Doesn't seem to have any exceptions for ranged weapons, so it should work as written for both modes. If you put a frost rune on a gun it'd work and siccatite is just a fancy way of doing that.
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The rules lean against it, but it's a GM's call officially:I figured they can only be made out of wood and dark wood. But maybe it's fine to make them out of metal? That seems off. Not too sure on thatThat makes sense. That's one more interesting benefit of firearms over bows I suppose. Since they're made of metal typically, you've got a lot more options for prescious materials while bows just have the wood options, which I think is only one.I don't think there's anything that forbids precious material bows anywhere though?
Core Rulebook pg. 577 4.0 Most items are made from readily available materials—usually leather, wood, or steel—but some weapons and armor are made from more exotic materials, giving them unique properties and other advantages. Weapons made from precious materials are better able to harm certain creatures, and armor of these materials provides enhanced protection.Source
Most materials are metals; they can be used to make metal weapons and armor. The GM is the final arbiter of what items can be made using a material. An item can be made with no more than one precious material, and only an expert in Crafting can create it. Some rare and exotic materials require master or even legendary proficiency.
A material’s Price depends on how hard it is to work, its scarcity, and its purity; most items made with precious materials use an alloy, blend, or coating rather than using the material in its purest form. The three grades of purity for precious materials are low-grade, standard-grade, and high-grade. Regardless of a precious material’s purity, an item made from it gains the full effects of the precious material, but creating higher-level items and more powerful magic runes with precious material requires greater purity.
Some precious materials are available only at certain grades. For instance, adamantine can’t be low-grade, and orichalcum must be high-grade. Items made of materials with a lower grade than expected for the item’s level, or of a higher grade than necessary, will mention the precious material’s grade.
I think bows from Metal are even a thing (I hope I don't Mix up some Fantasy novel with my knowledge :P)
The throwing arms of many crossbows are metallic though
Since we are in Fantasy anyway and Deal with magical Materials one can of course always argu 'magic!'
And bows inlaid with Metal to get the magic from that could certainly also Work and look really fancy
Seems so. It would be a shame for archers to be left out of orichalchum since that's the sort of capstone for weapons if you can get it. Gotta go inventor archer to get that lol.
I mean...the real capstone for weapons is generally speaking just plain steel or whatever material they're normally made from. Unless you have a specific need for like cold iron or silver general the extra cost that special material add to create the weapon makes not worthwhile (in most cases) to do so. Orichalcum being a level 18 weapon, is somewhat of an exception in the sense that you may really have nothing better to spend your treasure on except letting you get access to 4 property runes instead of 3. But honestly I'd have to get level 18 first before even considering it.