First Time Winning Angband

[DavidMedley]

Do a search for arrows vs armor.

I've watched a lot of this kind of stuff

[DavidMedley]

I'm not getting your point. Is it that arrow heads are sometimes not recoverable?

[Pete Mack]

@David--
In the videos, almost no part of the arrows are recoverable *if* they hit plate armor head on. But in Angband, that is not the only type of target. This has little to do with game play as it stands, but I don't see refurbishment of arrows as particularly likely or useful.
A way to help this is to do the same with archer types that is already done with rogues for ?PD.
Give them some modest chance to drop (say) 3d7 arrows, with the quality of the drop determined by monster depth.

[DavidMedley]

Rogues get extra ?PD drops??

[Pete Mack]

Yes. Just like caster types tend to drop class-appropriate books. UnAngband already does this, IIRC.

[Nick]

A way to help this is to do the same with archer types that is already done with rogues for ?PD.
Give them some modest chance to drop (say) 3d7 arrows, with the quality of the drop determined by monster depth.

This is a decent idea.

[DavidMedley]

I heard that books were boosted for casters, but I didn't know this was a widespread thing. Yeah, increasing arrow drops is a very simple way to make Rangers' lives a bit easier.

[DavidMedley]

Could even be explained away as a passive fletchery ability. Rangers find/recover/repair/jerry-rig arrows better than all other classes.