Archers are warriors, and as such make use of maneuvers, specific attacks or other abilities attained through rigorous training.

To use maneuvers, archers must expend aim, which they gain through spending actions.

Maneuvers are almost universally completely physical in nature and have no Force components; they are expressions of the mortal body pushed to its limits. Maneuvers are divided into schools, which represent particular thoughts and approaches to combat, training, and martial abilities. The aim cost and minimum primary ability needed to use a maneuver are indicated on the table to the right.

The archer has a maximum amount of aim, based upon her class level. You gain a bonus to this amount equal to the highest of your Dexterity, Wisdom, and Perception modifiers; this bonus is limited to half your class level, rounded down.

During your turn, you can take an action to generate aim. You can generate aim as a swift, move, standard, or full action, but can only do so once on each of your turns; the amount of aim you can generate is dependent upon your archer level and the action you spend to generate it. In addition, if you have designated a quarry (see the precision ability, below), you gain a bonus to this amount equal to the half of the highest of your Dexterity, Wisdom, and Perception modifiers (rounded down); this bonus is limited to half your class level, rounded down.

In addition, if you have designated a quarry, at the beginning of your turn, if that creature has not moved since your last turn, you gain additional aim. This additional aim is unaffected by strain (see below).

Your current amount of aim cannot exceed your max. After a short rest or long rest, your aim is reset to 0. If you have designated a quarry and lose sight of that creature, if that creature dies, or if you designate a new quarry, you automatically lose all of your aim.

In addition, the act of such intense aiming with a weapon is stressful and straining on the eyes. At the beginning of your turn, if you have any aim, you gain 1 point of strain. For every point of strain you have, you suffer a -1 penalty to all aim rolls (to a minimum of 0); if you have more strain than your Constitution modifier, you also suffer your total amount of strain as a penalty to all ranged attack rolls and lose that amount of aim at the end of each of your turns. If at any time you have no aim, you immediately lose all accrued strain.

At the end of your turn, you can willingly lose all your remaining aim as a non-action.

To use a maneuver, you must expend some amount of aim. If you have designated a quarry, maneuvers that target a creature must at least target your quarry, and maneuvers that target an area must include your quarry in the area.

The archer begins with four known maneuvers. She gains knowledge of additional maneuvers each level, as per the class table, above. At fourth level and every four levels after, she can trade out up to two maneuvers for new maneuvers from any school she can access, of any grade she can access.

If you would gain access to a school, you can choose to instead gain a bonus feat, which must be a feat for which you qualify. If you would gain access to a school and already have access to three schools, you gain a bonus feat instead.

The archer's key ability for her physical attacks is dependent upon the weapon she wields; when using a maneuver, if her primary ability score for the maneuver's school is greater than the ability score she would use for her weapon, she can use that instead.

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