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As much as I hate being in the sun for any longer than absolutely necessary….California really is a beautiful place to live. I’ve never seen anything anywhere that made me want to leave. And it’s nice living in a state with the economy of a major nation, and multiple of the world’s great...

Yeah I imagine this was part of why they left wotc, tbh. I doubt the folks at wotc were unaware of it.

Good for you. There are people with the necessary skills at the desirable level within every demographic, new and old. Hiring the same four guys that wrote 3e or whatever instead of promoting brilliant people already on the team is lazy and stifling. So please don’t use my post to wave your...

Huh. That is honestly pretty discouraging in terms of caring about D&D going forward. Especially since they are hiring externally for leadership of the D&D team instead of promoting. If they hire old dudes that have already put their stamp on D&D to lead the team, and/or lay off the few...

If my wife ends up still unhappy with her rangers after using 2024 for a couple levels, we might look at that Ranger or build one ourselves. Even then it felt wrong until we got primal utility powers for the class. Weird word choice then. Tools. The Ranger using tools doesn’t interfere with...

And people forget that Jeremy has written indie RPGs in the past. At least one (Blue Rose) but I think there others he worked on? Either way, I doubt they are married to traditional gaming, so I think we can expect to be surprised by what they do now.

Kinda like how the warlock can be a melee frontline, back line blaster, controller/trickster, utility and support, pet caster, or an unholy combination of those things.

Pure martial is a silly bugbear with no relevance to archetype and tropes, it’s just “I don’t like how ubiquitous spells are” turned toward a class that almost objectively must be supernatural and mystical, which in 5e means spells. ETA: that is a totally valid complaint about 5e. Just not...

Just jumping back in time to this. Robin Hood has never been a ranger. I would never have remotely thought to build Robin Hood as a ranger in D&D. I wouldn’t even use Scout Rogue, I’d use Thief. Maybe Mc Battlemaster Fighter. But Ranger? Completely different concept.

Okay? So what? What has that got to do with designing a ranger?

Nope. We just aren’t ever going to agree on this. Eh, not a thing I care about. If you’re playing in middle earth it does. He’s using a magical herb to heal someone through magical herb craft, my dude.

No. Magic is not a replacement for science in any setting but Eberron, and even there Druidic Magic isn’t viewed as scientific like arcane magic is. They are different, in the world. The Jedi moves stuff with their mind, leaps and runs super fast, chokes someone out, whatever. Same actions. It...

Support this argument, please? I have no idea where you are getting this. Also, shamans have apprentices. That doesn’t mean they are doing science. Only arcane magic is intellectual, and even then mostly wizardry. You’re inventing problems. Translating from one thing to another doesn’t mean...

The Rangers and Marshals of the Old West were more like D&D Rangers thans Davey Crockett. Crockett is a woodsman, not at all involved in protecting anything. That’s a fighter or rogue with survival and nature skills.

I disagree. Elf magic is intuitive, not intellectual. The distinction between magic as magic and magic as science is important. Agreed. More text than I would use, but we aren’t worlds apart. No moreso than traps.

I like that a lot. I wonder if you could give the Ranger a gnarly “paint the target” spell that could scale well. Like shining smite but bonus damage on every attack against the target, or something. Or just give them shining smite and let them use it with melee or ranged attacks. And tbh...

Sigh…same

@Minigiant Lets pivot to a more fruitful discussion wrt The Ranger. Role in the party, and adversarial challenges that speak to that role. So, one way to get what you want and what I want, is to keep the skill descriptions fairly simple, fairly easy to remember, etc, light on rules strong on...

So, the Ranger’s tropes are magical. Glad we agree on that at least. Anyway, slightly more descriptive text in the rules for skills, more reasonable consumable crafting times and costs (not just a ranger issue), little things like that, would help, and making the NE terrain benefits still...

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