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<blockquote data-quote="Terramotus" data-source="post: 3944718" data-attributes="member: 7220">As long as we're talking about European cultures, it absolutely does.&nbsp; Anyone who had the wealth to afford it and the available time to train was going to be an armored warrior, and a horseman if he really had the money.&nbsp; It's funny - people wearing armor tended to live longer.If you didn't have that money, you were probably a farmer who doubled as hunter.&nbsp; The bow, after all, is a hunting weapon just as much as a warfare weapon, and that would give you the time to get good at using it, just as a knight would be with his weapons.&nbsp; I suppose that in the later middle ages there were archers that weren't really woodsmen, but they were probably poor dirt farmers, and would probably be more appropriately represented as NPC classes.Now, that doesn't take into account any cultures that had a martial archery tradition amongst the upper classes.&nbsp; Feudal Japan springs to mind here, and perhaps China.&nbsp; But, then again, I'm sure we'll see something related in the inevitable Oriental Adventures book.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Terramotus, post: 3944718, member: 7220"] As long as we're talking about European cultures, it absolutely does. Anyone who had the wealth to afford it and the available time to train was going to be an armored warrior, and a horseman if he really had the money. It's funny - people wearing armor tended to live longer. If you didn't have that money, you were probably a farmer who doubled as hunter. The bow, after all, is a hunting weapon just as much as a warfare weapon, and that would give you the time to get good at using it, just as a knight would be with his weapons. I suppose that in the later middle ages there were archers that weren't really woodsmen, but they were probably poor dirt farmers, and would probably be more appropriately represented as NPC classes. Now, that doesn't take into account any cultures that had a martial archery tradition amongst the upper classes. Feudal Japan springs to mind here, and perhaps China. But, then again, I'm sure we'll see something related in the inevitable Oriental Adventures book. [/QUOTE]

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