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Message: <blockquote data-quote="styrix" data-source="post: 2781594" data-attributes="member: 39588">More errata?We've been playing a stormwrack based campaign for a while now, and we love this book. For now, my two major problems with the book have been with visibility and the harpoon.There are very few rules for begining distance for encounters. They recomend 2d6+2 x 100 feet for starting distance, but it is very hard to find, and fairly arbitrary. They don't talk about at all how far off on the ocean you can sea various objects. For example, give optimal weather, a mountainous island might be seen at 20 miles? How far can a ship of varying size be seen? The only rules mentioned for this kind of thing are in feet, but at sea you can see for miles, especially with a great spot check, eyes of the eagle, on a 40 foot mast, yada yada.On the harpoon. Lillikakooet is wielding a harpoon, which is an exotic range weapon. He doesn't have proficiency in it, so should have a -4 to his attacks. He is also using it as melee weapon, which might be possible, but strictly speaking, is not by the rules. Looking at the harpoon in the equipement chapter, there is nothing saying it can be used as a melee weapon. I'd guess it is like a really big javelin, so should be listed as an exotic 2-handed weapon, not an exotic range weapon, and then have in the entry that it can be thrown with one hand, but used in melee with 2 hands, with a 10 foot reach, and a -4 to attacks. Or they should just redesign it altogether. I'm playing a Leviathan hunter (non Darfellan) and I'd love to use a harpoon, but as it's listed, it is too confusing to be useful.As a finaly positive note, for non sea-farers, the Leviathan Hunter is a great PrC even for non sea-faring campaigns. There is absolutely nothing in the PrC that is restricted to water, so it'd be great for anyone that likes to play a hunter of huge aberrations, animals, magical beasts, and dragons.</blockquote>

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