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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zelc" data-source="post: 4605041" data-attributes="member: 40496">First off, adding Int to attack rolls is incredibly powerful, even adding half Int would be way too strong as a class ability.  Consider characters could easily get a +8 to Int at high levels, and that will take a character that normally hits 50% of the time to hitting 90% of the time.Doing a ranged defender is interesting, and I think it'd be difficult to design.  What does a defender do?  Usually, a defender tries to have enemies hit him instead of other characters.  That doesn't work so well when your defender is a ranged character.  Even though your ranged defender concept has AoOs on close enemies, that seems more like a controller ability than a defender ability.  The best way of implementing a ranged defender concept that I can think of is either buffing a melee ally into being the "real" defender complete with marks and temporary HP, or having abilities that deter enemies from attacking a protected ally (and protecting only one or two at a time).  Not sure how well a martial character would fit either of those though.</blockquote>