Best favored enemies?

[Dr. Zoom]

I'm currently playing a Barbarian 1 / ranger 4 who is about to get to ranger 5. I'm planning on taking extra favored enemy as my level based feat, which will give me +2/+2/+1 after I get the ranger favored enemy.

Shouldn't the numbers be +2/+1/+1? Extra favored enemy starts at +1 when you take it, then the next time you level up and gain another favored enemy, your extra favored enemy goes up, too.

 

[Dr. Zoom]

Favored enemy seems to be very campaign specific. A good choice would be whatever seems to plague your neck of the woods. For example, in Middle Earth, orcs and goblinoids would be good choices.

 

[Andion Isurand]

Do not pick the Beast or Shapechanger as a type

3.5 has removed them

 

[Stalker0]

Do not pick the Beast or Shapechanger as a type

3.5 has removed them

And because of that I think animals and magical beasts will be getting a lot more creatures- so magical beast might definately be a good choice.

 

[krunchyfrogg]

Humans, if you can.

 

[Cespinar]

Humans, Aberrations, Magical beasts, not in that order but should be the best 3

 

[magnas_veritas]

Dragons, without a doubt.

They are some of the most dangerous creatures a party can face. If you have to fight them, you want every available advantage.

I also favor giants because there is a wide variety across the various levels, starting with Ogres and working up. This is quite a bit more campaign dependent though, almost every campaign has you face dragons while giants aren't quite as common.

Yep. Dragons are key. Actually, I'd go Giant first, then Dragon and Evil Outsider. You'll see an ogre before you'll see a demon or devil, but still get reasonably good use out of it at higher levels.

I'm not sure that shapechanger wouldn't still be a valid choice, because it's still a subtype. Of course, that depends on how often you run into leveled were-things.

Brad

 

[tennyson]

I had a question along the same vein:

One of the players in my group chose werewolves as a favored enemy because of his character background. Does that mean he would gain bonuses against all lycantropes (sp?), or just wolves in particular?

 

[Witness]

posted by tennyson:

One of the players in my group chose werewolves as a favored enemy because of his character background. Does that mean he would gain bonuses against all lycantropes (sp?), or just wolves in particular?

Actually, Werewolves, and all lycanthropes, are shapechangers so he would recieve the bonus not only against Werewolves, but all other lycanthropes as well as shapechanging creatures such as Dopplegangers. Apparently though, as someone else already mentioned, the shapechanger creature type is being done-away with in 3.5 so assuming you adopt the new edition, his favored enemies are likely to change.

 

[Li Shenron]

I think that it's specific enough: everything that has an entry in the MM. Demons have one collective entry, as do slaadi, and so on.

Ehh... not so clear IMHO: sometimes I have read FE(Devils) and sometimes FE(Outsider[Evil]).

Another example of ambiguity is FE(Drow), very common in WotC material. But if Drow are an elven sub-race and share the MM entry with all other Elves, why not having just FE(Elves), which DOES include all sub-races? Or it doesn't? It's not that obvious...