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Agreed. Pure Martial Ranger only made sense in 4e where the entire system was redesigned around that. Tech meaning tool use. Poisons, herbs, traps, lures, smoke bombs. Basically the items many ranger spells are supposed to represent. Martial/spell and martial with a dab of spell have...

That's wishful thinking There's NO WAY you balance a class in 5-6 directions while still being satisfying

Because the Ranger class cannot be everything and work 5 different ways A pure martial A martial/spell A martial/tech A martial with a dab of spell A martial with a dab of tech A pure beastmaster A martial/beast A spell/beast

And the point. There are people who want to play a Middle Earth Ranger with Middle Earth Ranger magic in Forgotten Realms and D&D rules with no alterations. When it comes to classes, many people aren't reasonable.

Cart before horse. Rangers don't develop Botany or Zoology because Druidic magic exists and they can learn it. Grognards wouldn't let Rangers actually learn science. Agreed. Point is many people want Supernatural stuff from one media to work the same in D&D. "Jedis don't have spell slots...

All Elves have the option to cast spells with INT. I think you are getting stuck in semantics. D&D Ranger magic is the replacement for RL Ranger science because Magic advanced first. The point is the what exists in other worlds and how it exists doesn't necessarily exist in D&D or an edition...

The problem with half casters is... And I know I harp on this ...they need custom spells. WOTC and a lot of the community refuses to make spells for paladin ranger and Artificer.... But wizards ..

Nah. Warrior classes should be able to run on 10 Con. Warrior classes should have bonus HP or get bonus HP from STR and CON. If the fanbase is willing to heavily restrict multi-classing, sure. I would have loved to unify subclass levels. 1st, 3rd, 7th, 13th, 15th, 18th

Because people want to emulate other lower fantasy character tropes not realizing that those characters would be half casters in the High Fantasy High Magic D&D.

D&D elf magic is intellectual. It's magical science. Even the wood and dark elves. Elves teach each other magic, parent to child, master to apprentice. That's one of the core issues with D&D fans and D&D the game. When you pull characters from other games into D&D, their methods have to change...

That's how my conversion of Stalking Brand works. You put an ugly glowing brand on the target. The brand is visible even even invisible or transformed. And anyone who hits the target has an expanded 18-20 crit range and the crit deals 1d6 per spell level extra radiant damage. And the brand is...

Spontaneous Metamagic fits D&D Sorcerers the most. Changing spells on the fly via your innate connection in the 6 seconds of each round is very sorcerer. While deep connection to a bloodline is also sorcerer, it could be its own class. Having all dragon powers or undead powers or angel...

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I agree Currently Survival skills is this: Follow tracks, forage, find a trail, or avoid natural hazards. or The DM might ask you to make a Wisdom (Survival) check to follow tracks, hunt wild game, guide your group through frozen wastelands, identify signs that owlbears live nearby, predict...

Few people are okay with Hunter's Mark being a central aspect of the Ranger. Hunter's Mark is just likely the only Rangery thing that has an approval rating over I would guess 80% amongst the community that people would allow being part of the base ranger and not a subclass feature. Level 1...

Absolutely yes. Many of The Ranger fantasy tropes are Curing Wounds Using herbs to restore allies Calming Animals Tracking foes Enduring the elements Locating objects Finding and creating shelter Moving groups stealthily Moving through difficult terrain and natural obstacles Fighting wild...

No no no Ranger Magic is D&D's Nature science. Animal friendship is doing double duty of being the druids magic and the Rangers science because wizards of the colts did not want to write two different rules for a similar effect

You only need as many words blurbs as Ranger tropes you want to create. You can identify plants, beasts, rocks, and other naturally occuring creatures with a Nature (INT) roll. That's a rule and it's short. There No need for technical or real-world knowledge if you contain the rules for...

Exactly Ranger magic is the Zoology, Botany, Geography, Geology, and Environmental Science of D&D.

When then you can never create the Ranger fantasy Because the Ranger fantasy or doing Rangery trope requires actual written down rules. If you handwaved it not only would you not be able to have meaningful gameplay of those Rangery tropes, you also create a situation where other classes will be...