| From: | DANIEL WAISLEY <LGLUMKA@***.BITNET> |
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| Subject: | more on bow |
| Date: | Tue, 13 Apr 1993 14:22:33 -0500 |
but not a lot - so some assumptions may be wrong.
ok my concept behind the X-T bow was that it was basically
the Troll Welsh Longbow of Compound Bows
After looking at it some more (I spent a totoal of 15minutes of
thought on it - including the writing) I think str min +5 would be better.
reasons
take a Sam of 8 str and a troll of 8 str.
Bows are normally made generically for certain pound variables
(compound bows that is) yes you can vary the pounds on a bow to
a certain extent but only so much - I do not believe a bow
made for a man who likes a #100 pound draw would be good for
a child who wants a #15 pound draw.
Now with your generic SR comound bow an 8 str is an 8 str
no matter if the person is a 1.2 meter dwarf or a 3m tall troll
(yes you are right about the height thing it should have been
1.5 times - I got my firgures screwed up in a lot of places).
But it seemed that these weapons would be short for
a troll - I used a 55 lb straight bow (really hard to draw)
but because of my draw length I was getting about 63 lb out of it.
(rather small bow). So I added some height to it. Adding on almost
a meter of draw would be hard to do even a compound bow - that is
why I added the height.
My main thought is that a larger arrow - not nessecarily
the head - would do more damge and it has more a distance for
acceleration (a compound bow for those who don't know has an
basically constant acceleration compared to a straight bow).
Even though it weighs more I figured that it would travel
a farther distance at the longest range ( all that robin hood
stuff). I have changed the ranges from str +2 to str
] 2 precision bow is str +4 M and a spear (pole arm) is str +3 S
] so I figured it would be either 5+ or 6+ and went
] with 6+ since the precision to the normal bow is +2 more
I tend to ramble. the ranger bow is +2 damage more than the normal
bow is what it ment.
As to the bow accessories mount - it was a miss print (no read through)
should have been - Enlarged hand grip and a bow accessories mount
legality - its not toatlly illegal - is what it means in the top
part - you just need a permit which is easy to get.
Here it is rewriten with corrections - some
Compound Troll Sized Bow System
* Designed for you, the ultimate troll hunter
* uses the latest in strength-amplification technology to
increase its power-to-velocity ratio over the top!
* Sized for use by trolls!!!
The new Ranger X-T Compound Bow was designed just like the X version
but with trolls in mind. Normal bows do not take into account the extra arm
length of troll's arms nor do they account for the fact that many trolls are
much larger in size than a normal human. Many trolls have complained that the
handle grip was to small and that they could only draw the bow back to
the elbow. The X-T also has precision XL arrows so that a troll may take
advantage of his or her full arm length.
Because of the extra arrow length and greater power behind the shot
the X-T has already defeated ALL previous long distance records for
arrow shots with easy.
The X-T bow also come with an enlarged hand grip and a Bow Accessory
mount so that any multitude of aditions can be added to the bow.
Type Conc Str min Useable Damage code
Ranger X-T N/A 6+ troll only str min +5 s Weight 2.5
Note because the length of the draw is why it is usable only by trolls.
Higher str min can be gotten, anything over 10 (for you sam's) costs
x 3.
cost 300Y x str min arrows 25Y
comes with the accessories mount. stree index 3
availibilty 7/48 hrs legality 5-D arrows 10-D
Range
Type short medium long extreme
X-T bow 0-str str x 10 str x 30 str x 70
>>>>>[ I was impressed. The new X-L was so strong that I couldn't harldy
even pull back the string, yet Little John did it with ease. Not only that
but the bow had to stand about 2m meters tall. The arrows were huge, they
were almost as tall as me! at 1.5 metters tall they should be called spears!!.
Little John fell in love with the bow instanly, he just picked it up, did a full
draw ( something no ather bow has let him do) and shot it. It sunk so far
into the cement target that they had to pull it out from the other
side]<<<<<
-Robin Hood <13:56:43/03-07-54>
>>>>>[ It was awesome. This Troll steps out of the van with a bow that
is taller than me. He reached back in and grabbed an arrow that was my height!
Then he just pulled back a shot it at the Banshee!! The thing was, the arrow
went in!!! It must have hit the driver because the next thing I know the
Banshee was slammin into a building. The troll just got back into the van and
it pulled away.]<<<<<
-tweed <23:15:45/03-24-54>
>>>>>[ It a fragging Balistia!!!! ]<<<<<
-henry ive <12:12:23/04-02-54>
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Daniel Waisley Lglumka@***.grove.iup.edu --------(-- IUP FENCING
SCA - Shire of Robledol, Households - Cryptic Demesne (fencing) + Brotherhood
of Agincourt (archery),
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sorry for any bad grammer or spelling, etc. My mind works at 637
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