Archer's and Bowyers - items for sale

[Riven]

*rough note tacked in Scamp's Mug*

Box o' Stirge Wings for sale
Box o' Feathers of Raven for sale
40 hickory shafts for missile weapons
20 oak shafts for missile weapons
Box of venom sacks from miscellaneous spiders

Bracers of the Scout, lv 8, +1 Armor, Darkness 1/day, Camouflage 3x
(Lens of Pricing say Bracers of the Scout is worth 3,768g)

Snake Fang - dagger, lv 10, on hit DC 14, Constitution damage 1-2
(Lens of Pricing says Snake Fang worth 8004 g)

leave note here and I'll get back to you!

[Heinz Rondorf]

How much for the Raven feathers and the oak shafts?

[Chazzler]

I'll offer you 2000 for the stirge feathers and hickory shafts.

I'd also be interested in all your giant and small spider glands.

~Tar Wolfheart

[Riven]

*scribble added at bottom of note*

I know not the value o' these items,
so make an offer, and the highest offer gets them.
I can also fill one or two more boxes o stirge wings if ye give me a good price for it.
-Riven

[Heinz Rondorf]

*scribbles a responce with a sort of saddened heart*

I will give 400 gold for the box of feathers and oak shafts. Its all I have. I need the shafts and feathers to make arrows for my bow.

*Signed* Dustin Koch

P.S. Being a ranger is not a high paying occupation

[Riven]

For a fellow Ranger as meself, 300 true be fine. As I said, don't know the market rate, first time to sell raven feathers and oak shafts.
Riven be my name, and I am a man with spikey hair, and wearing an old faded green wool cloak, unless it be sunny out, in which case ye'll recognize me by my spikey redish hair and goatee. I'll be hanging around Hempstead tomorrow morn, perhaps...and I can show ye where the Ravens hold their moot.

//Heinz - what is your char name?
my log in is Rrraoul
Character is Riven Ring-Cleaver

[Riven]

40 Copper-tipped Falcon Tailed Crossbow Bolts (+1 Piercing Damage) for sale, kobald made but they fly true!
Make an offer.

[Heinz Rondorf]

//My character name is Dustin Koch.

[Crizzan]

Found oak shafts and got stirge wings. Is there a fletcher that can make me some oak arrows? What price would you ask for that? As I'm new to the area, my true is limited, but I have great hopes of gaining more.

[Riven]

// Crizzan - i'm not a bowyer, so cannot make arrows ....but i'm sure in game you can find someone, just asking around. good luck! //

[Crizzan]

OOC:
Bowyers and fletchers are two very different things.
Bowyers make bows of all sorts. They understand bows intricately and craft them lovingly. Some can make bows far better than anything ever expected from ordinary materials, although bows of great quality take more time and carefully selected pieces of material.

Fletchers, on the other hand, make only arrows and bolts (a name for an arrow specifically designed for a crossbow). They know that arrows crafted to fit an individual and his/her bow will always fly farther and strike more accurately than stock arrows. They understand the dynamics of arrows like bowyers understand bows.

If a character could somehow find masters of both crafts and gain both bow and arrows crafted to fit the draw length and strength of their character, they would achieve great increases in damage and accuracy with such things. (As much as +1 H/D) based on historical data from the middle ages. However, the same data indicates that they lose the benefits of such design if they grow stronger... Something about balance....

Just sent to give you something you might like to add to your character's understanding of being an archer... Most archers know such differences and know of the benefits of gaining things crafted by a master, they just have real trouble finding such a creature... Although most will go to any lengths for such things. (Quest idea, maybe?)
End OOC.

[miltonyorkcastle]

///wee, more OOC... unfortunately, due to our woodworking crafting system, a master bowyer (on NWN Layo) will by default be a master fletcher and vice-versa, though you're right, they are two very different things.