.: Help for ranged-combat skill

The ranged-combat skill governs your proficiency
with ranged weapons — bows, crossbows, pistols, and slings.
Higher ranks improve your hit chance and damage at range.

━━━ Aimed Shots ━━━

Ranged weapons fire with the shoot command. Every shot
is a deliberate aimed action: accuracy and damage both scale
with Perception, not Strength. A keen eye matters
more than raw muscle.

Each weapon must be loaded before it fires. Use
reload to ready it after each shot. Ammunition comes in
bundles — arrows, bolts, or shot — carried in your pack.

━━━ Range ━━━

  - Same room: shoot 
  - Adjacent room: shoot  
      Cross-room fire does not pull you into melee. The target
      must close the distance to engage in melee combat.

━━━ Progression ━━━

This skill improves through use:
  - Landing shots with a ranged weapon
  - Perception advances from aimed-shot attacks

See also: help shoot, help reload,
  help skills