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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shirt Guy John" data-source="post: 475104" data-attributes="member: 2356">Yeah, I thought about that while I was typing, but my original concept was that the CT would drop out of the way of a melee attack, fall prone, and fire a bolt into their opponent from a surprise-like position.Well if you're saying that they're too high for the what the class provides, then cool, I get to add more stuff <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />.Well, aside from my agreeing that they could probably be standard weapons anyways, I was thinking that the mighty-draw would either require a longer reload time(which would make crossbows insane), or more simply a minimum Str to draw it back to the required position.  Hm.... I don't know, changing it to a Str mod would really have almost the same effect, but I happen to like the odd str requirements.  I guess my feeling was that since a strong character could load a bunch of Mighty-Draw crossbows and then distribute them to his weaker allies, the requirement needed to be a little steeper, but not way different.Thanks, although a lot of this class was constructed with MotW turned to the Deepwood Sniper PrC, so a few abilities were borrowed from there. Well, it's included in the "In the Thick" ability, if that's what you're asking.  And as for "In the Thick"'s balance issue, I was thinking along the lines of the opponent's loss of dexterity to AC, not the firing/loading in melee part.This was more of a flavor-based decision(though I guess that would be hard to pick out without me including any flavor text at all).  Really, I was thinking primarily for humans, but obviously Elves that turned away from their ancestral weapons could use this class, so I included them too.Well, I was going to say that I had intended to exclude small races because they couldn't use the Heavy Crossbow, but now that I actually read the Heavy Crossbow entry, that's gone.  Personally I picture a character with this class to be more agile and skilled, and I didn't see Dwarves and Half-Orcs that way.  Now, though, I believe I'll eliminate the race requirement completely. *Poof* it's gone.I did just that... the first part.Alright.  I'm thinking about combining "Hit the Deck" and the questionable part of "In the Thick" to bring the concept closer to what I had originally imagined.  Here goes(I've listed both so you see the changes to each):Thanks Nifft and CCamfield.</blockquote>

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