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it's not more realistic if complications happen less when competent people are performing the task, the world doesn't care who is performing the task or how skilled they are, be it the three stooges or james bond, if the cook is going to be on the other side of the door then the cook is going to...

it's very simple it's different from a wandering monster roll whether they are here or there because with a wandering monster roll it is not determined where they are by someone else's skill at picking a lock.

your assertions that they are 'equally quantum' are untrue when for one roll the chances of the location of the cook has modifiers derived from the skill of the person performing the check. it matters that it is an independent roll.

it's not inconsistent, the wandering monster is not being determined by the same roll that the players are using for a check, it is determined by A roll, a neutral independent roll, but not THE (skill) roll, unlike the cook. it's really not that complicated a distinction.

agreed, being a skillmonkey or the like really isn't a viable standalone class concept in 5e

of course they are completely able to judge when the right time for them to enter should be, however this still gives them absolutely zero influence over when anyone else, especially their opponents, will enter the situation. however the skill isn't burglary, it's lockpicking(or specifically to...

nah, it was healing elixir i was thinking of, i looked it up afterwards

okay but this is part of the core problem you're missing, yes, the dice roll to unlock the door is something that should be influenced by the character's ability rating, however that same dice roll influenced by their stats/skills is also being used to determine their luck in the situation which...

the problem was never with when the decision was being made, the problem was always with the state of the world changing between the functionally unrelated roll succeeding or failing. is there a cook behind the door? we can't know until we make this causally unrelated lockpicking check!

What’s that one spell that lets you create a potion using a spell slot? Healing elixir? That seems appropriate

looking at the list of basic familiars in 5.14 i feel most of them do fit the ranger being ordinary animals bat, cat, crab, frog(toad), hawk, lizard, octopus, owl, poisonous snake, fish(quipper), rat, raven, sea horse, spider and weasel. the only ones i'd say don't feel like they fit there are...

blur would be a very good defensive option to give them, especially once the 'concentration can't be broken from damage' kicks in

find steed/greater steed perhaps? you couldn't cast it in battle but i think it's apt. it's also a crime ranger doesn't get find familiar.

Hear, Hear!

i mean it's just as easy to ask 'what's a wizard at this point but a sorcerer without a bloodline or metamagic in exchange for a spellbook.' the sorcerer 'magical bloodline' narrative also encompasses the 'spark of magic' aspect of the wizard much better than the reverse, so if you made a...

i was referring to things that could be implemented in the baseclass rather than as part of a list of optional talents

the specifics can't be agreed upon but there's still some solid broad strokes there that are agreed upon: nature based, martial inclined, higher skill individual, having a specialist area of knowledge be that in a type of creature or environment.

while i do think it's a good idea for the ranger to be built with an invocations/infusions equivalent to compensate for the conceptual multidirectionalism i do think you've gone way too hard going all in into the 'build your own' aspect of it and as Minigiant mentioned feat chains, that outline...

it's actually like saying if you miss your attack and fail to kill them then the enemy is still going to be an obstacle on your next turn.

yes, i suppose you could just ignore the history of the term and take it on pure face value.