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Variant Ranger:No Spells
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(Psi)SeveredHead
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Fast Movement (Ex): Maybe at 4th or 8th level (+10 ft.). Or mayybe +5 ft. at 4th-level and another +5 ft. at 12th-level.
Trailblazing (Ex): Reduce the movement penalties for travelling through thick brush and stuff with a Survival check (DC 15, +2 per additional person)... this can make Fast Tracking more useful. (Fast Track lets you track at full speed but this isn't too useful if your party has a cleric with a speed of 20 ft. because he's wearing that heavy armor.)
You might want to replace combat styles with something else, too - there's not much for spear-wielders, grimlocks or gnolls, for instance.
PS: the Complete Warrior of the "spell-less" ranger was a joke. It still came with spells, you just didn't need components for them. Even worse, they got rid of the few flavorful spells (like longstrider) and gave you a spell that lets you Track an opponent without a survival check - so why exactly did you max out Survival again?
Trailblazing (Ex): Reduce the movement penalties for travelling through thick brush and stuff with a Survival check (DC 15, +2 per additional person)... this can make Fast Tracking more useful. (Fast Track lets you track at full speed but this isn't too useful if your party has a cleric with a speed of 20 ft. because he's wearing that heavy armor.)
You might want to replace combat styles with something else, too - there's not much for spear-wielders, grimlocks or gnolls, for instance.
PS: the Complete Warrior of the "spell-less" ranger was a joke. It still came with spells, you just didn't need components for them. Even worse, they got rid of the few flavorful spells (like longstrider) and gave you a spell that lets you Track an opponent without a survival check - so why exactly did you max out Survival again?
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Caspian Moon Prince
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I've been working on a spell-less ranger for my campaign setting and have come up with two options.
1. Using the Wildlander from Midnight. It is very nice and has a few special abilities, but no spells.
2. Tweaking the variant ranger Monte Cook made available on his site. I'd take away the spells and up the hit dice to d10 and maybe a few weak rangery abilities.
I still haven't decided which I'll use, but I've always disliked the spell abilities of the ranger.
1. Using the Wildlander from Midnight. It is very nice and has a few special abilities, but no spells.
2. Tweaking the variant ranger Monte Cook made available on his site. I'd take away the spells and up the hit dice to d10 and maybe a few weak rangery abilities.
I still haven't decided which I'll use, but I've always disliked the spell abilities of the ranger.
The varient Ranger for Swashbuckling Adventures allows a ranger to search for Herbs (with a Survival or Profession (Healer) check) that he/she can use to heal small ammounts of damage at Level 3. The Ranger chooses how much damage he wants to heal (x d6's) and rolls a survival check (DC 5 * x) to see if they can find them. (Gained at 3rd or 4th Level)
At 9th level they can search for poisions DC = cost of poision / 10
At 18th level they get poison use.
At 9th level they can search for poisions DC = cost of poision / 10
At 18th level they get poison use.
Plane Sailing
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I think that trading out the spells for two out of the following three barbarian abilities would be sound.
a) fast movement
b) uncanny dodge
c) damage resistance.
Probably (a) and (c).
a) fast movement
b) uncanny dodge
c) damage resistance.
Probably (a) and (c).
SALADIN THE JUST
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Grazzt said:
Like all gathered here, I have disliked the spell-use ability for the Ranger and for the Paladin. Perhaps it will be real useful if those who have managed to craft something to provide those interested with a copy of their work of art. What say you? In the mean time if anyone has access to a spell-less ranger or paladin class, i would be most grateful if you could direct me to the website or provide me with a copy of the class. Thank u!!
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