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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.

i mean, 'that's what my character would do' is generally seen as a very distinct thing from playing the character true, the line of 'TWMCWD' is a stereotypical one used as a deflection and defence for just being a massive disruptive ass in play and 'justifying' it on their character's personality.

that's the thing though, the swordmage is not just a 'person who hits and magics', they're a person for whom hitting and casting is one and the same, none of the 5e classes properly do this, the combat and magic mechanics are so separate from each other in all of the attempts in 5e that you...

just because the 5e paladin vaguely lines up with aragorn's abilities doesn't mean that aragorn isn't also one of the characters who primarily shaped the archetype. and the fact aragorn barely has magic is basically meaningless given how low magic middle earth is, the two primary users of magic...

i admit i'll never really understand the people who say the ranger needs to be magicless, part of the fundamental archetype of the ranger to me is that of the survivalist, and that core survivalist mindset is never ignore/forget something that could be useful, in DnD magic is one hell of a...

as much as i hate HM, i'd be more conceptually interested in them having (in practice i'd still very likely never pick it though) a variation that triggers the bonus damage to the target whenever they're hit by anyone not just the ranger, a real 'hey team let's all focus on this one guy and take...

elf magic basically is a result of having a middle earth science degree in listening to the earth. that's what minigiant is trying to say i believe.

replace it with something else, i'm fine with it existing on their spell list and maybe even having a subclass dedicated to it (shunt all the current main class features that relate to it into that) but not it being built directly into the class. i like what they did with the BG3 ranger with...

i mean i wouldn't be at all opposed...

honestly i prefer find familiar, bigger companions have never really appealed to me personally.

personally i'm not convinced that martials taken as a general whole are so well off that an extra infusion of capability to any one of them is going to break things, i don't think they get enough juice to squeeze outside of combat so making them notably more powerful in it is my go to. also...