I know there is another thread, but I felt like I needed to start something different. I know that ranging isn\'t implimented yet, but my character is an archer, and he trained himself. He made a makeshift bow with a dagger (will be told in future stories) and tied a string to it, it did not work very well, but it did protect him in the hills. The arrowtips were made of flint, the shaft was just wood cut with his dagger, and there were no feathers at the end.
The point is, I\'d like for bowmaking to be a little different than swords, and so on. We need makeshift bows, that can only be made in places with trees. Other weapons, such as swords, could not be made in a forest, unless perhaps, they used a sharp tree branch as one, which wouldn\'t work too well, and wouldn\'t add to realism. There should be more ways to train skills than just trainers. My character taught himself how to use the bow, he didn\'t go to...say, Percival, because he didn\'t know he would be put through a test of survival. Also, for any future ideas, please don\'t have blacksmiths sell bows, that would be VERY annoying. Blacksmiths work with metal, not wood. They could sell arrowtips, but not a whole bow and fully-crafted arrows.
Just a few ideas (I thought them up in about five seconds, well, typed, anyway...but, it\'s true. More archery realism is needed, and these may help if not already planned. I\'m half-asleep, too, so sorry if it\'s hard to understand).
