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<blockquote data-quote="Unwise" data-source="post: 6592571" data-attributes="member: 98008"><p>I'm not claiming any historical expertise, but I can tell you that when it comes to shooting fish in water with a bow, wooden or bone arrows shatter and destroy themselves without penetrating the water significantly. Carbon and steel arrows go straight in and hit the fish. Then again, water is weird, my bow could hit things much deeper than a sniper rifle.</p><p></p><p>On topic - I strongly suggest just making properly prepared wooden/chitin/bone weapons the standard. Give metal weapons a bonus. If you give other weapons a negative, it just tells the players that they have crappy gear, below expectation. This leads to discontent and a self of entitlement to metal weapons. Keeping metal weapons as a bonus to be aspired to is much better.</p><p></p><p>Also, Dark Sun is such a tough environment that you really can't afford to penalize players even further. The Dark Sun monsters are horrendous and I believe no balanced around having weapons penalized.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Unwise, post: 6592571, member: 98008"] I'm not claiming any historical expertise, but I can tell you that when it comes to shooting fish in water with a bow, wooden or bone arrows shatter and destroy themselves without penetrating the water significantly. Carbon and steel arrows go straight in and hit the fish. Then again, water is weird, my bow could hit things much deeper than a sniper rifle. On topic - I strongly suggest just making properly prepared wooden/chitin/bone weapons the standard. Give metal weapons a bonus. If you give other weapons a negative, it just tells the players that they have crappy gear, below expectation. This leads to discontent and a self of entitlement to metal weapons. Keeping metal weapons as a bonus to be aspired to is much better. Also, Dark Sun is such a tough environment that you really can't afford to penalize players even further. The Dark Sun monsters are horrendous and I believe no balanced around having weapons penalized. [/QUOTE]
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