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Message: <blockquote data-quote="genshou" data-source="post: 2954488" data-attributes="member: 13164">Fact of the matter is, you can't have an arrow ready all the time.  That would be exhausting.  You might have it nocked, but holding the bowstring back all day would wear you out fast.  Your example situation was both monster and archer becoming aware of one another at a distance of 60 feet.To go with another example, I saw a TV documentary where they had two men face off with nonlethal weaponry, one with a gun firing blanks and the other with a fake knife.  The goal of the guy with the gun was to draw his weapon and fire on his opponent before he closed the 30-foot distance, and he couldn't draw until the other guy started moving.  He failed every time.It seems like a guy charging 60 feet isn't coming at the victim very fast... until you're the victim.</blockquote>