Ammunition (Bow): Arrow(s), Blunt
These arrows have rounded wooden tips.
Benefit: Blunt Arrows deal bludgeoning damage rather than piercing damage. An archer can use a blunt arrow to deal nonlethal damage (at the normal –4 attack penalty for using a lethal weapon to deal nonlethal damage).
Source: Advanced Players Guide
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I am assuming you read that description already, before it was posted here, but were confused by what it meant.
Arrows deal lethal piercing damage. Blunt arrows change that from piercing to bludgeoning damage but it's still lethal because it would have to say "non-lethal" to make it non-lethal. Then it also says that they can be used to deal non-lethal damage if the user wants them to, but he has to suffer the usual -4 penalty that is always applied when anyone makes a non-lethal attack with any lethal weapon.
Hope that clears it up.
There are real life bludgeoning arrows used to hunt birds. They used to be called flu flu arrows with a spiral fletching and a flat tip. Now flu flu mostly refers to the spiral fletching style and new tips have been created like the snarrow and the shocker (one with wire loops to get birds snagged up in, the other with little (non electric) wire points to jab the bird. The spiral fletch reduces the range of the arrow (and makes them easier to retrieve) while providing a twisting motion to the 'punch' of the flathead tip. The arrow stuns the bird out of the sky in the same way smacking a bird with a slingshot rock would.
Its bludgeoning damage for arrows.
A google of bird hunting arrows or flu flu arrows will give you some good examples.
