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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ClaytonCross" data-source="post: 7352130" data-attributes="member: 6880599">I kind of doubt your seriously impressed by how you followed up your answer. I could be wrong, but the answer seems sarcastic and facetious, but I am going to pretend it was a serious statement and answer it accordingly out of a hopefulness your actually here to talk and not trying to be a jerk for no reason because it hard to tell the inference of text sometimes. So... maybe you did mean it and expect an answer.Well you are correct that I did not check to see what the draw weight is/was I have not used it much it was a "Fun for a while" purchase and then I had to get ride of the small hay bail I bought form my cousin and was using for Target practice because my wife didn't like it long term. Also mine has a pull assist bar that most of the small hand helds I saw were a equipped with so I am not pulling on both sides to load it. I just pull the hand in the back. I also did not say I was quick, I fact it took me a minute which is not comparable to a 6 second round. My point is/was while difficult I was able to do it, so someone with a crossbow deigned for it and with training could to it better. I did not look up a "renaissance" hand crossbow and don't know what the differences would be. Mine is plastic and metal and I don't have a "release cylinder" is uses a lock for the the bolt like a close pin facing the end which holds the bolt and further in has a peace of metal on a spring that catches the string which I don't have to touch or open to lock since its got "ram" shape to it so when you pull the handle its slides over the release and locks it into place.As far as IRL strenght vs D&D strength goes I don't have much to go on and its not really a relative number what ever I come up with because I have no measurement in ether for pulling a draw with 2 fingers... but I have seen many people draw compound bows with two fingers long enough to take a shot. I tried with the same bow and could barely pull it back with my hand but that was along time ago. ...The only reference for strength in the real world vs D&D is lift carry weights, with that I can bench 215 lbs, squat 295, but I only safely deadlift 135 which is likely a form issue since I only recently started deadlifting.I added those 3 together for  645 divide by 3 for an average of 215 for max weight, divide by 3 and multiplied by 2 to get the medium weight since thats the one for one comparison in D&D and divide by 10 (as opposed to multiplying STR by 10 to find encumbrance weight), and get a wild guess of 14 Strength in D&D, alternatively you could just take the dead lift and divide by 10 and say 13 Strength but I figure people are strong in different ways and we are talking about a full body Strength so the average of the 3 major workouts for "defining strength" seemed like a reasonable place to start. Not that any of that means anything. Its just an attempt to answer your question.</blockquote>

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