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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cap'n Kobold" data-source="post: 7026199" data-attributes="member: 6802951">Technique isn't Dex. Technique is proficiency bonus. Dex is balance, flexibility, grace. These are all useful, but so is power and athleticism.Shooting a target arrow at a stationary target in good wind conditions, when all that is required is that the arrow stick into the straw enough to stay stuck in, is not the same as shooting a war arrow at a moving target where you need to penetrate armour and body. Particularly when using a less-efficient historical bow rather than one using modern materials that produces more power per draw-weight.Remember that D&D incorporates armour avoidance/penetration into the attack roll. An arrow that bounces off armour or simply stops at the skin and muscle of a large creature rather than penetrating to deal actual damage is still a 'miss' in D&D terms.A higher-poundage bow projects an arrow that travels faster, meaning that it needs less trajectory, its less affected by wind and similar conditions, and its target will have moved less since it was loosed. Those all contribute to accuracy. There is a reason that even target-shooting archers prefer to use the most powerful bow that they can control.My group just has a houserule that bows can use either Str or Dex. That way caters to both popular media tropes and historical realism with minimal complications. I'm unsure of the point that you're making: Neither is a graceful man, without practice. In fact the strong man is going to at least be able to shoot a warbow, albeit without much accuracy.</blockquote>

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