Rules Update: Master Marksman

rivanyasi wrote: Can *other* people recover arrows used for a Perfect or Steady shot during those five seconds?

No, because that defeats the purpose of dropping it - you just fired the arrow, it's supposed to be lodged in the enemy. Having someone else pick it up defeats the purpose, and the spirit, of the rule.

GJSchaller wrote:

rivanyasi wrote: Can *other* people recover arrows used for a Perfect or Steady shot during those five seconds?

No, because that defeats the purpose of dropping it - you just fired the arrow, it's supposed to be lodged in the enemy. Having someone else pick it up defeats the purpose, and the spirit, of the rule.

What about AFTER those 5 seconds are up, for example, if I have 10 arrows in my quiver, and 5 arrows are on the ground(and have been for 5 seconds) can a person then pick those arrows up and put them back into my quiver?

I gonna go out on a limb and assume that since the rulings say that the arrows cannot be picked up for 5 seconds, that it is fair game after 5 seconds.

Correct, after 5 seconds you can have whoever you want pick up your arrows.

Sean

Not to be "that guy," but I'm going to be that guy anyway. Can I ask why Steady Shot is even a thing? Yes, it's a slow count, which is forever in a pitched battle, but it's still an auto-hit skill, which even for basic damage, can be a sizable chunk, and when you add lower and higher list tags, it gets more ridiculous. The entire point of boffer combat is that if you're going to be effective at it, you actually need some manner of OOG skill, especially with archery. If you can't hit the broad side of a barn, you should probably just practice more or just not play an archer.

An auto-hit tag skill I can see because you have to spend build on it and you can only do it when you have uses of that skill. To make it a basic part of the rules takes the element of actual skill out of the game, at which point we may as well be playing a White Wolf larp and decide combat by rock-paper-scizzors. With Steady Shot, I forsee a whole bunch of main mods where there is a group of archers standing at the back behind a line of people and pretending to be Psions by standing there counting and calling damage at npc's who may or may not even be able to hear them clearly.

I don't mean to be a killjoy, but that's my two cents. Okay, rant over -takes deep breath-

The RM team and staff have spent months deliberating these very topics. Know that we do not make these decisions lightly and that a lot of thought did go into this. Ultimately, this was the best case decision to make given all of the circumstances. I can promise you, nearly ever rant and thought that one could have on the subject, we have discussed in length.

Thank you for your understanding.