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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Petrosian" data-source="post: 519816" data-attributes="member: 1149">I should have been more specific...The myth i was referring to is the one about how fragile bows are with only hardness 5 and blah blah... many melee weapons are similarly 5 hardness and low HP, such as spears and staves.Bows are indeed probably easier to hit, depending on the relative strengths in combat of the participants. They are just not obviously more fragile than most melee weapons...As for the other guy who wonders why i would apply the rules for enhancements to bows...Well, bows are weapons..."The attacker cannot damage a magic weapon or shield that has an enhancement bonus unless his own weapon has at least as high an enhancement bonus as the weapon or shield struck. Each +1 of enhancement bonus also adds 1 to the weapon's or shield's hardness and hit points. If a combatant's shield has a +2 enhancement bonus, a combatant add 2 to its hardness and to its hit points."If it said MELEE weapon, i would agree with excluding bows from this.it doesn't.Is there an FAQ or erratta that i have missed which specifies this only applies to MELEE WEAPONS? If so then i am in error.If not, then are you suggesting that by implementing this house rule that weakens bows you have found them to be balanced in play in your games? Given i think archery is a tad overpowered, i would not be averse to the notion that applying a house rule that made bows more vulnerable than the core rules specify resulted in a balanced play.</blockquote>

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