Seeking a spell-less ranger

[brun]

So, for my next campaign, I'd want a non-spellcasting ranger (not that I have anything against the current version of the ranger class, it'd just fit my campaign).

Anyone has seen such a class printed in a product?
If not, how would you modify the class?
I was thinking about giving them some of the druids abilities, like trackless step (since there won't be any druids)...

 

[Crothian]

There's the woodsman in Wheel of Time, there are some in Mercanaries by AEG, and some other variants in Path of the Sword by FFG.

 

[brun]

Thanks
What are they like?
Or wath is the rest of the books like (I have a limited budget, so I'd like the better investment...)

 

[Crothian]

Wheel of Time I'd only recommend if you want to play in that setting.

Mercanaries has a lot of combat oriented feats, prestige classes and other things of that nature. It also has a lot of info on hirer and using mercanaries in one's game. It has a lot of information in it.

Path of the Sword is a class book for Barbarians, Monks, Fightersm, and Rangers. It covers a lot of area and has some alternate rules like fighting styles and ways to do acrobatic attack and horseman manuvers along with prestige classes, feats, a few alternate core classes, and Legendary Classes (prestige classes for higher level, 12+, characters).

I'd also suggest looking at the reviews of these books to get a more thorough idea of what is in them.

 

[jmucchiello]

Can you wait until the end of January? (One of the links in my sig indicates the book with the spell-less ranger.)

 

[Zhure]

I like the OA ranger. Same class, except everytime they would've gotten a new spell level, they get a bonus fighter feat instead.

It seem the simplest change to implement.

Personally, I don't understand the whole brouhaha about rangers anyway. If you want a 1e ranger, you make a Druid/Fighter/Wizard. If you want a 2e ranger, you use a 3e ranger. If you want a magic-free ranger, you make a Fighter/Rogue or a Barbarian/Rogue, or some combination of same.

Greg

 

[CCamfield]

Mercanaries has a lot of combat oriented feats, prestige classes and other things of that nature. It also has a lot of info on hirer and using mercanaries in one's game. It has a lot of information in it.

Yup, lots of varied stuff.

As far as replacement rangers goes, Mercenaries has the following core classes:

Guerilla: sees nature as an environment to use and fight in, not protect. Get tracking, a few bonus feats, a weak sneak attack (starts at 2d4 at level 4, and increases to 5d4), bonuses to setting traps, laying ambushes, and survival. One favored enemy at first level.

Hunter: Gets "specialized enemies" (crit mult +1, subdual damage at no penalty, +1 dodge AC), stunning blows, surprise attacks (to 6d8, not usable in flanking)

Mercenary Ranger: A construct-o-ranger class. Primarily get a lot of options to choose from, one of which is spells but you could disallow that. Other options are increased movement speed, favored enemies, bonus feats, favored terrain, etc.

Scout: gets "sniper shot" (only usable with ranged weapons) to 10d6 damage, and some sighting and sneaking bonuses (like moving silently at full speed)

 

[nHammer]

Take a look at this one.....

http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=33828

 

[Gargoyle]

So, for my next campaign, I'd want a non-spellcasting ranger (not that I have anything against the current version of the ranger class, it'd just fit my campaign).

Anyone has seen such a class printed in a product?
If not, how would you modify the class?
I was thinking about giving them some of the druids abilities, like trackless step (since there won't be any druids)...

I wrote the Master Huntsman prestige class just for this.

http://www.chainmailbikini.com/freestuff.html
http://www.chainmailbikini.com/files/masterhuntsman-v2.pdf