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I’m not sure that is actually in evidence. We know that this crossover was deemed to be appropriate for a digital only release. That tells us nothing about any other prospective mtg crossover.

Or Calipso or a siren.

Maybe a majority but not by much. Few episodes lacked levity.

I mean eventually “yes we should” is going to turn into “so how do we do it right?”

I’ve thought about it from a different angle, more like the 2014 hunter turned up to 11. But, if we go by official creature types, it’s tough because few of them have unifying mechanics, but…here’s a try with no attempt to balance Beasts - Ability to communicate with beasts and predict their...

Sounds like something 4e woulda done

Official settings, Eberron. Magitech. I wish some of the magitech wasn’t so locked to specific organizations, like airships, but it’s fine I can just use that and an inventive PC or NPC ally to create conflict.

Lol fair, but I stand by it. Any ranger that isn’t just a scout will have some features that can reasonably be fueled by spell slots. The only other way to go is to base the ranger on Discipline rather than spell slots and give some sort of discipline features that you can lean into instead of...

Hopefully Disney+ tanks so hard it dies as a platform. ETA: not even because of anything political.

Aragorn is definitely doing magic in LoTR. LoTR has very subtle magic. Very rarely is it flashy or anything like the D&D idea of spellcasting.

I don’t understand how anyone could say that wilderness expert being magical is odd, or not based on a strong association.

The mostly martial “ranger” is a scout. Not a bad point. How it could work is to replace favored enemy with Hunter’s Bane, and you choose an effect or two at the end of a long rest (more active at a time as you level, analogous to artificer infusions), and each has benefits against a type of...

Very reasonable. My solution would have been to give the Ranger two FE options at level 1, and make the benefits more general for each one, like a benefit when fighting flying creatures or spellcasting creatures or large+ creatures, or hordes, etc. Basically steal the Hunter’s deal and expand...

Yes, it can. Yes, it can. It already is. The only issue for the Ranger is that the current base class features aren’t good gameplay and don’t really execute on the class fantasy all that well, but fixing that doesn’t require being less good with weapons or losing Spellcasting, and very few...

They were also used by musketeers and dragoons, as the only sidearm for some non-officer cavalry, etc, so while it may mostly have been a status symbol, they were absolutely also a legitimate weapon of war. But to the point of the thread, a civilian's self defense weapon is a perfectly...