Scroll up to message #644 and click on the link.  So far it's not particularly active, but it's like a IRC/chat with a stored log of everything typed into the chat.

If I ever find a useful log downloader for it, it'll be great...

So it just replaces this thread?  not very fricken useful.

In reply to Mellarill (msg # 661):

just trying to see what I can do with it. I joined Discord for other communities, and I prefer this platform.

Not exactly.  As it will alert you when someone has posted to it if you want (via smartphone app or other computer like device).

I'm in one for another game, it's mostly a way for 'friends' to chat at each other through out their day.  It's 'useful' for people who are far more connected to the online than I am.

Heh.  "Matter of Concern" thread is currently at a reminder why heavy crossbows are "fire and forget" weapons.  Takes too blinking long to reload.

Also why they never really displaced hand bows in the real world.  Sure, they're (potentially) very accurate, easier to learn to shoot, and they can reach out a long way -- but that loading time...

Yup, like a black powder rifle where you had to pound the bullet down the barrel... both have their place.

In reply to Oly (msg # 665):

That particular crossbow is a very heavy one though, commonly called a siege crossbow as it requires a small crank (ie early winch!) to reload. But with 3d+4 damage, one hit is often all it takes if aimed at vitals!

Hah.  Puny crossbow.  Jednesa throw rock harder than that...  (1 point harder, 3d+5)  ;)

In reply to Jednesa (msg # 667):

Perhaps, but not as far or as accurately!

If you only have one target.

crossbows and magic make heavily armored warriors not so supreme

In reply to Ardenas Barehand (msg # 669):

Hograth is pretty handy with an axe and shield for the minions!

In reply to Hograth Podkarmen (msg # 671):

Wife and I have been running around tbis weekend, will catch up tomorrow.

Ability to shoot through a visor's eye slit at 25 paces, every two seconds, does that pretty well, too.

Sorry I am slow. I have been rehanging pictures after work...and my walls are either illusionary or just really low in DR and HP...
I pound a nail and knock out a cone of sand heavy plaster. I drop an anchors and they pull out leaving finger sized holes...
I am not likely to get my damage deposit back when I leave this place.

Some drywall plaster, sanding, and paint and you'll be right as rain.  As long as those materials and your time are less than the deposit...

In reply to Ardenas Barehand (msg # 673):

Yeah, but that kind of accuracy is much easier with a crossbow, to get that with a bow requires a LOT of CP...-9 for eyes, isn't it? Lucky this GM does not take range penalties seriously, or there would be a -4 or -5 on top of that...

Those special sticky hooks may work better...or perhaps you need to find a stud for the nail!

In reply to Hograth Podkarmen (msg # 676):

The few things installed with masonry screws I may need a grinder to flatten enough  to cover them with spackle.  Not leaving anytime soon; there are ither issues I will need to cover up, like decaks I put on a set of sliding doors. I may have to apply wallpaper and paint to hide those (they don't peel off).

Well, yes, I've got a fair fraction of my 125 points plus disads just in being able to do that.  Weapon Master, 20.  Heroic Archer, another 20.  Actual Bow skill 12 (on top of 60 spent on Dexterity), plus Fast Draw (Arrow), a bargain at 4 points.  But with that combination and three non-horrible rolls (Fast Draw, Bow-1 to nock and draw in no time, and the actual shot), I can draw an arrow from my quiver, nock and draw the bow, and shoot with the bow's Acc, once per second (the quick shot and Acc without aiming are from Heroic Archer) at effective 19.

Two more seconds of aiming plus AOA (Determined) gives an effective 23 minus adjustments (and I haven't been able to spend any XP yet, still buying off an injury from the first adventure; Bow goes up 1 for every 4 points spent) -- -9 for eyes, -6 for range of 20-30 yards, gives an 8 for an eye shot at 25 yards.  Bring the range in to dungeon distances, and that's 11 or less inside 10 yards.  I don't mind 50% odds for an eye shot, when a miss by 1 will still hit somewhere.  Or I can shoot Vitals at 25 yards at 14.

Now, that said, my arrows don't penetrate armor like your bolts -- and 1d+1, even with impaling, won't take down top-end critters with a vitals shot, even if I max the damage.  For the lightly armored humans we usually run into, however, it's adequate -- especially since I can hit 'em again (without the +2 additional aiming) the next second.  Even a slorn, however, gets even more stupid with an arrow in each eye...

Oh, yeah, the new DFRPG rules pretty well kill my Cornucopia Quiver -- used to be Q&D eligible, and cheapish.  Now everything is S&S, and my quiver would cost thousands to replace.

Oh, everyone please wish me luck.  I'll be running a homebrew Savage Worlds one-shot on Sunday.  Been a few years since I've run any game, and much longer than that since I ran anything but GURPS.

In reply to Ardenas Barehand (msg # 679):

good luck!

In reply to Narrator (msg # 680):

Yep  good luck. I have heard Savage world is similar to GURPs...is that true?

It seems Hograths skill with a crossbow is similar to the Archer if he had time to aim...+6 acc on a crossbow helps (4 acc, +1 sights, +1 fine weapon), +2 for extra time ( if you take ages to reload, why wouldn't you?) gives 24 with a skill of 16, but the ROF is the issue.
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So, my ROF is never worse than six times yours (and can be four times that if volume of fire is needed), our hit probabilities are similar, and you do roundly three times the damage.  If there's heavy armor to penetrate, you win.  If not, I do.  Seems reasonable.

Oh, and if any enemies survive long enough to get close, I whack them with my staff.

And if I have to cook something or starve, well, cooking has a default roll...

Chye has cooking, and bartending at default (carousing 15-3)
scrounging and fishing can turn up food, and he can't track, but he's smart enough to hide by a watering hole and wait, then use his bow for big game. traps, he can use to set snares for smaller game. he's a glutton, and compulsive carouser, so these things are appropriate to his script.

In reply to Chye Isuel (msg # 683):

Yeah, in Melee it probably would not be an even comparison. The crossbow is really just to get a softening blow, rather than the primary mode of combat for him! Melee is actually his specialty, with DR4 plate and a fine silver coated axe that will do 2d+3 every round, while using a holy shield to give him a dodge of 14! I know Jednessa can do way more than that, but he can turn undead to boot, so it all evens out in the end.

But he is glad he got his cornucopia quarrel before the rule change came in!