Interesting to hear how everyone's groups are.
Hood is a lonely expert. His group has one martial, one sorcerer priest, and the rest are psions.
Here's how I view Arcanis character design in a nutshell; you can either pick one area to focus on and be extremely good in just that one area, or pick two areas of focus as still be pretty good, or at most, three areas, and you will probably be at least competent. If you try to do any more than that, you just won't be able to consolidate enough skill ranks and complementary talents to have a major impact on gameplay.
So if you do the melee/ranged combo, that's pretty much going to be the main definition of your character. If that's that character you want to play then that's cool. Personally, this doesn't really appeal to me, because that character will be pretty pigeon-holed as a combat specialist, and I like characters that can contribute to investigation/research/conversations/etc and other "soft" skills.
For example, Hood's primary contribution to combat is high base damage and murderous precision. But his soft skills include larceny, streetwise, stealth, etc. So I pretty much run the information gathering aspects of the modules for my table, and that gives me a lot of opportunity to roleplay.
_________________ Arminius "Hood" Lucci - Former Thief, Assassin, Tier 2.4 "I get my freak on for recon."
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