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So finally, after a long hiatus, I have return to complete this house rule for Dragon Warriors. Elementalists in Dragon Warriors are able to specialise in one primary element and pick two other elements to complement his repertoire. The previous article has looked at variant Earth spells for the Fire Elementalist and today it’s time for Air!

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One of the features of Dragon Warriors is that of the armour bypass roll. Each armour has an Armour Factor and a weapon has a Bypass Roll. Whenever a weapon strikes, you roll the Bypass Roll and try to score higher than the Armour Factor to score a hit. Simple though this design is, it leaves out one thing – being hit by something as thick as a battle-axe, even though it does not draw blood, it ought to have some effects.

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So we added a new Ranged Attack stat for Dragon Warriors – but it stills need some fleshing up so that it is coherent with the rules. So this article will see how attributes influence the stat and add in some archery styles for the Barbarian (which comes right out from our own world!)
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Dragon Warriors comes before the multitude of computer roleplaying games where in the latter (such as Diablo II and various MMOs), a bow wielding character can effectively fire off shots even in tight combat situation (say in a room about 20m by 20m). The rules in Dragon Warriors for archery is quite vague on whether you can pull off ranged attacks in close combat situation.

The idea here is to introduce another statistic to govern the use of ranged attacks, such as bows, crossbows and throwing daggers, as the discipline that goes behind them is different from hand to hand combat.
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The new edition of Dragon Warriors give a powerful “blast” ability to all elemenatlists – for every 1 MP spent, they got to do a blast which does 2d6 points of damage. Checking the stats of an average PCs as given in the book, a 12th rank Knight has 24 Hit Points. A 3-MP blast from an elementalist does 6d6 points of damage. Clearly the damage is off the charts!
What this article proposes is a re-balancing of the raw elemental blast power for the Elementalist. Read more…

The original rules require you to subtract the defender’s Defence from your Attack. Here are what you can do to remove the subtraction steps to speed up combat.
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