Re: [BNW] Hipshooting, Quickdraw, and the art of the bow

[Chris DeKalb <theseus@linnaean.org>]

For a Delta level Archer I would assume that the drawing of the arrow is
covered in the firing action.  After all..they are super-humanly good at that
skill.

My two cents,
Chris
Delta World Head-honcho   cdekalb.tripod.com

Jennifer Brinn wrote:

> Hipshooting says that you can take any weapon with a quickness greater than
> 1 and "shoot from the hip", doing the shot in one action but adding the
> weapon's quickness value to the TN.  Does this cover bows as well?  Or does
> drawing an arrow count as one action anyways?  Is that arrow drawing
> counted in the Quickness value (I assume it is)?  Is Quickdraw any help to
> this at all?
>
> I ask b/c I have an Archer char in my game, based off the Gunner
> package.  I rather prefer that weapon choice be stylistic, rather than
> something based on rules, so I'd like to smooth out the Archer (yes, I've
> seen the one on the Delta World site, but it doesn't quite fit my idea
> exactly).  I'm not sure I want to just say that he can shoot each round
> without problem, however.  We just haven't worked it out just right yet.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Jennifer
>
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