From across the myriad planes of reality and boundless aeons, the departed spirit of Wodenkrait heard the word "Archer" and clawed his way back to the mortal realm of the DW Discussion forum...

There is, although what I'd prefer is a generic "fighter" profession with the ability to specialise with skills of the mighty (learned earlier than rank 8). The Knight and Barbarian are specific exceptions to this because they have to be those things by virtual of their social class and therefore make good professions, but having a separate profession for something that can be learned as a skill (albeit to impressive levels) doesn't seem to me to be enough of a distinction to warrant a new profession. It's like the hunter coming along and suddenly none of the other professions can forage for food in the wilderness (I am, of course, stretching a point to prove a point, but you see what I mean - if you allow other professions to forage, you diminish the hunter, whereas before the hunter came along, you could assume that every vagrant adventurer would likely forage when they needed to)..

Welcome back! Always good to have a returning voice join our choir.

If you can have, say, the Assassin as a profession,...

b) I am working on a new spellbook (fanmade with the help of other fans) for improving the elementalist : I hope to finish it in february or march and it would double the number of spells if it interest you.

Developing a new spellbook for Elementalists is almost a minor cottage industry it seems, as I also (long ago) developed a different set of spells for Elementalists in an effort to deal with the profession's significant issues with power and balance. I also reimagined the underpinnings of Elementalism a little to make it feel a bit less like Sorcery b-sides. Happy to share.

I am working on a new spellbook (fanmade with the help of other fans) for improving the elementalist : I hope to finish it in february or march and it would double the number of spells if it interest you.

Would the Archer profession have a grounding in all types of bow, or would they need to specialise in longbow, recurve, compound, etc, and how would they skill manifest itself? Either an Attack bonus with the bow or stating that non-Archer professions lose Attack when using a bow. Would crossbows still be available to all professions as they are less complex?

Is there a current DW mechanic for flammability? If not, the GM could just assign an object hit by a flaming arrow an on-the-fly 'flammability score' and rule that under that score on d10 or whatever results in the ignition of said object.