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<blockquote data-quote="houser2112" data-source="post: 7436533" data-attributes="member: 664">I would guess that applications of gunpowder were able to be scaled down to be feasible as personal weaponry before people considered that pulleys could be applied to bows was an accident of history, rather than a case of compound bows requiring 20th century technology to manufacture, so I wouldn't disallow them on that basis. I would still consider them lower on the &quot;tech tree&quot; than firearms.Does the compound bow magnify your strength? That is, do you need to be able to pull 80 lbs to even get to the point where you only need 14 lbs to hold it, or does the full draw only require 14 lbs? If the latter, I'd say you'd model the bow in-game as a composite bow with a certain strength rating, but the character equipping it need not be that strong to get the additional damage. If the former, then I'd say it's just a composite bow, since the advantage of the compound bow is something that D&amp;D's ranged combat system doesn't really address.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="houser2112, post: 7436533, member: 664"] I would guess that applications of gunpowder were able to be scaled down to be feasible as personal weaponry before people considered that pulleys could be applied to bows was an accident of history, rather than a case of compound bows requiring 20th century technology to manufacture, so I wouldn't disallow them on that basis. I would still consider them lower on the "tech tree" than firearms. Does the compound bow magnify your strength? That is, do you need to be able to pull 80 lbs to even get to the point where you only need 14 lbs to hold it, or does the full draw only require 14 lbs? If the latter, I'd say you'd model the bow in-game as a composite bow with a certain strength rating, but the character equipping it need not be that strong to get the additional damage. If the former, then I'd say it's just a composite bow, since the advantage of the compound bow is something that D&D's ranged combat system doesn't really address. [/QUOTE]

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