doctorbadwolf
Heretic of The Seventh Circle
i have gone a thousand different ways over the years, really since 4e launched, about the ranger. That’ll happen when your favorite class conceptually keeps getting done dirty.
One thing for 5e that I think the subclasses really don’t reliably cover is toolkit.
I think the ranger needs a more versatile resource pool, like a less specific point pool, and an expanded set of fighting styles, or a new design pillar in the class like artificer infusions or warlock pact boons.
Things like having an improved familiar that can fight, making traps and specialized poisons (dragons bane and the like) and hidden bivouac and whatever else, but also things like mounted archer that gives a mount and some mobility based shot-on-the-run type benefit that works on or off mount.
That, and more features need to be group-usable. The ranger should be a Jack of all trades that can help any group not totally blow it at survival and stealth.
One thing for 5e that I think the subclasses really don’t reliably cover is toolkit.
I think the ranger needs a more versatile resource pool, like a less specific point pool, and an expanded set of fighting styles, or a new design pillar in the class like artificer infusions or warlock pact boons.
Things like having an improved familiar that can fight, making traps and specialized poisons (dragons bane and the like) and hidden bivouac and whatever else, but also things like mounted archer that gives a mount and some mobility based shot-on-the-run type benefit that works on or off mount.
That, and more features need to be group-usable. The ranger should be a Jack of all trades that can help any group not totally blow it at survival and stealth.