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<blockquote data-quote="Hurin70" data-source="post: 7977825" data-attributes="member: 6875491"><p>You seem to be fixating on 'greatest archer', so let's clear that up right now.</p><p></p><p>Whether Robin Hood's reputation as the absolute <em>greatest archer in history </em>grew up in the 15th century or a little later I'm not entirely sure; and certainly there is no way to compare Robin Hood to archers in other cultural traditions, because no one can definitively say whether one mythical figure from one mythos could beat another from a different one.</p><p></p><p>What is clear is that from the earliest ballads, Robin was depicted as a great archer. Many of his earliest stories involve him winning archery contests. Since you asked, another such is 'A Gest of Robyn Hode', printed between 1492 and 1534. You can access it here: <a href="https://d.lib.rochester.edu/teams/text/gest-of-robyn-hode" target="_blank">A Gest of Robyn Hode | Robbins Library Digital Projects</a></p><p></p><p>He is also the most famous archer in English literature. Can you name me another English archer who is more iconic than Robin Hood?</p><p></p><p>The current stats you give for Robin Hood do not reflect the earliest traditions of popular balladry, nor the long historical evolution of the Robin Hood legends, nor even the basic rules of 5e D&D. An archer in 5e who is level 12 and does not yet have a 20 dex is not only not the 'greatest archer in history'; he's not even great. Most archer builds will have maxxed dex well before that.</p><p></p><p>So was Robin Hood the 'greatest archer in history? No one has any way of proving that definitively of course. But we can say that Robin Hood has from the earliest ballads been depicted as a great archer. He is also the most iconic archer in English literature, and modern books and movies, basing their accounts on the early modern legends, most certainly do depict him as the greatest archer in history. Modern websites do the same: if you do a google search for 'greatest archer in history', you will find Robin Hood usually at the top of the list of fictional characters listed by modern writers. This is because, as one web site put it, Robin Hood is commonly reckoned the 'greatest archer in history'. </p><p></p><p>Edited to sound less snarky.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hurin70, post: 7977825, member: 6875491"] You seem to be fixating on 'greatest archer', so let's clear that up right now. Whether Robin Hood's reputation as the absolute [I]greatest archer in history [/I]grew up in the 15th century or a little later I'm not entirely sure; and certainly there is no way to compare Robin Hood to archers in other cultural traditions, because no one can definitively say whether one mythical figure from one mythos could beat another from a different one. What is clear is that from the earliest ballads, Robin was depicted as a great archer. Many of his earliest stories involve him winning archery contests. Since you asked, another such is 'A Gest of Robyn Hode', printed between 1492 and 1534. You can access it here: [URL='https://d.lib.rochester.edu/teams/text/gest-of-robyn-hode']A Gest of Robyn Hode | Robbins Library Digital Projects[/URL] He is also the most famous archer in English literature. Can you name me another English archer who is more iconic than Robin Hood? The current stats you give for Robin Hood do not reflect the earliest traditions of popular balladry, nor the long historical evolution of the Robin Hood legends, nor even the basic rules of 5e D&D. An archer in 5e who is level 12 and does not yet have a 20 dex is not only not the 'greatest archer in history'; he's not even great. Most archer builds will have maxxed dex well before that. So was Robin Hood the 'greatest archer in history? No one has any way of proving that definitively of course. But we can say that Robin Hood has from the earliest ballads been depicted as a great archer. He is also the most iconic archer in English literature, and modern books and movies, basing their accounts on the early modern legends, most certainly do depict him as the greatest archer in history. Modern websites do the same: if you do a google search for 'greatest archer in history', you will find Robin Hood usually at the top of the list of fictional characters listed by modern writers. This is because, as one web site put it, Robin Hood is commonly reckoned the 'greatest archer in history'. Edited to sound less snarky. [/QUOTE]
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