Arrows in PHB what kind are they


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Arrows in the PF PHB, what kind are they.

Do they have metal tips ?
Do they have arrmor heads ?
Do they have nothing, just sharp pointed wood ends ?

Just wondering, was watching "Robin of Sherwood", and noticed they were shooting arrows with just wooded tips.

Then i look in the PF PHB, and did not see what there was listed. The picture of Crossbow Bolts, shows them as all wood (no metal), and was wondering if the arrows listed in the PHB damage area were also all wood with no metal.


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I've always assumed that they have metal arrow heads.

Even primitive arrows have had some kind of rock head.

And when you add in things like adamantine arrows (which to me only means the arrow head - and can be recovered but will need a new shaft and fletching).


Oliver McShade wrote:

Arrows in the PF PHB, what kind are they.

Do they have metal tips ?
Do they have arrmor heads ?
Do they have nothing, just sharp pointed wood ends ?

Just wondering, was watching "Robin of Sherwood", and noticed they were shooting arrows with just wooded tips.

Then i look in the PF PHB, and did not see what there was listed. The picture of Crossbow Bolts, shows them as all wood (no metal), and was wondering if the arrows listed in the PHB damage area were also all wood with no metal.

The game is an abstract, so little differences like steel vs stone tip arrow heads aren't so important. I think the simple answer is the game treats them the same.

If you want a simple way to treat plain wooden tips differently from a steel headed arrow, just call the standard arrows in core wooden, and treat masterwork arrows as steel-tipped.

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