Sling ranger

[vash]

I am trying to reconcile a sling with the switch hitter. I'm planning on playing a gnome. GM has said that I can use rapid reload on sling. I'm just not sure about the other feats. I'm also not sure how useful rapid shot will be for me. It seems to imply that it's mainly good at low levels, and I think we're starting at level 4 or higher. I also am not sure if manyshot can apply to slings. If anyone has the apg and thinks any of the ranger stuff in that would help, tell me. I'm using a heavy pick, by the way. I don't really like the look of a pickaxe, and the flavor is important to me.

[0gre]

There is a nice halfling alternate trait that lets them reload a sling as a free action. It's not gnome but... close.

I'm not too familiar with the ranger stuff. The skirmisher is nice from what I've skimmed. Urban ranger seems kind of meh... not sure what you are looking for.

[vash]

Ill look into the trait. The background for the gnome is he came from a race that lived in an arctic area and were expert at guerilla warfare in the surrounding mountains. He is in an order that hunts umber hulks in the outside world. So arctic stuff is background, but not where he lives

[The 8th Dwarf]

vash wrote:

I am trying to reconcile a sling with the switch hitter. I'm planning on playing a gnome. GM has said that I can use rapid reload on sling. I'm just not sure about the other feats. I'm also not sure how useful rapid shot will be for me. It seems to imply that it's mainly good at low levels, and I think we're starting at level 4 or higher. I also am not sure if manyshot can apply to slings. If anyone has the apg and thinks any of the ranger stuff in that would help, tell me. I'm using a heavy pick, by the way. I don't really like the look of a pickaxe, and the flavor is important to me.

You should be able to load a sling with more than one shot. In warhammer it halved the range. - Maybe many shot can represent that. Also loading a sling is not a mechanical action like a crossbow so I would allow all bow feats to apply.