Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
The current C&C ranger is pretty beefy, and with the class-and-a-half rules, you can add spellcasting back to both classes. Without them, they're more Aragorn or Knights of the Round Table than classic 1E heroes.My only beef with C&C was that they mostly nerfed the paladins (and rangers too).
But I like that choice, since adding spellcasting back to them via the class-and-a-half rules allows more customization; when we convert our 3E game later this year, the ranger player may have her ranger cast clerical spells, rather than druidic, since her character has no connection to the druids of the region, but she worships a household goddess from her village instead.