Bow

Default: DX-5
Bow (DX/Average) is a skill to shoot the longbow, short bow, and all similar bows.
==Classic==
B99 "A pole or rifle could parry like a spear, a bow like a light club. However, parrying just once with a bow will ruin it as a bow."
==Basic==
For muscle-powered melee and missile weapons, such as swords and bows, damage is ST-based and expressed as a modifier to the wielder’s basic thrusting (thr) or swinging (sw) damageB268
== Supplements ==
GURPS Martial Arts contains styles and style perks for archers, including Strongbow.
Pyramid 3/33: Low Tech contains The Deadly Spring, a set of very optional rules for building realistic bows and crossbows of all sizes and materials.
==Kromm Quotes==
Sean Punch has commented on Bow in the following posts to the SJG GURPS Forums:
*April 2007 on the ST rating of bows 
*October 2007 on Bow versus Bow Sport skill 
*May 2008 on bow ST 
*August 2010 on shooting while grappled 
==See Also==
* Heroic Archer
* List of Skills
*Bow Fencer and Partial, Bow
==Additional Information==
*Creating A Super Archer
PK's guide http://www.mygurps.com/r_archer.html
*GURPS Weapons: Bows
*The Crossbow vs. the Longbow in the Medieval Period
*Could this device have changed medieval European history?
==References==
* Basic Set, p. 182.
* GURPS Low-Tech, p. 74: ST rating of bows
Category:Skills