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Why do you insist on assuming that bow-using adventurers are incompetent bumblers who don't routinely keep their bowstrings waxed?

I think this comes down to, if you make rules to have something randomly occur, you don't want them to be either so rare as to be never...

I did bowhunting at times, so the strings did get dragged out into the Great Outdoors with its cold and wet. I think my strings...

I know right? It's almost like randomly generated treasure doesn't exist in the game... "Swords are very dominant in D&D." "Nuh uh...

In rooms one has been in many times before, yes. In an unfamiliar room where "how high is the ceiling here?" is a live question...

My real-world experience with bowstrings I made myself is that a string-snaps failure is less frequent than one per 10,000 arrows...

IT's the DM's job to tell the players everything that is apparent to the characters that the players may not be aware of.

My experience with AD&D 1e was that it was an extremely rules-heavy system, so much so that practically everyone ignored most of those...

I'm a DM who likes crunchy rules. I consider 3.5e to be peak D&D, and I've happily played Champions 4e in the past. One thing that...

It sounds like we're talking about two different things. You seem to be talking about the PCs choosing to avoid a combat to begin with...

If the high quality weapons characters are assumed to have never break that is also consistent within the setting. If you want to add...

I guess mileage varies. I've seen enough examples of elaborate and crippling spell-fumble systems over the years to disabuse me of the...

I find tracking damage taken by weapons (or other pieces of equipment) to be a huge pain in the ass. So I normally handwave any partial...

Roughly a 0.5% or higher chance per attack roll.

What I want to see are combat systems that make it easy for the whole party to retreat and that provide a clear signal when it's time to...