Recent content by Islayre d'Argolh

D&D 3.5e : Red Hand of Doom, Rise of the Runelords and Curse of the Crimson Throne. D&D 4e : Madness at Gardmore Abbey. D&D 5e : Lost mines of Phandelver, Curse of Stradh and Tomb of Annihilation. Night's Dark Terror, Sunless Citadel and Reavers of Harkenwold are on my to-read-list. Also, Wild...

The way i see it the Rogue (Scout) in Xanatar's is the official non-magical Ranger (and i agree it should have been in the PHB). But, let's face it, we have now a lot of ways to build a "non-magical ranger" in 5e : PHB only, i think a Rogue (Thief) with the proper Background (Folk Hero or...

All things you can do in 5e with a Rogue. ^^

It does make her a very good non-magical ranger. And that's enough.

Once more i repeat : in charge of 5.5, i'll immediately change Ranger into a Fighter archetype, i do not see the need for this hero concept to be a full class (i think of it as a "vestigial TSR class"). But if we keep the ranger as a full class, it need to do - from a gameplay POV - something...

From your own statement Katniss is a great ranger because she's very good on survival and stealth (and deadly with a bow, i assume). A Variant Human /Custom Lineage Dex Battlemaster can be expert in Survival and add a d8 to her (already good) Stealth checks. And be deadly with a bow. So a very...

You can, since Tasha's and the 3 skills maneuvers : battlemasters can be skill gods.

Put me in charge of 5.5 and Rangers & Paladins will be Fighter Archetypes in the minute. ;) My point about Katniss is : by using the Fighter or the Rogue classes the right way, we can now build very good non-magical "rangers". That's why the official Ranger class have to be this...

The only thing you explained, ad nauseam, is you're point of view, not the-hidden-but-complete-truth-about-rangers. You use katniss as the iconic ranger : fine by me. In 5e, Katniss can be described, close to the source material, as a Human Folk Hero Dex Fighter (Battlemaster) with the Archery...

Katniss took Prodigy/Skilled Expert (as a variant human) and the Ambush maneuver (as a Battlemaster). So d20+Wis+PBX2 on Survival Checks and d20+Dex+PB+d8 on Stealth Checks. Done.

Yeah... Something like the Scout archetype for the Rogue in Xanatar's... Or a Dex/Bow Fighter with the Outlander Bakground and Expertise in Survival (Prodigy/Skill Expert)...

If the Basic Rules were for levels 1-11 PC only, they could be shorter. In fact, with the CR 17 Adult Red Dragon as the strongest monster in it, there's no point playing past level 12. We could also cut some monster stat-blocks to go even slimmer (do we really need a badger stat-Block to play...

It's not that obvious. From my point of view Eldritch Knights, Hexblades & Bladesingers are good-looking-and-functionnal "Sword & Magic" heroes : the concept is succesfully done in 5e.

Hi guys :) I'm the 5e "technical advisor" for this project by the team behind the Knock ! magazine (the Merry Mushmen) https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/896102915/a-folklore-bestiary/description With this Folklore Bestiary we try to propose a "Beasties Breviary" like no other with a lot of...

This is very clever. (y)