User blog comment:Deus Gladiorum/What should be in the next Skyrim update?/@comment-4057437-20120711073637/@comment-4057437-20120712102713

The English longbow isn't found in Skyrim. If you believe the stats for the Mongol bow, we have a bridge... Primative humans were able to kill mammoths, (and drive them to extinction), with spears and javalins. If you can see a fireball, it is radiating energy and losing power. Ice bolts are projectiles like bullets, which lose energy due to air friction.

The wilfull suspension of disbelief, ( a term used in literature), is made easier if there is a thread of realism. Why else all the effort put in the graphics, especially those involving motion such as water, smoke & fire, etc.