Ranger - archer AND swordsman?

[dbm]

I have built a character designed to fight both in melee and ranged a bit differently. She is a hybrid Rogue / Ranger. I have taken all melee powers from my rogue half and all ranged powers from my ranger half. In both cases, the powers run of Dex, so I only needed one 18 stat.

Not quite the raw power of a traditional mixed melee / ranged Ranger, but a lot of flexibility.

Cheers,
Dan

 

[knightemplar]

When the original PH came out, I converted a two axe fighter from 3.0 and made him a ranger. Since the hand axes are a heavy thrown weapon, it worked well. They had limited range, enough so I could throw if I was engaged with another opponent and follow it up as soon as killed the other opponent.

There was this one area where the DM was having us fight goblins from three connecting corridors in the room. I waded through all mine with both melee attack and thrown axes and moved to a second corridor before the rest of the party cleared out the contents of the third corridor.