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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stormrunner" data-source="post: 3168705" data-attributes="member: 13471">The bows with pulleys are comPOUND bows (though technically, they are often "composite" as well, with limbs made from layers of fiberglass instead of wood, horn, and sinew).Realism-wise, "upgrading" a composite bow would be extremely difficult and probably not worth the effort unless it was an heirloom or something.  It's not just a matter of "slap another layer of sinew on", which is what Kularian's method would emulate - you essentially have to take apart and rebuild the entire bow from the core outward with stronger/stiffer materials.  So it takes almost as much time as building a new bow from scratch (slightly less because the core is already shaped), PLUS the time to de-laminate the old layers (which is a royal pain and quite likely to damage the core).  It ends up being significantly cheaper, faster, and easier to just build a new bow to spec.  It's like trying to turn a longsword into a greatsword - you can't just weld another two feet of blade onto the tip, the whole thing has to be re-forged.</blockquote>