soccerchick wrote...
Throwing daggers is cool, don't get me wrong, but why should I throw a measly knife at someone, when an arrow has much more force?
Plus, when you throw daggers, you won't always hit with the blade, they can break, you are far more likely to miss than with an arrow, and finally, you're throwing a perfectly good weapon away. WHY?!
(BTW, I may just have used realism to describe a fantasy land with dragons, elves, magic, and BFS. YMMV.)
The only reason you'd use throwing knives is if your main method of fighting was melee with daggers/knives, and you used the ranged attack in situations where it warranted it.
You definitely get a lot more armor penetration and raw damage to the target from a longbow or a crossbow than you ever will with a thrown knife. Tallis might be able to throw a knife through someone's neck at a few yards, but Sebastian could kill her with one shot from 125 yards with that starkhaven longbow pretty much every time if he's as good as he appears to be with it.