During the setup for a game that never happened, I was approached about the possibility of a character upgrading a compound bow's strength, this character was already planning on taking the appropriate craft skill, and given my understanding of the construction, I ultimately ruled yes, he could upgrade it by making the requisite checks for the appropriate pieces, as I recall, the difference between a +0 bow and a normal bow of the same type was non existant, and the price change based on +1 and such scaled as 1oo +1 200 +2 etc, I ruled that he could spend 50 to upgrade to plus 1 100 to +2 etc, What would have been your ruling, and what situations have you come across like this?
There is a magic weapon quality that makes the strength of the bow variable. Adaptive is pretty neat
So a Composite Longbow (+3) would have a value of 400 GP, a Craft DC of 21, require about 134 GP in materials, and probably a week of time to craft it, assuming he can reliably hit that DC.
I'm still trying to figure out where you got the 134, iirc the craft cost is one half of what it takes to buy it, mine came directly at request of player, and works just as well as building a new one besides not having an old one to sell.
There is a magic weapon quality that makes the strength of the bow variable. Adaptive is pretty neat
Also, yes, adaptive is nice but not very realistic for a 1st level character.
PS: It took me 3 hours to write this, why? My power went out.
well, looking at the weapon and now knowing that I was thinking of the wrong weapon anyways, I wouldn't have allowed it. i was honestly thinking of the compound.