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Originally posted by SixOfSpades:
To give him his due, though, the Generic Archer is almost 100% fair--the only part that's a little unbalanced is that a Fighter Archer gains levels faster than a Ranger Archer, which means it always has a better THAC0, Called Shot, etc., and also gets I think an additional 6 HLAs.
The only way a Generic Archer can get truly cheesy is by Dualing to Mage.
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True, they do advance faster and get more HLA, but lose Stealth. It's still a little uneven, but I agree that it is probably the most balanced class he did (maybe it was the first one he did...
). However, it does get cheesy with the dualclassing options, both the mage and thief. Then again, so does the kensai/mage and kensai/thief. Once again, it comes back to the player. I downloaded Tactics just to install that class, for two reasons:
- I disagree that only humans, half-elves, and elves should be allowed to be best at archery/missile weapons (dwarvish and gnomish crossbowmen and halfling archers and slingers).
- To allow a slinger instead of bows/crossbows, but also a dart thrower.
I agree with both you and Userunfriendly that dualclassing them is just nasty. Lots of cheese, both dualed to thief and mage. But I would just play it singleclassed (a halfling slinger). Slight jump in abilities over the ranger version but enough to make too much difference. Once again, up to the person to exercise some discipline, but having the option to go overbalanced is still out there.