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It's odd that you should spend so much time defending the premise that the ranger *now* has this as its identity given that you don't seem to care *when* that happened. My point is simply that it happened at a point where not everyone sees it as a given that rangers should have animal...

It's odd that you should spend so much time defending the premise that the ranger *now* has this as its identity given that you don't seem to care *when* that happened. My point is simply that it happened at a point where not everyone sees it as a given that rangers should have animal...

Man, you would have hated original AD&D rangers -- they could only be humans or half-elves, they had to be of good alignment, and their explicit role was not as protectors of the wilderness, but protectors of those travelling from civilization into the wilderness. No surprise that many saw this...

Man, you would have hated original AD&D rangers -- they could only be humans or half-elves, they had to be of good alignment, and their explicit role was not as protectors of the wilderness, but protectors of those travelling from civilization into the wilderness. No surprise that many saw this...

Depends who you ask -- the ranger introduced in the original Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Player's Handbook had no animal companion feature, nor any way to get one save for DM adjudiction with the 'follower' mechanic that the ranger used at high level (much as the fighter gained 'followers' that...

Depends who you ask -- the ranger introduced in the original Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Player's Handbook had no animal companion feature, nor any way to get one save for DM adjudiction with the 'follower' mechanic that the ranger used at high level (much as the fighter gained 'followers' that...

Curious about the degree of Ranger/Druid commentary in this thread. I think in retrospect, the Druid and Ranger could have encapsulated different mechanical foci, and thus avoided the problems we got in the 5e PH. Speciifcally, the Druid should have been the 'pet class' and the Ranger the 'solo...

Curious about the degree of Ranger/Druid commentary in this thread. I think in retrospect, the Druid and Ranger could have encapsulated different mechanical foci, and thus avoided the problems we got in the 5e PH. Speciifcally, the Druid should have been the 'pet class' and the Ranger the 'solo...

Chris Perkins has already answered the 'why is everything set in the Realms' question with a tweet from April 1 of this year: "The Realms accommodates stories of every flavor, every genre. It's a world of boundless diversity. Nothing & no one is excluded." On one hand, this makes sense -- if...

No worries -- I like being snarky, and probably should have noticed it was your first-ever post. Hope work is going OK! -- Pauper

What's the goal? Are you trying to start an AL community at this game store, or are you just running another game for your daughters to play in? Is there room in the store for multiple tables? Does the store stock all the D&D products, or just the hardcovers, or just the most current stuff...

A+ troll, dude. -- Pauper

Do you even read, bro? That document has nothing but a series of paragraphs about the PC races in Volo's, including information on the required factions that you must take in order to play one. It says nothing about whether the actual monsters in the book count as player options for wild shape...

I don't know that it's a fool's errand, but it does help point up that the hardcover adventures, though legal for Adventurers League, clearly aren't written with it in mind. The real problem is that a simple, "don't farm the hardcovers for loot" rule should be sufficient, but it isn't -- some...

Absolutely true. In fact, I don't know that I've ever met a group that finished any hardcover in a single session, so I'd say this is not just allowed, but required. Also true, precisely because each session has to be considered to be able to stand on its own. This does make for some awkward...

There's part of your challenge right there -- neither WotC nor AL has been very forthcoming with high level content in 5th Edition, so you don't have a lot of options once you start nearing Tier 4, unless you feel like rolling up some new characters (which seems to be both AL's and WotC's...

You are not allowed to take XP and not use it -- if you take XP, you have to apply it immediately. You can't 'bank' XP and wait until after, say, the next adventure to level up. (See "Do I Have To Apply XP When I Get It?" in the FAQ.) Though there's no official rule on refusing awards, the...

So, what counts as 'not finishing' the chapter that doesn't qualify as 'running individual encounters' rather than the chapter? Again, not seeing a rational third option here. Either you run all the encounters in a chapter, or you run not all of the encounters in a chapter, and the latter is...

Wouldn't that mean the monsters in Volo's *are* character options for those characters with those abilities, then? I mean, there are monsters in the Player's Handbook, and they are pretty clearly there to allow PCs options to use for summoning, wild shape, and similar abilities. While I'm...

You might want to re-read it: Since you can't run individual encounters in a chapter as a one-off adventure, regardless of how many individual encounters you consider part of your one-off, you must run the entire chapter if you want to run an encounter from that chapter. You're right that you...