He said that he played a mod for Oblivion that made arrows much stronger but also slower to draw, and he liked it so much that it was put into Skyrim. Does anyone know which mod this is? I'm having a hard time finding something like this.

Thanks.

I believe it was Duke Patrick's Combat Archery. You can d/l it from TESAlliance.

Thank you, that seems to be it.

Some doubt that it was DP's Combat Archery. Frankly, whatever Todd played, Duke Patrick's excellent mod is a really well designed system to make archery worthwhile and exciting, and should be used in a game for realism.

I did a pretty exhaustive search based on his comments that it was a mod called better bows. I found a mod by that name but all it did was up the damage - that is it.

There were derivations of the name that I found but none fit the description as well as DP combat archery. In fact most did not fit the description at all.

I suspect Mr. Howard was told the name of the mod and did not actually play it - then he forgot it.