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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FoxWander" data-source="post: 1174908" data-attributes="member: 1356">Yes, I know the difference between compound and composite bows (not that I could expect you to psychically know that! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> )- but I wasn't refering to the  bow in that link. I was refering to the draw-lock device itself. You can see the device much better in this pic from the site- <a href="http://www.drawloc.com/images/draw_loc_how_to_use.gif" target="_blank">"How to use" illustration</a>. A locking bar and trigger device like that could be fitted to any kind of bow. I did a research article on crossbows way back in high school and found a mgazine article that showed you how to build your own. The Draw-Loc webpage was just the easiest one I could find to show it. The reason I brought it up was to pre-empt arguments that "a bow is NOT a crossbow" like my old DM used once. Back in my 2E games (when the "Mighty Bow" was called a "Bow of Strength", I think it came from a Dragon article), I wanted to apply the same "strength" principle to a crossbow. My DM basically had a thing against crossbows and said I couldn't do it- in his mind they were NOT the same thing and the principles of one couldn't be applied to the other. This lead to a long after-game discussion/argument where I eventually showed him the article I'd found and turned the picture sideways to show him how it basically turned a bow into a crossbow. Eventually I got my Crossbow of Strength, it just cost a bunch of money and lead to a fun adventure to find the skilled dwarven craftsman who could do it. Anyway- I just thought it was a cool gadget to bring up and vaguely relevant to this discussion.</blockquote>

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