Realms Beyond Dungeons

[BRickAstley]

Yeah it's a horse drawn wagon. And my horse is named Vera. Vera is prone to socializing, as long as your horse doesn't try to make any moves on her. If he does, it won't be pretty.

[Tasunke]

I suppose I may tether my horse to the wagon then ^_^


( My horse's name is Guinevere, so I don't think that will be a problem )
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http://paizo.com/threads/rzs2kkme?Efficient-Quiver

This thread led me to start thinking about bow storage and bow stringing in general.

DM Question1: Stringing the Bow ... are we just gonna hand waive this and consider it part of the move action to ready a weapon? (or just ignore this aspect of weapons detail entirely, as I had assumed from day 1)

DM Question2: If Stringing the bow takes longer than a move action, will it matter if I have a strung bow on my person, or will I have to store it unstrung. (perhaps strung if on person, or unstrung if in a storage container).

Thank you ^_^

[Commodore]

I'm going to say we pretty much are going to force Tasunke to go with a gelding or a mare. Rather not have to have our rogues roll combat encounters on a regular basis.

[spellman]

Interesting.

@Spellman

In the pathfinder rules, it states that masterwork weapons don't 'break' on a roll of 1 (unlike normal fragile weapons). So I would assume that a Masterwork Aztec weapon wouldn't break.

Unless there are other penalties related to fragile that I am unaware of?

The only real obstacle in using the ancient aztec weapon is that, from a lore perspective, I may not be able to ^_^ (iirc)

Oh, re-read the Pathfinder description. Hm. Yeah, I guess Masterwork would remove the flaw of breakage in this case. I defer to DMs on this.
Ref: http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/ultim...l#_fragile

As for multiple Bows, typically you acn sling a spare Shortbow onto your back or something like that. But it's a pain to get out in battle, unlike a sword.

Tethers are usually the best for your horse. Although typically just taking their riding reins and tie them somewhere like a tree branch. =p

[Tasunke]

What's a gelding?* And yes my horse is female. an ALPHA female ^_^

(horse herds tend to have a matriarchal hierarchy ... not that Guinevere is part of a pack mind you ...)


*found out what a gelding is ... animal cruelty!

I'm going to say we pretty much are going to force Tasunke to go with a gelding or a mare. Rather not have to have our rogues roll combat encounters on a regular basis.

What is this now? Rogues rolling combat encounters on a regular basis? Speaking of which, why is Mattimeo stabbing my horse becoming a common theme ... I thought was a joke, but do Stallions just have a bad rap for attacking rogues or something? Btw Brick is a cleric, not a rogue, but I can understand that he would not appreciate his horse becoming 'distracted' or in other ways preoccupied from her wagon duties

As for multiple Bows, typically you can sling a spare Shortbow onto your back or something like that. But it's a pain to get out in battle, unlike a sword.

Hmm. So if I'm using my shortbow I can put the longbow in the Saddlebags, and after I dismount I can sling the shortbow on my back?

I suppose I could just leave the shortbow in the Saddlebags tbh ... but really worried the GM is going to do something evil to my horse


http://www.grozerarchery.com/acc/tegez/torok_1.jpg

Looks like the horse bow (a recurve bow, for our purposes probably a type of Composite ShortBow) was stored strung. Or could be, at least. Typically its not good to store strung bows for extended periods of time, but I suppose if the bow scabbard is hanging off the side of a horse, in battle, it would be useful to just draw it out and use it when needed ... so that you can use both hands while you are outside of combat.

[Mattimeo]

Speaking of which, why is Mattimeo stabbing my horse becoming a common theme ... I thought was a joke, but do Stallions just have a bad rap for attacking rogues or something? Btw Brick is a cleric, not a rogue, but I can understand that he would not appreciate his horse becoming 'distracted' or in other ways preoccupied from her wagon duties

I believe Commodore was referencing the fact that both rogues in the party are female, and would therefore be forded to fight off the advances of an amorous stallion.

But I'm running with the inflicting crippling / fatal injuries on non-useful (where 'useful' pretty much directly corresponds to 'cart-drawing') equines 'cause it's amusing

*found out what a gelding is ... animal cruelty!

Better to remove the balls of one in what is apparently a relatively painless manner, than to be forced to kill a large number from unwanted breeding.

also, how do you reach a COPPA compliant age without having been exposed to the concept of gelding :/

[Tasunke]

So you would consider a horse-archer's horse non-useful!? Blasphemy!

[Mattimeo]

So you would consider a horse-archer's horse non-useful!? Blasphemy!

It makes you faster than me :shrug:

[Tasunke]

So you are saying that if I choose to become a horse archer, or simply use my horse in combat, you will attack it ... (?)

and gelding ... that's just a linguistic thing. Of course I knew what castration was. Gelding just didn't click in the linguistic part of my brain. (maybe more Germanic than I'm used to, I dunno)

[Mattimeo]

So you are saying that if I choose to become a horse archer, or simply use my horse in combat, you will attack it ... (?)

unlikely, but it's amusing to threaten such