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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gammadoodler" data-source="post: 9391748" data-attributes="member: 6914290">My complaint is that both the damage (e.g. aiming for the weak spots) and the tracking (e.g. tracking) are things that you could expect a hunter to do normally because hunting is their profession.Hunter's Mark unnecessarily ties those things to spellcasting in the form of a spell with no obvious magical effect.It is a failure to reinforce the hunter class fantasy..AND a dilution of the wonder of magic.Maybe the solution IS to make spell more magical.But, for me, I see no compelling narrarive reason for it to be a spell in the first place. It'd be simple, instead, to just say that Rangers can "aim for the weak spots" (to do more damage), and "track" (to track) the creatures they are hunting.Edit: To illustrate, if you were to interview the most grizzled, experienced Ranger in all of D&D and ask them how it is that they can find and kill their chosen prey..would you expect the first words out of their mouth to be "Well you see, I've got this spell.."</blockquote>