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Reading some of the wiki, they say that England had some major bow culture. But even then, welsh longbow men were distinct specialists. Use of the bow took some skill and you couldn't really train a peasant to be good at it too quickly. Archers were specialized and weren't too heavily armoured for straight up fighting and I think a distinct class would be appropriate. I wouldn't mind variations, heavy infantry, light infantry, scouts.
I wonder what the distinct role-playing opportunities of an archer profession would be, over, for example, a fighting profession that specialised in ranged weapons. I do like the idea of non-Albion professions being distinct, and that's really the idea behind the barbarian and thane professions.
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The Hunter was interesting and expanded on dragwars, but I'd prefer a generic skill system rather than giving these to specific professions. I'd say warlock blindfighting and arrow cutting could be skills acquired by the Assassin (Way of the Tiger)...
Yes, anything that can be learned as a skill should be able to be learned as a skill by any character that has the opportunity to learn it.
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Barbarians, not much of a social class in the civilized world. I thought maybe they could make light infantry/scouts but not with chainmail armour.
A barbarian is just a foreign invader - a warrior from another land. This isn't really brought out in the DW rules, per se, but the cultural difficulties such a character would have in Ellesland should be role-played to get the most from this type of character (same with the knight - the social dimension is the biggest differentiator for the knight, not that he can wear plate armour). I'm not sure about describing Legend as "civilised" tho...
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Perhaps a dragwars version 2.0 could have a generic skill system which favours some professions.
One of the biggest things DW is missing is a proper skill system. And so many game systems have skill systems where the skill is less important than the random element, which diminishes the value of skills. Obviously, my approach is infinitely superior in every way shape and form
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http://www.cobwebbedforest.co.uk/librar ... Skills.pdf