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Someone on the Insurrection boards asked whether we allowed arm-mounted crossbows. It wasn't something we'd considered, to be honest, and so I thought I'd ask here what the issues with them might be, and why we might (or might not) want to allow them.
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My only issue with them is that they look a bit naff.
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I agree with Sarah. Unless you're running a Mad Max game, they just look silly. 
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I had a friend who used them regularly and borrowed them myself a few times in a system that we played for many years without encountering problems.
However I will qualify that by saying that although it was combat heavy system grappling was very rare and we were all experienced LRPers who didn't mind a few bruises. They can be a little clunky and awkward and the crossbow arms can occasionally catch weapons during a fight (although I'm not aware of any weapon damage caused as a result) and if you go in close or grapple the protruding arms can give you a bit of a knock. All of the arm crossbows I've seen have arms that are chunky and curved at the ends so there is no danger of cuts or anything like that and personally I think there no more dangerous than hard armour or elbows when grappling.
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As an aside, does anyone know when arm mounted crossbows were invented / used in the real world?
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Ian Sturrock (6/30/2008)
I agree with Sarah. Unless you're running a Mad Max game, they just look silly. Agreed.  They are safe as anything else is when a large hard object is strapped to your arm and you're not used to it being there... so depends on the person. I, for example, am a bimbling fool and would no doubt strip latex from weapons and remove peoples' teeth if allowed one, but that's me. 
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Nath (6/30/2008)
As an aside, does anyone know when arm mounted crossbows were invented / used in the real world?they werent.. its a purley fantasy invention. the 2 key advantages of a crossbopw are that you can put more energy into it by using a foot styrrup or windlass.. this just isnt possible if you strap it to your arm.. the other advantage of a crossbow is that you dont expose yorself to enemy fiire when hiding behind a battlement (again not an advantage of arm mounting) I'm just waiting for th inevitable flood of posters who will tell me that the Japanese Ninjas invented them in 3 thousand BC and used them to kill teenage mutant ninja elephants
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Nath (6/30/2008)
As an aside, does anyone know when arm mounted crossbows were invented / used in the real world?
AFAIK, never. There's no point - like that person before me said: an armbow implies a one-handed draw, which means a toylike poundage, which means negligible damage. It's the same old difference again - LARP you fight to hit, real life you fight to hurt.
I think I saw one in a dreadful fantasy comic once, and I've seen one in anime.
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