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Yes, it can. Yes, it can. It already is. The only issue for the Ranger is that the current base class features aren’t good gameplay and don’t really execute on the class fantasy all that well, but fixing that doesn’t require being less good with weapons or losing Spellcasting, and very few...

They were also used by musketeers and dragoons, as the only sidearm for some non-officer cavalry, etc, so while it may mostly have been a status symbol, they were absolutely also a legitimate weapon of war. But to the point of the thread, a civilian's self defense weapon is a perfectly...

Le gasp! Perfection.

Exactly! I hate 3/.5 and I still regard the 3.5 ranger as the best iteration thus far, except maybe the 5e Revised Ranger from UA. I haven’t seen any 3pp or homebrew Rangers that beat them either. But it had the same issue as 5e. Yeah I actually really liked it, and I wish they’d have...

No. You have continuously been wrong and then danced the goalpost around when shown that you’re wrong. You claimed that rapiers were not suitable for warfare. Demonstrably false. You claimed that they didn’t exist in the 15th century. Demonstrably false. You only go back to talking about...

That’s one part of one class. Subclass Spellcasting. Not class concepts. Each is one class feature. That’s a list of maneuvers and spells. The 4e Gnome was fantastic, and had a very solid identity. Yep.

I still don’t agree, but at least this is a bit more reasonable. But to me, the 5e Ranger and the 3.5 Ranger both had the concepts down and just needed better execution. People not liking that rangers have spells isn’t special. Most classes have stuff like that where part of the community...

I don’t chase goalposts.

No, I believe that your premise is false. I don’t agree that the Ranger is a set of several noticeably different concepts, much less concepts too different to be one class.

Yeah, I added a bunch of druid spells to the bard for a player. It’s a good tool though I wish it was more intuitive.

No. it’s not needed regardless. The only reason the Ranger struggles is that they’ve failed to actually execute on the concepts in the class, and instead genericised it, and it has some frustrating gameplay issues that have painfully clear solutions. They don’t need to be six classes in one...

Oof. I’m good. We don’t need to continue interacting. Have a good one. (They also had cavalry using rapiers, and the musketeers didn’t have bayonets because they were trained to use their rapiers in close quarters. So ya know, rapiers used in battle. 🤷‍♂️)

the way to do it is to create “Find Ranger’s Steed” by copying Find Steed and only changing the classes with access to add Ranger.

You could, sure. But it isn’t needed.

Not really. Why? And why not curate the spell list to include plenty of stuff that doesn’t involve waving hands and chanting, or if needed make it so weapons are arcane focus for them and they ignore verbal components. Robin Hood in D&D is a rogue, but if you insisted on making him a ranger...

If I were doing the tattoo monk 1. Do what the elemental monk should be. You pick a [stance but not] and it either makes you have dr and deal more damage unarmed, set things on fire when you hit and gain resist cold, freeze/slow on a hit and gain resist fire, gain an AC and speed bonus and...

Well they wasted the tattoos people would actually want on the actual magical tattoos, so they’re struggling to hit the mark without splitting that arrow.

That’s what subclasses are for. The PHB covers the main “almost every world” bases, and after that you want subclasses that lean into a theme, genre, or setting. But yeah, some players will hate a Ranger based on D&D wilderness….because that ranger uses magic! 😂

Yep, or imagine Jester from Critical Role as a Warlock. My wife has a warlock tied to Hyrsam, based heavily on the 4e Hyrsam lore, and it’s kinda like that.

Yeah I love 1 yard hex maps. I’m torn between it and 13th age or Daggerheart style ranges. Since my game uses dice pools I would only penalize melee with polearms with a -1d penalty, since you absolutely can short-grip the haft or use it like a quarter staff. But my game also assumes that no...