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Probably more Arcane Trickster, for my tastes. But basically yeah. That said, I think one of the more interesting ideas that I'd seen in this thread was a reflavored World Tree Barbarian. I think if you turn all the Hunters Mark stuff into a Rage-adjacent suite of abilities, but keep the...

I think most of the class features would indicate otherwise. Certainly they did with the 2014 Ranger. What do Natural Explorer, Favored Enemy, or Hide in Plain Sight have to do with spellcasting.. Anything at all? I'm struggling to think that any features at all that keyed off of spellcasting in...

Bunch of traversal stuff, climbing swimming and the like. Bunch of survival stuff, shrugging off exhaustion, multiattack uncanny dodge, etc. Some attack utility from weapon masteries. All that.. but if you want to deal some extra damage on your weapon strikes, better start mumbling and...

Yes, this exactly. For me, the Ranger should be a hunter first, and a spellcaster second. The planned relationship between the 2024 Ranger and Hunter's Mark seems to have those priorities reversed (at least with respect to weapon damage) in a way that I don't really see a reason for. Like look...

Maybe you could. My question would, once again, be, "why is this necessary". How does the ability to trigger little explosions of force serve or reinforce the class fantasy of the grizzled warrior of the woods? I can draw a pretty straight line from experience in hunting creatures to knowing...

Fighter's do do more damage because it is their profession. What do you think their scaling on Extra Attack is intended to represent? Otherwise.. yeah, we're talking about an opinion I have. I've given the reasons I have for it. The "others who like it" are giving theirs. This is how...

My complaint is that both the damage (e.g. aiming for the weak spots) and the tracking (e.g. tracking) are things that you could expect a hunter to do normally because hunting is their profession. Hunter's Mark unnecessarily ties those things to spellcasting in the form of a spell with no...

Sigh... So..I say I'm good with magic stuff outside of Hunters Mark.. repeatedly.. And you defend Hunter's Mark. BC exotic creatures require exotic solutions..or something..with no more justification than that. And when I mention that you haven't made the case for the exotic solution we've...

Ennh.. sorta.. I'd be more inclined to agree if you couldn't cast "Enhance Ability" on others. If you could only cast it on yourself, then, yes, I would question its need to be a spell too

I'm not sure if you're just taking the piss here, or do you genuinely believe that when I say "normal hunting activities" in the context of D&D, that I am only referring to creatures hunted on earth? Do you truly believe I am concerned about how the game presents the ability to hunt deer?? In...

So we agree about Hunters Mark. Great. Incidentally, I never suggested that it should be yeeted from the class. It would IMO, work far better as a class feature. My general feeling is that magic should be easily identifiable by its effects as "magical". Hunter's mark isn't. So you get two...

Ennnh. I dunno. I think most people could figure out: 1. Find food 2. Find water 3. Find shelter 4. Find the thing you're hunting 5. Don't get killed by the thing you're hunting. 6. Kill the thing you're hunting Like, yeah, the specifics for how those challenges might be resolved, and the...

I think, in this case, "hunting skills" is being confused with the mechanical skills in D&D. And I don't really think you need a lot of outdoorsman skills to grok hunters' abilities to find and kill stuff as a normal hunter skillset. While the more general point is that 5e admits few areas...

Trade "magically enhance" from your post and replace it with "focus" And you lose nothing. That's the point. The "magic" isn't carrying any weight. I'm good with all sorts of other magic stuff the ranger can do. But Hunter's mark, specifically, is dumb magic.

The counterpoint of this is that knowing and aiming for weaknesses and being good at tracking are things actual hunters do. We could have, "Because I am good at hunting, I can track do more damage to the things that I hunt" Instead we have.."I'm good at hunting..as long as I have enough...

I don't mind the Ranger having spells. I mind Hunter's Mark being one of them. Like, what is the effect we're causing that is so otherworldly as to require the direct alteration of reality? We're doing a little more damage and we have an easier time tracking the target. We need magic words for...

Yeah, I soured pretty hard on it after watching the ending. Then I decided to just not remember that the ending exists and enough time has passed that the plan actually worked. Now, when I catch a random clip from TikTok or whatever, I can appreciate how good the ride was without recalling the...

I've done this exercise with How I Met your Mother. Excise the ending and its pretty great.

Hmm..here's hoping that at some point either in the past or future, there exists a convergence where that movie airs on Nick-at-Nite.

Cowboy Bebop. Bang.