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<blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 7027283" data-attributes="member: 1465"><p>Well I don't know anything official, but between UA articles and Twitter comments, my feeling is that this is the current situation:</p><p></p><p>- the latest UA revised Ranger IS the consolidation of all ideas, barring some minor adjustments (which they have probably decided already, based on playtesting and UA feedback survey), and will be published in Fall 2017 expansion book</p><p></p><p>- both the PHB and the expansion book versions will be official and AL-valid</p><p></p><p>- the two versions are largely compatible in terms of archetypes, which can be used with both (the only adjustment needed by a DM is about Extra Attack, but it is a very easy one)</p><p></p><p>- the spell-less Ranger remains officially unsupported and not AL-valid, but may be included in the expansion book as a class customization example if they decide to include those guidelines; the reason for not officially support this, is that it is different enough from both PHB Ranger and the UA Ranger, that it requires a playtesting effort about as big as by a completely new class, as well as it would then require design effort to provide its own archetypes... I think WotC designers feel like it's more effective to invest such efforts in wholly new classes (Mystic and Artificer) rather than a variant of an existing class</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Li Shenron, post: 7027283, member: 1465"] Well I don't know anything official, but between UA articles and Twitter comments, my feeling is that this is the current situation: - the latest UA revised Ranger IS the consolidation of all ideas, barring some minor adjustments (which they have probably decided already, based on playtesting and UA feedback survey), and will be published in Fall 2017 expansion book - both the PHB and the expansion book versions will be official and AL-valid - the two versions are largely compatible in terms of archetypes, which can be used with both (the only adjustment needed by a DM is about Extra Attack, but it is a very easy one) - the spell-less Ranger remains officially unsupported and not AL-valid, but may be included in the expansion book as a class customization example if they decide to include those guidelines; the reason for not officially support this, is that it is different enough from both PHB Ranger and the UA Ranger, that it requires a playtesting effort about as big as by a completely new class, as well as it would then require design effort to provide its own archetypes... I think WotC designers feel like it's more effective to invest such efforts in wholly new classes (Mystic and Artificer) rather than a variant of an existing class [/QUOTE]
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