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So far it looks good :). A couple of things I noticed about bows. "Bows are made of a curved phys rep, padded like a regular weapon. No string is attached. It is considered a Two Handed Weapon for attacking purposes; in other words, both hands and both arms must be free to utilize a bow. The...

Just to clarify, are the gobbies all for Seattle, or split between the participating chapters?

I personally have been unable to play because of a shatter. Back when I used a 2-handed silver sword, since most people don't have spares of those even in their cabins. I seem to recall that I was out of that fight and had to spend hours asking everyone to look through their stuff for one that...

Agreed. Removing packet color seems like it cleans up the rules in this issue. Arrow, Spells, and Gasses(and I am assuming Traps) all work differently with regards to repping them, and none of them work the same way as other weapons (ie, you can reuse reps with different tags and the tags don't...

On that note, does Herbal Lore still need to be a thing? Neither Blacksmithng or Trap Making have prerequisites. I know Create Potion/Scroll do, but those are that you have a level of spell so that you can make something.

Arrows and spells used to be the same color, but arrows had to have string or ribbon on them. In practice, this turned to having the ribbon or string wrapped around the stem of the packet instead of trailing behind as intended. In the last rules change, ribbons were removed, and arrows were made...

Please no. I feel like we should maximize the number of playtests.

But arrows are the only tracked weapon tag. Swords don't degrade. Is it really realistic to say that shot arrows break 100% of the time? This has also lead to a bunch of rituals that can't be used by bows. Look at it this way. If we were already in a state that arrows weren't tagged and were...

Then we could fold trap-making into blacksmithing and alchemy. That would actually make more sense to me as it makes one production skill for each base class. Fighters: Smithing/ (Trap Globes although in this case they should probably be called bombs or something similar) Rogues: Alchemy/Traps...

Although in line with the rest of the changes. I would like it to be something that lasted for 5 days. For instance, you could get an unlimited quiver of +1 arrows for some amount of production.

Because bows are much more in line with other weapons than they are with spells or consumables. Which makes the silver arrow thing another weird holdover. Sure in real life you have to track arrow usage, but weapons/armor/shields degrade as well, and no one wants degrading armor to come back. I...

It lets you hold unlimited arrows. You still need tags for them and have to track them.

The fact that you have to look at your hand to tell if you are casting a spell or shooting a bow seems awkward. On that note, is there a way that we can fix having to count arrows? It seems like something that has passed it's time. Heck, I can't even remember the last video game I played where...

It is soooo bad. On another note. As a colorblind (blue/purple) person who uses a bow, I have to regularly ask people what color a packet is. It would also, I think, be much easier for monster camps to not have to collect separate piles of packets. Also I think trap globes got added in as orange...

I think that I may have derailed this thread a bit, so I am going to stop talking about traps. (although we could move it to it's own topic) On another note, did anyone go for the x10 crit attack/back attack build? How was it?