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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gamerprinter" data-source="post: 5259819" data-attributes="member: 50895">Rangers and slings?The Ranger... name is fine, replace the appropriate Knowledge skills as the other classes, restrict to medium armor (no breastplate), and all shields, except tower shields. Everything else works as is. One thing though, there might be an issue with one of the Combat Styles. In the Celtic world bow and arrows were used for hunting, not combat. The Celts did use several missle weapons, spear, javelin, but most notably the sling. Looking at the Pathfinder weapon equipment list, the sling is a rather pathetic weapon. Sling: cost 0, dam sm: 1d3, dam med: 1d4, x2, range: 50', bludgeoning. However, in the real world, in the hands of an expert, using a fist sized stone, a sling can fracture a skull even through an iron helmet, or break ribs, shoulders, limbs - a sling bullet is a bone breaking weapon. It can even puncture armor. Rather than reinvent the sling, I've created the Celtic War Sling, able to cast larger stones than a standard sling so damage moves up one level. War Sling: cost 1, dam sm: 1d4, dam med: 1d6, 19-20/x2, range: 50', bludgeoning. Just a little more kick and better chance for crits. I've already created the Clan Warrior feats: War Sling Adept that increases the range (though I see, I had the sling's range wrong, it should be 75'), and the War Sling Master: crits are automatically confirmed. Ideally for the setting the Ranger would not have access to Bow feats, but instead the War Sling, and alter existing bow feats to apply to using a sling (point blank range, precise shot, improved precise shot, pinpoint targeting, shot on the run, rapid shot) replace far shot with War Sling Adept, require War Sling Adept, point blank range, and precise shot in order to take War Sling Master. I said ideally though, so it might be better just to add War Sling as a third Combat Style, and leave the rest of the Ranger alone. GP</blockquote>

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