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<blockquote data-quote="Guest 6801328" data-source="post: 7519589">One more thought (or set of thoughts) on this topic:When you choose to focus on melee, either as a tank or a damage-dealer, or some blend of both, you recognize that there are some pretty common situations where you are going to be useless. When you choose to focus on ranged damage, you also know there are going to be some situations where you are useless, but those situations are far less common. And while that could in theory be addressed by the DM, the solutions...because of the overly generous rules for ranged...feel much more contrived.With some tweaks to ranged rules (such as the ideas I offered earlier: that it's harder to hit moving targets at long range at your full attack speed, and that ranged attacks draw AoO's from enemies within reach) it would be more common, without contrivance, for ranged attackers to have to do something other than pewpew at full efficacy.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Guest 6801328, post: 7519589"] One more thought (or set of thoughts) on this topic: When you choose to focus on melee, either as a tank or a damage-dealer, or some blend of both, you recognize that there are some pretty common situations where you are going to be useless. When you choose to focus on ranged damage, you also know there are going to be some situations where you are useless, but those situations are far less common. And while that could in theory be addressed by the DM, the solutions...because of the overly generous rules for ranged...feel [I]much[/I] more contrived. With some tweaks to ranged rules (such as the ideas I offered earlier: that it's harder to hit moving targets at long range at your full attack speed, and that ranged attacks draw AoO's from enemies within reach) it would be more common, without contrivance, for ranged attackers to have to do something other than pewpew at full efficacy. [/QUOTE]

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