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<blockquote data-quote="atom crash" data-source="post: 2101250" data-attributes="member: 22162">Just for the record, I agree with Patryn. Not that I think my opinion holds significant weight, but he's not the only one who holds this funny notion that in 3.0 the flanking rules said rather explicitly that you can't flank with a ranged weapon and the 3.5 revision muddied the waters. Intentional change or just some dumb random mistake? I tend to think it was intentional. After all, if I chalked it up to a dumb random mistake and kept going I might lay awake at night wondering what else in the 3.5 revision might be messed up.So, in a nutshell, here it is:You cannot gain a +2 flanking bonus with a ranged weapon. The rules explicitly say you only get the flanking bonus on a melee attack.You can flank with a ranged weapon. Flanking isn't conditional on the bonus; the bonus is conditional on flanking. Flanking is conditional on your position in relation to an ally and an opponent.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="atom crash, post: 2101250, member: 22162"] Just for the record, I agree with Patryn. Not that I think my opinion holds significant weight, but he's not the only one who holds this funny notion that in 3.0 the flanking rules said rather explicitly that you can't flank with a ranged weapon and the 3.5 revision muddied the waters. Intentional change or just some dumb random mistake? I tend to think it was intentional. After all, if I chalked it up to a dumb random mistake and kept going I might lay awake at night wondering what else in the 3.5 revision might be messed up. So, in a nutshell, here it is: You [B]cannot[/B] gain a +2 flanking bonus with a ranged weapon. The rules explicitly say you only get the flanking bonus on a melee attack. You [B]can[/B] flank with a ranged weapon. Flanking isn't conditional on the bonus; the bonus is conditional on flanking. Flanking is conditional on your position in relation to an ally and an opponent. [/QUOTE]

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