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<blockquote data-quote="Thunderfoot" data-source="post: 5490137" data-attributes="member: 34175"><p>My first thought - WELCOME - I notice the single post marker.</p><p>Second, don't poison dusk lizards have a natural poison ability? Poison coat a few arrows and your combat ability should be fine. The other thing would be to play up the support role. If the campaign is combat oriented, you've handicapped yourself and well, you'll have to deal with it.</p><p></p><p>If the campaign is a mix of role play and combat, I think the fact that you are a lizardman ranger in a party would be enough to keep it interesting even if you lack tactical prowess at high levels. besides, with many shot, etc as feats, I don't think you are as handicapped as you think you are. (unless you are equating sheer damage numbers with effective, in which case, stop it. <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=":)" /> )</p><p></p><p>Rangers are skirmish experts. You area light infantry, you track, hit and fade. Much like the US Army Rangers of today. They are an elite light infantry force, but they suck against tanks, rocket attacks and long term engagements, it's not what they are trained to do. Long weeks on patrol, scouting, intelligence gathering, harassing enemy troop formations, these should be your focus. If you make friends with the party's rogue you two should be an unstoppable fighting team - you hit and fade from afar and then the rogue hits and fades close in. Lather, rinse, repeat.</p><p></p><p>Hope this helps.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Thunderfoot, post: 5490137, member: 34175"] My first thought - WELCOME - I notice the single post marker. Second, don't poison dusk lizards have a natural poison ability? Poison coat a few arrows and your combat ability should be fine. The other thing would be to play up the support role. If the campaign is combat oriented, you've handicapped yourself and well, you'll have to deal with it. If the campaign is a mix of role play and combat, I think the fact that you are a lizardman ranger in a party would be enough to keep it interesting even if you lack tactical prowess at high levels. besides, with many shot, etc as feats, I don't think you are as handicapped as you think you are. (unless you are equating sheer damage numbers with effective, in which case, stop it. :) ) Rangers are skirmish experts. You area light infantry, you track, hit and fade. Much like the US Army Rangers of today. They are an elite light infantry force, but they suck against tanks, rocket attacks and long term engagements, it's not what they are trained to do. Long weeks on patrol, scouting, intelligence gathering, harassing enemy troop formations, these should be your focus. If you make friends with the party's rogue you two should be an unstoppable fighting team - you hit and fade from afar and then the rogue hits and fades close in. Lather, rinse, repeat. Hope this helps. [/QUOTE]
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