Avalanche hurlers are rangers who excel at flexibility in combat, focusing on neither melee nor ranged combat like most rangers but instead emphasizing both. Ever resourceful avalanche hurlers are equally effective in a melee or from a short distance. For this purpose avalanche hurlers specialize in the use of two smaller melee weapons that can be thrown effectively, such as daggers or small hammers. Though they lose range and damage through this avalanche hurlers gain an increased versatility beyond that of most warriors.
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- Avalanche hurler
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| - Avalanche hurlers are rangers who excel at flexibility in combat, focusing on neither melee nor ranged combat like most rangers but instead emphasizing both. Ever resourceful avalanche hurlers are equally effective in a melee or from a short distance. For this purpose avalanche hurlers specialize in the use of two smaller melee weapons that can be thrown effectively, such as daggers or small hammers. Though they lose range and damage through this avalanche hurlers gain an increased versatility beyond that of most warriors.
- Prerequisite: Ranger The first avalanche hurlers were dwarf slaves in the ancient realms of the giants. Tempered by suffering and endless labor, and without access to soldierly methods, these dwarves tailored their ways of fighting to their work tools. They developed martial techniques that allowed them to be flexible in combat. A rebel needs ranged capability to kill in ambushes and slay retreating adversaries. Skill in melee is required to stand up to larger and quicker foes. Landslide Strike Avalanche Hurler Attack 11 Encounter (Special) ✦ Requirement: You must be wielding two melee weapons.
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| - You must be wielding two melee weapons.
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| - Strength vs. AC or Dexterity vs. AC , one attack per target
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- Melee or Ranged weapon
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| - Before the attack, you can shift 2 squares
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| - Avalanche Hurler Attack 11
- Avalanche Hurler Utility 12
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| - Avalanche Hurler
- Landslide Strike
- Quick-Draw Trick
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| - You draw and stow your weapons with dazzling speed.
- You hurtle forward, lashing out with your weapons at the end of
your advance.
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| - You draw or stow one or two weapons.
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| - Prerequisite: Ranger The first avalanche hurlers were dwarf slaves in the ancient realms of the giants. Tempered by suffering and endless labor, and without access to soldierly methods, these dwarves tailored their ways of fighting to their work tools. They developed martial techniques that allowed them to be flexible in combat. A rebel needs ranged capability to kill in ambushes and slay retreating adversaries. Skill in melee is required to stand up to larger and quicker foes. Revolutionary dwarves took up their hammers and axes. They threw these tools into the faces of their oppressors. Then, hammering and hewing from underfoot, the first avalanche hurlers brought their outsized masters down and escaped to the wilderness. They settled in underground halls they cut for themselves, places too small for their enemies to invade. Dwarves then made war on giants in Moradin’s name. Dwarf clans have maintained the avalanche hurler fighting style across the generations. They preserve their earliest original combat style, but they never held it so sacred that they failed to give it to allies among all sorts of folk. Further, the avalanche hurler might have been originally recorded in dwarven folklore, but other races developed similar military methods independently. As an ever resourceful avalanche hurler, you are effective both in close combat and at range. Rather than mastering one ranger fighting style, you embrace both, using thrown melee weapons as your chosen instruments of death. What you lose in range and damage, you make up for with your versatility, being able to make attacks against adjacent enemies and then send your weapons flying against those beyond your reach. Throwing Action (11th level): When you spend an action point to take an extra action, you can make a ranged basic attack with a light thrown weapon or a heavy thrown weapon as a free action. This ranged attack does not provoke opportunity attacks. You can then take an extra action. Throwing Master (11th level): When you use a light thrown weapon or a heavy thrown weapon as a ranged weapon, increase the weapon’s damage die by one size. Uncanny Thrower (16th level): You take no penalty to attack rolls when using a light thrown weapon or a heavy thrown weapon against a target at long range. Landslide Strike Avalanche Hurler Attack 11 Encounter (Special) ✦ Requirement: You must be wielding two melee weapons. Special: Before the attack, you can shift 2 squares Target: One or two creatures Attack: Strength vs. AC (melee; main weapon and off-hand weapon) or Dexterity vs. AC (ranged), one attack per target Hit: 2[W] + Strength modifier + Dexterity modifier damage. Quick-Draw Trick Avalanche Hurler Utility 12 At-Will (Special) ✦ Effect: You draw or stow one or two weapons.
- Avalanche hurlers are rangers who excel at flexibility in combat, focusing on neither melee nor ranged combat like most rangers but instead emphasizing both. Ever resourceful avalanche hurlers are equally effective in a melee or from a short distance. For this purpose avalanche hurlers specialize in the use of two smaller melee weapons that can be thrown effectively, such as daggers or small hammers. Though they lose range and damage through this avalanche hurlers gain an increased versatility beyond that of most warriors. The first avalanche hurlers are believed to have been dwarven slaves who rebelled against their giant masters and improvised the avalanche hurler's unique fighting style as a result, throwing their work tools as improvised weapons and ultimately succeeding in their rebellion. Whether these stories are true is ultimately unimportant as the style was developed indepedently by other races later on and is not a particularly dwarven tradition. However, the path of an avalanche hurler does remain an optimal one for rangers constantly beset upon by larger foes.
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