A strength penalty makes composite bows risky, so backup bows are required unless the bow is enchanted with Adaptive.įor a warrior or rogue using a bow for some potshots, it's no biggy. Similarly, having quick access to backup bows and swords for melee is necessary as dedicated archers are going to be using composite longbows with a damage bonus equal to their strength bonus. The efficient quiver doesn't require you to completely fill any or all pockets to be used, but you can only retrieve items you have placed into it. The demand for a steady supply of ammo is too high. The efficient quiver doesn't create items, 'produce' in these sense means to 'show or provide (something) for consideration, inspection, or use. I keep literally hundreds of arrows on my archer because I can easily go through that many in a single dungeon, and that's with using Mend after combat to repair broken arrows from missing targets.Īny dedicated archer character cannot function using a regular quiver. After playing this card, you may succeed at a Ranged 9 check to recharge this card instead of discarding it. An archer with feats burns through at least 5 arrows a round, potentially double that with Snap Shot and Combat Reflexes if anything gets near them. Efficient Quiver View source Efficient Quiver HUNTER-2, INQUIS-2 item Accessory Magic Check to acquire Dexterity Ranged 7 Powers Discard this card to search your deck for a weapon that has the Bow or Spear trait and add it you your hand. That is precisely why the Efficient Quiver was created. Which is where you would indeed store 100 arrows or more - while keeping the 2~3 dozen allowed in your quiver for combat access. The backpack, handy haversack or bag of holding is for your long-term storage. Much like a bandolier, pouch or other such items. (Handy Haversack is questionable, though wouldn't keep up with higher BAB.)

So you can't use a backpack instead of a quiver. Note that you do NEED a quiver to use arrows in combat, as you can't pull from a backpack as the same kind of action as you can pull from a quiver. As you can simply store your arrows in a backpack (potentially in some sort of sack or otherwise bundled for 'flavour'). If you're carrying around half a dozen or more quivers you're just being silly. The main reason why someone would have two quivers is if there's an extended combat expected and you don't want to spend time refilling your quiver or if you have quivers with specialized loadouts set up and want to easily swap between the two.Ĭourse, a higher level character would have a magical quiver which resolves both issues as they have a much larger storage amount and often due to the nature of the magic allow you to draw the exact arrow you want regardless of how many there are in there.Įven with a mundane quiver it is assumed that its set up in such a way that you can pick out special arrows from among the mundane ones. Then have their other arrows stored in a backpack or similar 'proper storage'. Practical approach? Any ranger would have one, maaaaybe two quivers.

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