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D&D 5E Best On Screen Depiction of the D&D Ranger
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Tony Vargas
Legend
I'm sure I've mentioned this before, but few (D&D cartoon, Lodos War) of these depictions have been trying to emulate D&D classes. For the older ones, it's literally the other-way-round. D&D tried to emulate various sources of inspiration - the Ranger, the literary Aragorn, for instance, which the movie version was presumably also adapting. So the comparison is interesting, if the Hollywood & the D&D adaptations of Aragorn are at all similar, they'd be backing eachother up.
houser2112
Explorer
Since the ranger was originally just a serial-numbers-filed-off book-Aragorn, and movie-Aragorn was pretty close to book-Aragorn, he's a no-brainer to me.
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wicked cool
Explorer
Aragorn
isn't Aquaman more of a druid? I know he fights and stuff, but iirc he relied on his animal friends A LOT in Super Friends. like I'm pretty sure that show is what ruined his image more than anything.Again, there can be only one correct answer.
RANGER DANGER!
sort of non-sequitor, I remember the one time as a child I decided to be Link from the Legend of Zelda for Halloween. I finally got Link to the Past that year after years of wanting it and thought it'd be so cool, but when I went to school everyone just assumed I was Robin Hood. we also had a "parade" for everyone who dressed up, a lot of parents explained to their kids that I was Robin Hood. this was about a year before Ocarina of Time came out so I was both 10 years too late and one year too early for people to know who I was.
on that note though, isn't Link a good example of a ranger? he has a horse animal companion, good with a bow, even uses some magic (explicitly via spell in one game). I guess his only real on screen appearance was the Zelda cartoon from the 90's so we'd have to go with that lmao.
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Lanefan
Victoria Rules
In disagreement with @Minigiant , to me one of the two true archetypes of Ranger is Robin Hood: someone forced by circumstance to live off the land and make the wilderness into his ally rather than his enemy. Most of the Merry Men also fall into this category.
The other archetype is of course Aragorn, in his Strider days.
The other archetype is of course Aragorn, in his Strider days.
Does he really live off the land though?
He steals from people and goes back to town to give to the poor. But does he take a cut to feed himself and the merry men?
And the Merry Men. That's a lot of human help, isn't it? They are Merry Men not Merry Treermen, Merry Moldmen, or Merry Bunnymen. Although the Disney one was furry and had bunnies. But they all were animals.
Sounds more like a fighter who took a level of rogue when he got chased into the forest and took Stealth and Perception skills.
I mean how many trees and animals did Robin Hood talk too?
But that's just my opinion. Fox Robin Hood.
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Tony Vargas
Legend
Wierdly enough, the original 0D&D/1e Ranger wasn't even a particularly good archer.
A fighter/rogue would at least have every reason to have a high DEX.
Of course, Robin Hood - a charismatic leader of armed insurgents controlling a territory within the confines of a troubled state in open defiance of that state's legitimate authority - was quite literally a warlord. ;p
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Leatherhead
Possibly a Idiot.
Deedlit is more of an Elf class or at least Fighter/Mage.
So I would have to give it to San, the Wolf Girl, from Princess Mononoke.
So I would have to give it to San, the Wolf Girl, from Princess Mononoke.
doctorbadwolf
Heretic of The Seventh Circle
They don’t control any territory, they’re bandits that have a forest that they hide in.
When the Prince’s men come, they run and hide. They haven’t laid claim, they are loyalists to the King.
Sabathius42
Bree-Yark
I'd vote San in as a monk. A reskinned monk reflecting nature powers instead of karate (aka San with the name filed off) was my ToA character.
Paul Farquhar
Legend
Yes. One of the things he "steels" is venison.
As for spellcasting, the 1980s TV series gave Robin a connection to the minor deity Herne the Hunter.
NB I disagree of the inclusion of Benjen Stark over Jon Snow in the poll. Jon Snow has the animal companion and is therefore more like a D&D ranger (although favouring 3rd edition).
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Again, there can be only one correct answer.
RANGER DANGER!
Now this is fishy, you will not present this as a beastmaster will you???
