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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 565088" data-attributes="member: 710">Melee fighters can be very dangerous when fighting opponents that focused on ranged combats. This is especially true in tight places (space stations & ships, cities), when there is little room for maneuvers.These melee fighters fare well when using Trips (especially Improved Trip - see Monks) or Grapples. Pressing Attack is a "must" Feat for these guys.Disarms or sunders might be useful as well. This can be compensated when the ranged-fighters have the tumble skill (and do not steadily suffer from AOOs - remember an AOO may not be a regular attack but also a trip!)Mechanist can pose a serious threat in melee when attacking opponents using ranged weapons or Power Armors (sabotage) Remember this if some of the players want to play Monks or maybe Barbarians.Speaking of Barbarians: If someone wants to play one, be aware that Rage is useless in Ranged combat (except you maybe able to carry a heavier weapon, which is rarely a problem), so remind him of this.(Or "invent" a new Feat that grants some benefits - I used "Rambo`s Rage", which effectively increased the size of the character when figuring out what ranged weapons he might use. I also adapted the Monkey Grip Feat for this, and allowed the user to ignore the penalties for using long-arms onehanded. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> )Another, interesting character class: Rogue.For NPCs as well as PCs - using Ambidexterity and Two Gun Shooting, he might use a Taser in his first hand and a Blaster Pistol (or silenced Autopistol) in his offhand. Taser stuns opponent, opponent loses Dex Bonus, opponent suffers from sneak attack. (Though you might rule-zero this - I did not, but until now, no one could use it)Speaking of Rogue, I must think of Skill Points:There are some useful and probably neccessary new Skills - many players might find their characters have to few skill points.There are some ways to deal this: a) Tell them to stop whining.b) Consider using a highter point-buy (if you use point-buy), so they are able to get a higher Intelligencec) Bump up skill points per level (approx. +2 / level)d) Remove some not really useful skills or skills that seem to overlap:Cryptography and Decipher Script could be defined as one skillAppraise might be a Knowledge Skill (does not really change something) or becomes part of the Diplomacy Skill.Maybe combine skills like Balance, Tumble, Jump, Climb. (maybe Acrobatics - Balance & Tumble; and Atlehtics - Jump and Climb. Not sure if this makes sense <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> )Urban Lore could be instantly dropped and combined with Gather Information. Handle Animal and Animal Empathy might become one skill (and make it a special abilities from Rangers and Druids to use it in an Animal Empathy way?)Mustrum Ridcully</blockquote>

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