "one true side to shoot off of" thing is historic or a modern invention, but that the sport archer argument mostly consists of overstating the necessity of doing it the one true way, and then inferring that people absolutely must have therefore always done it that one true way, and that all the depictions of it done otherwise in historical art must have been done by people who didn't understand archery.</p><p></p><p>Yet at the same time there have been many instances of a consensus about how weapons historically worked developing amongst historians based on sources and inference that modern experiments involving actually trying to use said weapons have cast severe doubt on, so the modern sport archer's claim that "the art is wrong" is not as absurd as it may seem to a historian's ear. But ultimately, in this case, shooting from one side of the bow just doesn't seem to be so advantageous over the other, with practice, in all situations. It seems it is easier to aim accurately on the side primarily used today which makes sense for a target sport, but one can potentially nock and fire arrows faster the other way, which may make more sense for firing volleys or for a hunter trying to hit a quarry that is not going to politely stand still like a target.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Benjamin Olson, post: 8912174, member: 6988941"] My understanding is that there is an ongoing debate between historical weapons experts and enthusiasts on the one side and modern sport archers on the other about whether the "one true side to shoot off of" thing is historic or a modern invention, but that the sport archer argument mostly consists of overstating the necessity of doing it the one true way, and then inferring that people absolutely must have therefore always done it that one true way, and that all the depictions of it done otherwise in historical art must have been done by people who didn't understand archery. Yet at the same time there have been many instances of a consensus about how weapons historically worked developing amongst historians based on sources and inference that modern experiments involving actually trying to use said weapons have cast severe doubt on, so the modern sport archer's claim that "the art is wrong" is not as absurd as it may seem to a historian's ear. But ultimately, in this case, shooting from one side of the bow just doesn't seem to be so advantageous over the other, with practice, in all situations. It seems it is easier to aim accurately on the side primarily used today which makes sense for a target sport, but one can potentially nock and fire arrows faster the other way, which may make more sense for firing volleys or for a hunter trying to hit a quarry that is not going to politely stand still like a target. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
EN Publishing
Fix the arrow on the cover of O.L.D.
Top