D&D General D&D weapons vs reality

[doctorbadwolf]

Bows might since a full draw puts more energy into the arrow than a partial draw.

Slings also. It may use momentum primarily, but your strength still plays a role in final velocity. Maybe add half your strength mod or something, idk.

And crossbows could have a simple benefit to reload speed based on strength.

 

[Charlaquin]

Small correction;

He is fracking gorgeous. Lol

True. He and Milo Rossi (aka miniminuteman) are my YouTube crushes lol. Apparently slim, fit, nerdy, and funny with just a bit of facial hair is my type.

 

[dave2008]

Bows might since a full draw puts more energy into the arrow than a partial draw.

That is what I used to do, but now I am thinking it is more of a requiring stat, like @Micah Sweet suggested, and not a bonus to damage. So you need a 13 strength to be able to get proficiency in war bows which do more damage than a standard bow (w/ lower draw weight), but not an actual +1, 2, or 3 to damage.

 

[dave2008]

Small correction;

He is fracking gorgeous. Lol

But seriously, I just watched this yesterday and loved the video. He’s always entertaining and informative, and pulls from fantasy media, gaming, HEMA, and well researched historical knowledge.

I loved his video on historical, mythical, and modern fictional, trick shots, like the William Tell shot and Odysseus and Robin Hood, etc.

And he really shows just how much more fantasy archers should be able to do than a lot of people think, which I love.

Possibly my favorite thing he does though, is show how diverse archery actually is, and how different combat archery is from Olympic archery.

Yep, he really opened my eyes to what fantasy archers should be able to do.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

In my "theoretical" D&D, Dex is the to hit stat with Str being the damage stat for all weapons.* Of course I would revise other things so there is no one uber stat. I thinking making them all relatively equal should be a goal of 5.2e or any version of 6e.

*There will some exceptions, but that is where I would start. I think bows, crowsbows, and slings might not have any damage bonus from ability scores for example.

What I did is, your attacks are not directly tied to any of the four attributes, but instead are 100% determined by your skill and any circumstance modifiers, but you can use any attribute that makes sense to “Push” a check one step up the success ladder. Each Attribute has a pool of points, which have a min and max value, and you regain a point when you succeed without Pushing, and can spend to Push or to activate special moves, and some other things.

So you hit with skill, but you can draw upon your dexterity to focus on accuracy, or upon your strength to drive the blow through the enemy defense, or upon your wits to do a trick shot or something like that, or even Will in some cases if it makes sense somehow.

I’d love to see a D&D do something similar, especially in a D&D that turns combat checks (and magic) into skill checks.

 

[Charlaquin]

That is what I used to do, but now I am thinking it is more of a requiring stat, like @Micah Sweet suggested, and not a bonus to damage. So you need a 13 strength to be able to get proficiency in war bows which do more damage than a standard bow (w/ lower draw weight), but not an actual +1, 2, or 3 to damage.

5.24e almost got it right with the revised Heavy property, but they make it a Dex requirement for ranged weapons instead of Strength for both ranged and melee.

 

[dave2008]

True. He and Milo Rossi (aka miniminuteman) are my YouTube crushes lol. Apparently slim, fit, nerdy, and funny with just a bit of facial hair is my type.

I'm not a facial hair person myself and prefer athletic but slightly beefier in my men. Which is odd since I am a heterosexual man!

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Yep, he really opened my eyes to what fantasy archers should be able to do.

Hell yeah. Watching him amble up a tree and shoot at a decent draw length while holding himself in place with his legs really made me more ambitious with my archers. (I have always been permissive as a dm, but held myself back more as a player)

 

[doctorbadwolf]

True. He and Milo Rossi (aka miniminuteman) are my YouTube crushes lol. Apparently slim, fit, nerdy, and funny with just a bit of facial hair is my type.

Yes. Absolutely. And there’s soemthing about the like…relaxed confidence without any bravado that’s just…perfecto.

I'm not a facial hair person myself and prefer athletic but slightly beefier. Which is odd since I am a heterosexual man!

 

[Charlaquin]

I'm not a facial hair person myself and prefer athletic but slightly beefier. Which is odd since I am a heterosexual man!

I don’t think of myself as a facial hair person (I’m bi, but I generally prefer more feminine traits). But, there does seem to be a correlation between guys I find attractive and slight facial hair. Maybe it’s not the hair itself that attracts me, but that facial hair style just happens to be popular among the kinds of guys I’m into? Though (and forgive me if this is TMI), guys hit different since I started HRT. I was into guys since long before that, but… I dunno, it’s hard to describe, but it’s just appealing in a different way than it used to be.