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<blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 8810451" data-attributes="member: 6704184"><p>Idk, I think both the Tasha’s primal beast and the UA revised Ranger BM work great. </p><p></p><p>Something similar to warlock, maybe, yeah. I’d be Fine with BM in the base class separate from the main subclass choice, like pact boons, but I’d need them to take up a little more of the power budget than the warlocks pact boon does. </p><p></p><p>I mostly agree with this. Especially the first part. </p><p></p><p>In 5e, I don’t see an elegant way to do this that doesn’t leverage spell slots. Having to sacrifice subclass to gain Spellcasting is a nonstarter. This is where I’d look more to the artificer than to the warlock for inspiration. I know some folks cannot abide the thought of nonmagical abilities using spells slots, so I’d be fine changing it to a monk style set of points called Hunter’s Focus or something. </p><p></p><p>It’s one of my least favorite published subclasses. It doesn’t need to be a ranger subclass and would work better as a fighter, it is very weird in terms of mechanics supporting theme with the summoning, and it shouldn’t cost anything to have the pet available, all cost should be associated with boosting its efficacy. </p><p></p><p>And I’d rather not get flight than get it at that late a level. At that point it’s a waste of a feature level that could have been doing something interesting.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="doctorbadwolf, post: 8810451, member: 6704184"] Idk, I think both the Tasha’s primal beast and the UA revised Ranger BM work great. Something similar to warlock, maybe, yeah. I’d be Fine with BM in the base class separate from the main subclass choice, like pact boons, but I’d need them to take up a little more of the power budget than the warlocks pact boon does. I mostly agree with this. Especially the first part. In 5e, I don’t see an elegant way to do this that doesn’t leverage spell slots. Having to sacrifice subclass to gain Spellcasting is a nonstarter. This is where I’d look more to the artificer than to the warlock for inspiration. I know some folks cannot abide the thought of nonmagical abilities using spells slots, so I’d be fine changing it to a monk style set of points called Hunter’s Focus or something. It’s one of my least favorite published subclasses. It doesn’t need to be a ranger subclass and would work better as a fighter, it is very weird in terms of mechanics supporting theme with the summoning, and it shouldn’t cost anything to have the pet available, all cost should be associated with boosting its efficacy. And I’d rather not get flight than get it at that late a level. At that point it’s a waste of a feature level that could have been doing something interesting. [/QUOTE]
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