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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Falling Icicle" data-source="post: 6228561" data-attributes="member: 17077">I wasn't aware that arrows accelerate in flight. It would seem to me, at least as far as I understand Newton's laws of motion, that an arrow's speed is greatest at the moment it is first shot, and then slows down after that as it encounters air resistance. In space, where there is no air, it would just fly at the same speed forever, or until it hit something or got caught in some gravitational pull. But in no case, ever, would an arrow accelerate in flight unless something pushed it to make it go faster. If someone here is an expert in physics, they can correct me if I'm wrong about that.You can criticize LotR as cinema, that's fine. But it's not just LotR where shooting people at point blank range comes into play. People in real life hold hostages with guns put right to their head all the time. Should they get disadvantage on their attack roll? It seems to me that being close to a target actually makes it a heck of a lot easier to hit with a ranged weapon, not harder. That doesn't meant that fighting someone with a ranged weapon in melee is a always a good idea, though. But that is because you have nothing to block with, and an opponent has a chance to disarm your weapon, not because shooting people that are 5ft away is hard.</blockquote>