{"id":3509,"date":"2025-06-27T16:27:42","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T16:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.darkon.org\/?p=3509"},"modified":"2025-06-27T16:27:42","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T16:27:42","slug":"sniper-playtest-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darkon.org\/index.php\/2025\/06\/27\/sniper-playtest-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Sniper Playtest Change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At 15th Rank, a Ranger learns the skill \u2018Sniper\u2019.&nbsp; (PLAYTEST &#8211; 1 Year from 2024-12-14, Modified 2025-06-21)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While only holding a Bow or Crossbow (including the projectiles for them), they may choose to make an aimed shot. To do this they call, \u201cCasting Sniper!\u201d and perform a TEN second count before firing. They do not need to keep the bow drawn during this.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Until the arrow is fired, if the caster speaks to communicate in-character (i.e. anything other than an out-of-character necessity), fights, actively blocks something, moves (or is moved) more than 12 inches from their starting position, or is hit by a weapon (including shafts), the ability is disrupted and they must begin again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is no 5-step rule, and so the player may not move out of the area they were in at the time the cast began. However,&nbsp; it is still a skill and not a spell, so dispelling has no effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The very next arrow fired will <mark style=\"background-color:#f78da7\" class=\"has-inline-color has-black-color\">ignore skins when no armor is worn<\/mark>. Shields stop arrows as normal, and Missile Deflection works as always.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 15th Rank, a Ranger learns the skill \u2018Sniper\u2019.&nbsp; (PLAYTEST<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3510,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3509\/revisions\/3510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}