D&D 5E Convince me that the Ranger is a necessary Class.

[doctorbadwolf]

You don't in individual stances.

But you will if you want to create a majority of fans.

Something built for one person is often built differently than something built for millions.

I cannot imagine caring whether the geographical, biological, zoological, context of a fantasy RPG class is accurate.

It’s a fantastical heroic warden of the places where civilization meets The Wild, with a mystical connection to Nature. It needs trope literacy, not scientific knowledge.

 

[Metroido]

The question is not whether you can try something, the question is whether or not you can ever succeed at something. If you want to waste your characters time trying something that the rules will not let you do, absent the ability to do, so that is your choice. You can no more Grapple without the ability to do so than you can cast Magic Missile without the ability to do so.

Have you ever been in a real fight?

 

[Corinnguard]

I cannot imagine caring whether the geographical, biological, zoological, context of a fantasy RPG class is accurate.

A ranger is more likely to have been taught as an apprentice to an older ranger or a druid on the ways of the wild than to learn in the halls of academia about nature.