Hey folks, I've delved into the no-man's land of throwing build characters, and I've found what I believe to be a possible opening to take throwing weapons into a niche that should help their power level and define them as their own. Namely, a mounted thrower. My idea mainly coming from the rules on charging whilst mounted stating that you only get one attack because "Essentially, you have to wait until the mount gets to your enemy before attacking, so you can't make a full attack."
As the mount's technically the one doing the charging, it makes sense that this explanation/caveat had to be written in. But, though a minor thing, this ruling leaves an exception for the Charging Hurler feats, as a throwing character can both benefit from a charge and be attacking with no restriction on your mount having to close distance before you can make the opening volley.
Thoughts on this? Given the number of feats necessary to build a throwing specialist and a mounted combatant together, may not be viable. But I was curious if anyone agreed that this would be an exception that the dedicated thrower could use to develop a method of dealing damage that would help them compete with others who can more easily afford their magic weapons and what-not.
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I really like throwing specialists, but I've never been able to play one in a game before. I get thrown into GMing or we already have a heavy lean on Ranged and we need a Melee or... Moving on, I figured out a way to get a huge radius on ranged attacking with throwing weapons. That's where this lovely little diamond in the rough known as "Chakram" comes from. 30ft attack range is pretty nice. Much better than the 10ft ranges of most throwing weapons in that category of martial weapons.
Strong Arm, Supple Wrist is a trait that says if you move 10 feet, you add 10ft on to your range with throwing weapons. Hurling Barbarian adds 10ft to the range on throwing weapons. Shot on the Run says you move and make a ranged attack. That means the threat range on your character is huge if you're careful. Adding a horse just adds gravy into this mix.
Too bad Hurler and Mounted Fury archetypes can't stack...
Wow, no kidding! And here I was thinking of using Amentum bound Javelins which puts my base range at 50' already.