[Runequest] Ow being hit with a sword hurts

[Wayne Shaw]

At 09:38 AM 5/27/2008, you wrote:
>Yeah this was another good point; the RQ projectile.  In D&D a bow 
>just felt like another weapon, but in RQ it was something to be 
>feared.  Gary mentioned how the lethal a single duck with a crossbow 
>could be, but gather 3-4 archers, some with the ability to fire more 
>the once per round and you're looking at a good chance of being 
>impaled with each volley; this encouraged players to both take 
>advantage of ranged combat and think twice charging an unseen archer 
>(as opposed to running away).

An ongoing tactical issue was what to do when you saw enemy 
archers--of _any_ level.  Because you were going to have to close up 
with them, and even relatively incompetent archers could crit, and a 
crit+impale was pretty much enough to take down virtually any human 
depending on where it hit.
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