system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[General Fantasy] Why do you think the atlatl is generally unheard of in epic fantasy?

Generally speaking, as non-gunpowder weapons go, it's extraordinarily effective. Plus it's cool. I'm curious if anyone can offer up a reason why we just don't see it brought into epic fantasy tales.  
I've no doubt that some of you can come up with examples where it has been used, but everyone ought to agree that it's vanishingly rare.
gpt
Because bows offer a number of mechanical advantages over atlatls, not least of which is that they are much easier to use. In our own history, to use one world's comparative example, very few societies stuck with the atlatl, especially once they discovered the bow.