evileeyore
Mrrrph
My compliant is "Rangers get all these cool benies without needing the Proficiency".I'm afraid you've lost me completely. Are you complaining that the ranger doesn't need skill or that he does?
Which one is that again? The with the attribute bonus or the one with the class perk?It makes sense to me that between two unskilled characters the one with the greater natural aptitude is superior.
Unless they are Tracking a simple set of tracks. At which point Bob so outclasses Sally it's fundimentally insane. But the moment those tracks cross a stream... Bob is lost (unless he's a 5th level Ranger, then he can't get lost in the wilderness, no matter how bad his Survival penalties are).Again, I don't view classes as existing so I don't care if it says ranger on the character sheet. If Bob's character is a Ranger with no outdoors skills, and Sally is playing a fighter with survival and Nature, I'm listening to Sally's character. She's got the chops.
The above sentence is predicated on last playtest info and me kvetching to kvetch.
Yeah, in the last Alpha he had a magical Auto-Track Simple Things No Skill Need Apply ability.I wasn't in the late playtest so my only source for the current Ranger is the leaked alpha.
Conversely I haven't seen the leaked Alpha, I do recall an earlier playtest with Favored Terrain, so I see where you're coming from.