# Atlatl or throwing balance could use some work

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/atlatl-or-throwing-balance-could-use-some-work/10608>\
**Category:** The Drawing Board\
**Created:** [September 29, 2015, 5:22am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/atlatl-or-throwing-balance-could-use-some-work/10608 "2015-09-29T05:22:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![saltmummy626](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/saltmummy626/32/300_2.png) [@saltmummy626](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/saltmummy626)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 5:22am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/atlatl-or-throwing-balance-could-use-some-work/10608/1 "2015-09-29T05:22:11Z")

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Just noticed today that atlatls are terribly under powered. They use throwing skill as their determining factor, my character is at level 5 in throwing. the atlatl throws a javalin 13 spaces and always seems to do between 3 and 8 points of damage consistently. When I throw the javalins by hand though, I hit for as low as 20 points, to as high as 47 points and the range remains relatively unchanged at 12 spaces.

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**Author:** ![Random\_dragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4da419/32.png) [@Random\_dragon](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Random_dragon)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 6:09am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/atlatl-or-throwing-balance-could-use-some-work/10608/2 "2015-09-29T06:09:46Z")

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I blame having balanced them with the range and damage of a character with no throwing skill and 8 strength. .\_.

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**Author:** ![Logrin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/logrin/32/209_2.png) [@Logrin](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Logrin)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2015, 10:30am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/atlatl-or-throwing-balance-could-use-some-work/10608/3 "2015-09-30T10:30:17Z")

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couldn’t it just work like the railgun cbm instead? Just flat increasing range?

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**Author:** ![Random\_dragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4da419/32.png) [@Random\_dragon](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Random_dragon)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2015, 3:26pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/atlatl-or-throwing-balance-could-use-some-work/10608/4 "2015-09-30T15:26:12Z")

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That would be a useful feature if gun-type items could actually do that. \>.\>