The simple answer and the one I believe most can agree on is to make the game more entertaining, and keep interest.

I feel for me its much more then that. I create characters on my own interests and dreams. I feel immersing myself into a character helps me forget the real world while I'm playing. I was in an accident and lost my best friend as a teenager, this part year. Its been extremely difficult for me because I was driving the vehicle we were in. When I role play a character, I become that character while i'm playing. It works as an escape from the struggles of the real world and lets you become that strong 2h warrior or stealthy assassin and your in control of everything in a fiction world that you can do what ever you please in. I guess bottom line is it helps you escape and be something that you could normally only dream about.

Thats my reason behind my role playing, feel free to share yours.

So then I can find an escape from this life.
My real life is so much better than this one.

I create unique characters with their own personality. I then let them tell me their story. Every decision, direction, and dialog choice is made from their personality. If it is not fitting for that character...we don't go there or do that.

I'm chained down due to legal shenanigans for the time being. No job, no prospects, full-on NEET until I can at least acquire an ID card and a GED to start working my way up in the world with a 2-year. A few years ago, I was a much... Well, a much cooler person. I taught myself sword-fencing from watching videos of masters and reading books on the subject, until I could at the very least put on a show and spar well (idk how well my skills would hold in real combat), taught myself to hunt small game with a bow and dagger (but I broke three bows as my draw strength improved and they were all fairly cheap, since my family was pretty poor, then broke a fourth that I made myself that was pretty terrible anyway), ran several miles a day, wrote ten pages single-spaced with normal margins minimum on the various novels I was writing (never finished one, but I got three past 200 pages and one almost complete at about 400 before I ran out of steam- I originally wanted to try publishing over Amazon, but real life concerns overshadowed my ability to focus on a story long enough to finish), had some amount of Internet celebrity for some minour solo programming projects I did here and there and read a book every day or two. I had school for much of this time, mind you, but I also only slept about two hours a night and kept myself going with caffeine; Every week or two I'd sleep twelve hours on a random night to make up for it, but still save a lot of time I felt was wasted sleeping. During this time I also played less videogames than any other point during my life.

As serious advlt issues, the expectation for me to support my family (followed by the failure of that family to give me the means to support them), the lack of money and so forth piled up, I became sedate and more dependent on a small circle of friends than on myself.

When I roleplay, I feel the same dynamism and rush as I did doing things I enjoyed during that period in my life- Once again, I'm out hunting (though the roleplaying environment allows me to hunt humans as well without much penalty or, in most cases, remorse), or I'm sparring with swords, or I'm simply going out for hours and exploring. I'm talking to people, manipulating them, exerting my will on the world, and most importantly, I'm weaving a new story that doesn't involve my constant care, attention and recollection to keep consistent, and again I'm the fifteen-year-old with a cool attitude that always knows exactly what he wants from the world, not the eighteen-year-old who spends most of his time just waiting for the chance to be that person again.

For your bow problem, your draw strength won't break them, Just save up some money for a 40# recurve bow. Those can pull up to 32" draw lengths, and when you're in the bush, you may sometimes won't have the room to pull that far. I'm currently using a 40# recurve and it's good, just haven't had the time to hunt with it due to the season not being open yet.

Thanks for the advice. I've been thinking of getting a new one for a while now with money I scrounge from odd jobs, but I live further in town so there's not many places to go out in the wilderness. What would break a cheaper bow, just wear and tear?