Archers are a little shorter, and weaker than the melee people are, they stand back and fire arrows at the enemy while the stronger and brawnier people fight in hand to hand combat, and hopefully they don't get shot with an arrow in the back.
By the way, that archers are weak is a common misconception in RPGs. They had to be rather strong to fire war bows over a longer timespan. And in case of longbows a larger size was also an advantage.
But as RPGs tend to follow the "nimble archer" trope you end up with low Str high Dex characters.
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