Mix in some Ranger levels for some bonus archery abilities, add in Swift Tracker, and voila! A lot of the maneuvers work on ranged attacks, as well as melee ones.įor a long ranged archer, you could consider the Cragtop Archer from Races of Stone (you would need to be a Goliath).įor an order of the bow initiate from Complete Warrior, I'd recommend: Barbarian 1/Fighter 2/ Rogue (Fighter variant) 2/Order of the Bow Initiate 4 - For race, I'd go Raptoran, if it is allowed.įor nice damage, scout from Complete Adventurer is always a fun choice. (It says 'Book of Nine Swords' in much bigger text than that name on the cover, however.)įor archery, warblade is actually really powerful.

Rickynumber24 wrote:You should take a look at the Tome of Battle. It might have something to do with finally matching the warriors to the spellcasters in power level.

(This character can now nearly teleport and nearly turn invisible, once per encounter, or more often if he does stuff to get his maneuvers back.) Despite stories like that, everyone I know seems to be very fond of the book for being balanced. One of my friends is DMing a campaign where he kind of wishes the rogue in his campaign hadn't taken his suggestion of doing a two-level dip into Swordsage at around L8 after all because it increased that character's power level significantly. They're both powerful classes and, because of a thing they introduced in them to make it easier to multiclass into them, are pretty good for a short dip, too. There is something called 'martial maneuvers' introduced in that which are sort of like spells but definitely aren't spells and have a strong flavor of martial arts. (It says 'Book of Nine Swords' in much bigger text than that name on the cover, however.) You should take a look at the Tome of Battle.

3.5 warblade maneuvers