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<blockquote data-quote="Jefe Bergenstein" data-source="post: 7485692" data-attributes="member: 31506"><p>I personally don't think there's any design space for it, particularly given that the ranger exists. Give them an extra attack and they already step on the ranger's (weak) martial toes. The ranger only gets 2 attacks, has a sorry spell progression with limited spells known, and their minor exploration benefits are subjective and highly DM/campaign dependent (not to mention quite replaceable with magic). With any additional martial bent, the 9 level spellcasting, shapeshifting druid would grossly "out ranger" the ranger. </p><p></p><p>If you're willing to write the PHB ranger off as a lost cause, I suppose there's some room to explore this concept. But unlike the paladin, there just isn't much of a power gap for anything functional between the full caster and the hybrid version. Either they get decent bow attacks (and then why would you want to be a ranger?) or their bow attacks are basically refluffed cantrips (which is fine, but not enough to hang a subclass on).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jefe Bergenstein, post: 7485692, member: 31506"] I personally don't think there's any design space for it, particularly given that the ranger exists. Give them an extra attack and they already step on the ranger's (weak) martial toes. The ranger only gets 2 attacks, has a sorry spell progression with limited spells known, and their minor exploration benefits are subjective and highly DM/campaign dependent (not to mention quite replaceable with magic). With any additional martial bent, the 9 level spellcasting, shapeshifting druid would grossly "out ranger" the ranger. If you're willing to write the PHB ranger off as a lost cause, I suppose there's some room to explore this concept. But unlike the paladin, there just isn't much of a power gap for anything functional between the full caster and the hybrid version. Either they get decent bow attacks (and then why would you want to be a ranger?) or their bow attacks are basically refluffed cantrips (which is fine, but not enough to hang a subclass on). [/QUOTE]
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