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RE: 5E Birthright Blooded scion as a race sounds interesting, but how would you handle things like blood theft? 5E races tend to give abilities that are important in low levels but less so in later ones. 2E Blooded Scions had the whole Blood Score which fed into how many blood abilities and how...

The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 and the Clayton Act of 1914 are the relevant legislation of US antitrust laws. Despite that, the interpretation of those laws changed in the 1970s thanks to Robert Bork's book, Antitrust Paradox. Thus "causing a shift in the U.S. Supreme Court's approach to...

Even if ambuscade isn't overpowered (which I think it is) it can make combat too swingy when paired with rogue/assassin or fighter. It needs to be later not at first level to prevent cherry picking. Consider the barbarian has an ability around 6 or 7 to get advantage on initiative and the...

The exclusivity of the ranger stuff in early editions was maintained in 3.x thanks to feat taxes. While any melee class could be a nature warrior in 3E, in practice only Rangers were the nature warriors. Feat taxes sucked so I'm glad 5E got rid of them. I also like backgrounds but the...

For the next D&D Encounters session I'd like to play a Cleric with the Trickery Domain and preferably a bit of a swashbuckler if possible. He'll be Human (variant) and have the Charlatan background (Deception, Sleight of Hand, Disguise Kit, and forgery kit) that sells fake relics of all FR...

At least two or three Ranger spells per level are bonus actions that enhance the Ranger's attacks. It's entirely possible for Ranger to only use those spells. Thus the Ranger does not cast spells in the narrative sense while still casting spells in the gamist sense. Also Aragorn used Kingsfoil...

IME running LG game days, I introduced new players looking to create their first PCs. For most of them, they had trouble coming up with a character concept. It's wasn't so much looking for an "I Win" button as it was simply using the characters that inspired the player in the fantasy genre as...

I agree. That's why I made the tail wagging the dog comment. Drizzt is an important consideration for WotC IMO. Many (not all or even most) players will make a Drizzt clone as their first PC. Being able to make a Drizzt or Aragon clone using the Ranger class is probably a requirement of any...

I consider the rogue a glass cannon. I was a basing my comment around my experience as a monk player who has far too low an AC despite being a melee fighter. Thinking about it more, I would expect most Rangers to go for Breastplate which should be sufficient.

Historically the ranger has had more than favored enemy. Things like track and TWF and archer archetype can now be done in other classes. Favored enemy is the only thing that makes the ranger unique.

The problem with 4E Ranger was that the archer build was incredibly boring and the melee build couldn't survive in melee. I think the 5E melee ranger has the same survivability problem due to needing light armor for stealth but not doing enough damage to qualify as a glass cannon. Maybe the...

If ranger is to be its own class, I would rather like to see a warlord type subclass instead of the hunter subclass. There should be a Hunter background not subclass IMO.

Drizzt's favored enemy is goblins. It was mentioned in one of the early books and then Salvatore wrote a short story where Drizzt met a goblin that was nice and it humanized (elfized?) the goblin. That doesn't invalidate your larger point since Salvatore plays D&D and its a bit of the tail...

Sorry Steeldragons but I think you got trolled hard. The whole favored enemy is racist tangent was ... unhelpful. Getting back to the topic at hand. I view favored enemy/terrain as situational bonuses. How situational? I would say about as often as a cleric's turn undead. Notice that turn...

Favored enemy is the ranger's exclusive thing. Without it, there's not enough to justify a separate class with multiple subclasses. The argument over whether it is a good design element or not is moot IMO. The fact that this thread exists makes me think the ranger shouldn't be a class and the...

A background alone doesn't get you Ranger. However, there just doesn't seem enough crunch there to make Ranger a full class. Take Eldritch Knight as a model and make a Ranger subclass of Fighter. Instead of Intelligence use Wisdom; instead of wizards spells (abjuration/evocation) use the...

My favorite AD&D character was a ranger with the justicar kit. I love the idea of the ranger class. However, If I was remaking that character today I'd probably use paladin with oath of the ancients. A bunch of other classes beat up the ranger and took his stuff over the various editions. It may...

A ranger ability that ignores or can remove exhaustion levels would multi-class really well with a tempest barbarian. Not that that's a bad thing. IMO either let Ranger keep spells or just make the Ranger a subclass of fighter. You could even do both and have a nature version of Eldritch...

WotC probably isn't sharing everything they're working on. They can put out a splat book whenever they want based on the crew they have or free lancers they can hire. What they're waiting for is a mystery to me.

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