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How situational was the Ranger's Favored Enemy intended to be?
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<blockquote data-quote="StreamOfTheSky" data-source="post: 5742378" data-attributes="member: 35909"><p>It does vary a lot, and I never much liked Favored Enemy because of that. When I play Rangers I always try to ask the DM what the common enemy types will be in his campaign...doesn't hurt to ask, or at least it shouldn't. Sometimes he helps me out and makes suggestions. Sometimes he says he honestly has no idea at the moment and sometimes he plans to use a good spread of each kind. Then there's DM's who actually take affront to you asking and plainly say it's none of your business to know. That sort of response is a good warning sign to NOT play a ranger in that dude's game, and possibly a warning flag that he's an extremely heavy handed control freak as a DM in general.</p><p></p><p>The frequency obviously improves as you gain more favored enemies. Assuming you picked ones at least somewhat prevalent in the campaign world (with some allowances for giving weight to threat level, of course; if stuff is numerous but only comes in different varieties of dumb land-restricted melee brute w/o ability to gain class levels it really won't be that useful a pick even if you fight a lot of it, for example), I'd say a 1st level ranger should ideally be encountering his favored enemy 5-10% of the time, closer to 10%. Each favored enemy after that should probably add about 5% so that a 20th level ranger is fighting a favored enemy 25-30% of the time, closer to 30% than 25.</p><p>I have no idea what the intent is, though, that's just me estimating.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="StreamOfTheSky, post: 5742378, member: 35909"] It does vary a lot, and I never much liked Favored Enemy because of that. When I play Rangers I always try to ask the DM what the common enemy types will be in his campaign...doesn't hurt to ask, or at least it shouldn't. Sometimes he helps me out and makes suggestions. Sometimes he says he honestly has no idea at the moment and sometimes he plans to use a good spread of each kind. Then there's DM's who actually take affront to you asking and plainly say it's none of your business to know. That sort of response is a good warning sign to NOT play a ranger in that dude's game, and possibly a warning flag that he's an extremely heavy handed control freak as a DM in general. The frequency obviously improves as you gain more favored enemies. Assuming you picked ones at least somewhat prevalent in the campaign world (with some allowances for giving weight to threat level, of course; if stuff is numerous but only comes in different varieties of dumb land-restricted melee brute w/o ability to gain class levels it really won't be that useful a pick even if you fight a lot of it, for example), I'd say a 1st level ranger should ideally be encountering his favored enemy 5-10% of the time, closer to 10%. Each favored enemy after that should probably add about 5% so that a 20th level ranger is fighting a favored enemy 25-30% of the time, closer to 30% than 25. I have no idea what the intent is, though, that's just me estimating. [/QUOTE]
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