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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eldorian" data-source="post: 4095221" data-attributes="member: 10504">Historically, thrown weapons were used as you were closing in to melee, or as a distraction during the stalking phase of a fight.  Using thrown weapons primarily isn't very useful, yes, but you're playing it down too much.  If I have an exploit that removes an enemy's shield bonus with a thrown weapon (often the goal of throwing something), then I consider this to be an improvement.  Also, I would rather like a thrown weapon based specialist to be viable, and it's looking like it will be a rogue with his shuriken (which, btw, are not ninja stars, but throwing spikes, or coins sometimes).In 3e, my barbarians almost always carried javelins as their ranged weapon of choice, due to the str bonus to damage.  So I've always used thrown weapons, even though they weren't optimal most of the time.</blockquote>