Anarcoplayba, 5/+1 DR is the same in any form. Any form. Using 'Ghostly Visage' to refer to 5/+1 DR is done simply because.. it is the most common method of attaining said protection.
This doesn't seem to be your point though.. you hold grievance over the fact it is a +1 atk bonus.. and you are aware, mechanically, the only way to achieve this is through wielding a +1 weapon.
You see... sometimes, due to limitations in the engine that runs this game we all play, you find workarounds. Giving skeletons an undroppable +1 atk bonus bow accomplishes allowing them to bypass 5/+1 DR. The OOC reason.. is balance.. they are in a tougher area, and as such.. need to have abilities to make them tougher. Simple. IC.. this could be described in numerous ways. Creativity and imagination are pretty much requisite come a 'role playing game', yes? If there is no IC answer, it can be as simple as.. "Those walking bones are magical... somehow more then other walking bones!"
And as such manage to find a way of putting imbued arrows through there rotten longbows.
I imagine no one ever thought this would raise issue. And it shouldn't proceed any further. If you want rare bows to become more commonplace, I doubt that will happen. But you have already been told, in a few posts now, why skeletons have that Atk bonus. Any further grievance should be PM'd to a developer, maybe?
I have nothing further to say on the subject.
