Dodging arrows (was: Re: (TFT) Targeting Horses and their Riders)

[Mark Tapley <mtapley@swri.edu>]

At 2:15 -0400 8/24/13, Neil wrote:
> Most of those re-enactors are not using the poundage that would have been
> used in combat.

	I was about to say the same thing. I think SCA has a limit of 
30 lbs. draw weight (?corrections?), and enough padding on the arrow 
tip to make it a heavy (ie slow) arrow. Daughter and I were out 
shooting Saturday, and the difference between a 23-lb bow and a 45-lb 
bow is just night and day in terms of ability to follow the arrow in 
flight - the son even mentioned this: "Dad's arrows just seem to 
suddenly appear at the target" or something like that. And I'd say 45 
lbs is definitely on the light side of any estimate I've heard for 
draw weight of a serious longbow.

	I think of TFT "dodge" not as "figure out trajectory, 
estimate where it'll arrive, and move out of the way" but as "twitch 
randomly back and forth, get behind stuff, and generally add some 
random factor to where the archer is aiming". Otherwise, I assume it 
would rely on the target's adjDX to some degree, which in the base 
rules it does not.
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