crescent moon shaped bow?

[Venger]

I am looking for an item that is called a "moon bow" or a "crescent bow" it's shaped like a capital letter C and looks really ridiculous. I didn't find it in the MiC, AEG, or any other usual suspects and my google fu is failing me. any ideas what this weapon is and/or where it is located?

[NeoPhoenix0]

you're probably not thinking of the moonbow spell or the energy bow but i thought i'd put them out there to help brainstorm.

[Venger]

you're probably not thinking of the moonbow spell or the energy bow but i thought i'd put them out there to help brainstorm.

no, it was neither of those things, as this one had a picture (and it wasn't the energy bow, that one's normal looking) I appreciate your help though

[TuggyNE]

It's not the Bow of the Wintermoon, is it?

[ArcturusV]

I wouldn't think so, as the Bow of the Wintermoon isn't really C or Crescent Shaped.

http://ts2.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4823249226105073&pid=15.1

[Baroncognito]

Perhaps a crab bow?

[Logic]

I know the bow you are thinking of, and I am positive it is from the Arms and Equipment Guide (3.0).

I am unsure of exactly where, but I hope I have narrowed your search.

[NeoPhoenix0]

the Larethian Protector pg 112?

picture on pg 113

[Logic]

the Larethian Protector pg 112?

picture on pg 113

That sounds right to me. I thought it was ridiculous when I first saw it too.

[NeoPhoenix0]

charisma clerics and paladins rip evil humanoids apart with it.

[ArcturusV]

Hmm, that must be it. Larethian Protector, page 113 of the Arms and Equipment Guide, least the image of. The description of it is page 112.

Doesn't seem it's a very GOOD bow either. Expend a turn undead as a standard action to deal 1d6 x Charisma Bonus extra damage to evil with your next attack?

Edit: Swordsaged.

[NeoPhoenix0]

evil humanoids. even more useless than evil in general.

evil might actually be useful.

[ArcturusV]

So basically an Orc killer. But by the time you're getting anything that big, you've not been fighting Orcs for several levels.

[Logic]

It could depend on the campaign. Most of my foes in the 2 campaigns I am currently a player in (with the same DM) have been evil NPCs, not monsters.

[NeoPhoenix0]

one of the top rules for rangers know your DM.

now i'm thinking about a range/paladin with reasonable charisma which sounds awful except for the mount.

[TuggyNE]

So basically an Orc killer. But by the time you're getting anything that big, you've not been fighting Orcs for several levels.

Orcs and, y'know, Drow.

*cough*

[ArcturusV]

But it needs to hit evil targets. Everyone knows the Drow Race is now populated solely by Chaotic Good renegades fighting against the reputations of their wholly evil race.

[Baroncognito]

Everyone knows the Drow Race is now populated solely by Chaotic Good renegades fighting against the reputations of their wholly evil race.

Which means my Lawful Good Paladin of Naderi is not quite following the trope?

[NeoPhoenix0]

you can still use it against the rare evil drow pretending to be
Chaotic Good renegades fighting against the reputations of their wholly evil race.

[Ossian]

Orcs in high-level campaigns, the bread and butter of WH40K! If they are good for the Marines, they are good for my PCs :smallamused:

http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/mediawiki/images/b/ba/OrkMob.jpg

[ArcturusV]

Oh, I've done it myself. I've had campaigns where, from level 1 until level 15 when they retired, everything was roughly humanoid enemies. Monsters as the exception. Which my players appreciated "So much easier to feel like heroes when we aren't fighting rats, spiders, dogs, and centipedes at level 1!".

But while something like that was standard for me, and you'd face down 15th level Orcs, etc. I always thought that was kind of unusual. Other DMs I've run with haven't really done it outside occasional high level one off NPCs (Elven Court Wizard, Plot Giver, etc).

[Firest Kathon]

now i'm thinking about a range/paladin with reasonable charisma which sounds awful except for the mount.

Unless you play 3.P (or PF.5 or however you want to call it) and use the PF Paladin who uses Charisma for everything except hitting things :smallbiggrin:.

[JBento]

http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/mediawiki/images/b/ba/OrkMob.jpg

Feh. Needs more dakka.

[SilverLeaf167]

Orcs in high-level campaigns, the bread and butter of WH40K! If they are good for the Marines, they are good for my PCs :smallamused:

http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/mediawiki/images/b/ba/OrkMob.jpg
Somehow these "huge army, rawr" pictures are way more evocative when one realizes how ridiculously stupid such a tactic is in any setting with firearms. Pretty fitting for orcs though (aren't they spelled "ork" in WH?), I guess. :smalltongue:

[Tvtyrant]

Somehow these "huge army, rawr" pictures are way more evocative when one realizes how ridiculously stupid such a tactic is in any setting with firearms. Pretty fitting for orcs though (aren't they spelled "ork" in WH?), I guess. :smalltongue:
Warhammer is stupid. Anyone who says otherwise is trying to sell you something. Mostly Warhammer figurines...
Not to say it is not cool in its own way, but having entire space going species focus on melee combat rather than bombers is crazy.

[SilverLeaf167]

Warhammer is stupid. Anyone who says otherwise is trying to sell you something. Mostly Warhammer figurines...
Not to say it is not cool in its own way, but having entire space going species focus on melee combat rather than bombers is crazy.
Yeah, I'm very much aware of that. From the biggest shoulder guards in the history of fiction (though I think WoW is a close runner-up?) to orks with a psychic hivemind or something along those lines... I really think that if someone didn't mention its stupidity in their marketing speech, they'd be a pretty a horrible salesman. It's like a major selling point of its own.