NZLarps Auckland is considering purchasing some bows and arrows to add to our gear library.
I know there has been discussions in the past about whether bows should be available in games and to what extent, and I don’t really want to re-hash that now. It will be up to the game organisers to implement their own games rule set and I do not want to talk about what people do with their own personal bows. But what happens with the society owned bows.
As discussed at committee meeting tonight, we have some concerns about how safely bows can be used inexperience people. If NZLarps purchases bows, then potentially inexperienced crew and games organisers can use them, which has safety issues for everyone attending events.
So we need to develop a policy of using the NZLarps bows, which is the aim of this discussion. A few questions to get the ball rolling:
[ul]*How much training is required to learn to use a bow safely (not necessarily well)?
*Do the game organiser need to undertake this training, or just ensure that users know what they’re doing?
*Do we introduce a Bow Registry for those who have undertaken this training?
*Maintainence of the bows - it was raised that fraying strings etc snapping can be more dangerous than if a sword gets a bit worn/misused. How can we mitigate against this?
*Considering how bows are less robust than other weapons, does the society need to insist on rules so that Archers aren’t mobbed by other fighters so the bows don’t get damaged?
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