Bone Bow

[bobbogum]

Ok have any of you Cantrians ever read the oddessy (is that how you spell it) Anyway you know Odeseus who as you know went to fight in the trojan war, got lost and all that? Well as one of the tasks for Penelope's (odesseus' wife) suiters was to string a bow made out of the horns of a ram, well that could be done! Just say 1000 grams of Large bones and some copper and say 3 days and a bone knife, good for areas that don't have wood for a primitive bow, and it deals a attack of 30, you know the bow could only be strung by odeseuss who is a very strong man, and maybe even you could have the "Very strong types" in cantr that don't need a bow stringer but everyone else has to, because well that ain't strong enough, propably too hard to implement.
That is my rant of the day, thank you *smiles and bows*

[trexdino]

If it is an alternate to the primative bow, then 30 is way to much to do for damage. and if you copper, then it will never be very popular, copper is one of the least used resources i believe

[DylPickle]

Yeah, and jewel studded golden sceptors to beat poor, ugly, gimped people, like Odysseus used in the Iliad.

And we need giant wooden horses, even though they were never mentioned in Homer's poems.

But hey, bone bows.... I don't know. Personally, I hate bone stuff. Bones suck. My better-off characters would rather have their hand cut from their wrist, than touch a bone tool. All nasty and quick rotting. That's for the peasants

[toon]

I agree that even if this idea is used, it shouldn't have such a high attack. But there should be something that makes copper and all that used more.

[Chris]

And we need giant wooden horses, even though they were never mentioned in Homer's poems.

It is mentioned briefly in The Odyssey, bk 4, when Menelaus tells the story to Telemachus, with Helen present:

Then Menelaus said, "All that you have been saying, my dear wife, is true. I have travelled much, and have had much to do with heroes, but I have never seen such another man as Ulysses. What endurance too, and what courage he displayed within the wooden horse, wherein all the bravest of the Argives were lying in wait to bring death and destruction upon the Trojans. At that moment you came up to us; some god who wished well to the Trojans must have set you on to it and you had Deiphobus with you. Three times did you go all round our hiding place and pat it; you called our chiefs each by his own name, and mimicked all our wives -Diomed, Ulysses, and I from our seats inside heard what a noise you made. Diomed and I could not make up our minds whether to spring out then and there, or to answer you from inside, but Ulysses held us all in check, so we sat quite still, all except Anticlus, who was beginning to answer you, when Ulysses clapped his two brawny hands over his mouth, and kept them there. It was this that saved us all, for he muzzled Anticlus till Minerva took you away again."

[bobbogum]

What I mean is that if you are "Much stronger than average then you should be able to deal out 30 damage, but if you are lower strength and attack than you deal out about 20. and maybe about 450 grams of copper and some sinew

[sanchez]

I like the idea of a woodless primitive weapon of a little better quality like this, but I think copper frequently cooccurs with wood, so I guess I don't really see what problem that solves.

[bobbogum]

Well the copper could just be asthetic like feathers on a bone shield and you need leather or string for the grip, and It can be called "Fine Bone Bow" you know something like a hunting bow, maybe does more damage to animals than cantrians?

[DylPickle]

^To Chris

Ah, I was being a little myopic. I've read all of the Iliad but only a few "handpicked" chapters of the Odyssey. Which is stupid, the Odyssey's way more fun.


But to the suggestion... Nevermind, it's an spin-off of this suggestion. I'll go thread search.

[Chris]

DylPickle, yeah, The Odyssey is more fun! If you are low on time for reading, there is a great unabridged audio version of the Fagles translation.

[shapukas]

i sugdest not bones, but horns for such a bow. Maby such bow coud do about 25-30 damadge?

[bobbogum]

Ok, how about Ivory, call it a "Fine Ivory Bow" and Like shapukas said, so I'll be a nice sounding bow.

[Chris]

How will you get the ivory? You would have to kill an elephant (natural armor 24) or a mammoth (natural armor 32).

I think that the current array of low tech weapons is more than adequate.

[Gran]

I am agaisnt that bow.Simply.

[Rossato]

A Composite recurve bow can be made out of wood and sinew, and is quite a powerfull weapon. I dont think we need another low-tech good weapon.