Paul Farquhar
Legend
A team pet doesn't scratch the itch of it being "my pet". I think a lot of the flavour @Ruin Explorer is talking about is coming from anime. A big influence on many players new to D&D, and for which cute pets are a major trope. Most obviously, Pokémon.Anyway, what about my prior suggestion of beast companions being a sidekick class instead of requiring so much design space onto the Ranger?
I would fold the tracker, nature guy, and archer archetypes into fighters and rogues, and use the bare bones of the 5e ranger to make a JRPG magic warrior (probably with cute pet) class.
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