I remember finishing ToEE back in the day (one of the bad endings iirc!) and was planning on doing a second run. Sadly life got in the way and I never got around to do it.

My original plan was to have a party full of Rangers, and then let the rest of the critical roles be taken by the recruitable characters.

Thing is, I don't remember exactly what I wanted to build! I'm reasonably sure most of them were multiclass rangers, taking ranger levels for dual wield / archery mastery / animal companion / whatever

So... anyone got some decent Ranger ideas that I can use on my Co8 run?

Been a while, but my recollection is that projectile weapons are dreadfully nerfed. Certainly so for the enemies (lol you can almost just ignore most of the archer types their attacks being so puny), for you party... think it was about same-ish. IIRC you have to put a ton of feats on a char to make him a viable archer.

I'd pass.