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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gez" data-source="post: 688436" data-attributes="member: 1328">Do you know why stone-tipped arrows were abandonned ?Because they're a pain in the arse to create. No because they were crude or unefficient. Stone arrowheads have to be cut one by one, whereas metal heads are created in a mold.Stone-tipped arrows would, if anything, deal more damage -- reconstitutions made by archeologists (you know, the weirdoes that try to rediscover how prehistoric-era men lived by simulating it) have shown stone heads were, indeed, far more efficient.They have made their own "bows" (or rather, atlatl, or propulors), using only what crafts and materials were available to cromags. They made arrows the same way, and cutted arrowheads in flint. It is a boring, painstaking activity, even with training. Then, they hung deer carcasses, and shot at these.They also shot with the same weapons arrows made following bronze-age technology (metal-tipped).The stone arrows penetrated flesh better, the arrows were stung deepier, and sometimes even traversed the carcass wholly -- metal-tipped arrows never.Stone-tipped arrows should deal more damage, but on the other hand be much more expansive -- hard to find because bothersome and time-consuming to create. The druid may have to make his own ammos, since no self-respecting fletcher would have stone arrows handy.</blockquote>