Horse Archery

Horse Archery is a technique improving bow skill while on horseback. Modifiers from firing on horseback can never reduce Bow below the Horse Archery skill. For instance, if you had Bow-13 and Horse Archery-11, penalties from the horse couldn't reduce your skill below 11.

• Hard
• Default: Bow-4
• Prerequisites: Bow and Riding
• Maximum: Cannot exceed Bow skill

As the Mounted Shooting skill expanded horseback ranged attacks, Horse Archery is effectively shorthand for Mounted Shooting (Bow/Horse).

Typical Penalties

• -3 for a rideable mount that hasn't trained for war
• -2 if the mount dodged without your knowledge
• Aiming
• Tricks
  • -4 to fire backwards (a Parthian shot)
  • -6 to hang sideways and fire over your mount (useful if your mount has a lot of DR

Other Considerations

• For maintaining control of a mount that wasn't ready for war, see Combat Riding