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<blockquote data-quote="Steverooo" data-source="post: 2751588" data-attributes="member: 9410">Rangers, All The WayNo doubt about it, Rangers have always been my favorite class.&nbsp; I love playing a stealthy, perceptive survivor, even though he's lacking the skills to do much about whatever he detects, and the need for cover often invalidates the Hide skill.&nbsp; It's a tradeoff, since the Cleric's Produce Food &amp; Water makes his Survival skill pretty useless from level one on, and finding the way isn't usually that big a deal.&nbsp; The low AC and lack of feats makes the Fighter, Barbarian, Paladin, and even Rogue and Bard at least as good a combatant as he is, and he is the single WORST Semi-Spellcaster!Still, he has a good mix of skills, and can do a lot.&nbsp; He isn't &quot;The Best!&quot; at anything but tracking (and that's not important very often), but there's little that he can't do, at least to some extent.He makes a loust replacement for any other class, but an excellent &quot;fifth wheel&quot; for parties with the four core slots filled.&nbsp; I hate playing weak, wimpy spellslingers with few or no abilities, or even string casters with a few abilities who strain my disbelief.&nbsp; A wilderness-wise perceptive hunter I can handle, even if his skills are rarely that useful, and he becomes an &quot;also-ran&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Steverooo, post: 2751588, member: 9410"] [b]Rangers, All The Way[/b] No doubt about it, Rangers have always been my favorite class. I love playing a stealthy, perceptive survivor, even though he's lacking the skills to do much about whatever he detects, and the need for cover often invalidates the Hide skill. It's a tradeoff, since the Cleric's [I]Produce Food & Water[/I] makes his Survival skill pretty useless from level one on, and finding the way isn't usually that big a deal. The low AC and lack of feats makes the Fighter, Barbarian, Paladin, and even Rogue and Bard at least as good a combatant as he is, and he is the single WORST Semi-Spellcaster! Still, he has a good mix of skills, and can do a lot. He isn't "The Best!" at anything but tracking (and that's not important very often), but there's little that he can't do, at least to some extent. He makes a loust replacement for any other class, but an excellent "fifth wheel" for parties with the four core slots filled. I hate playing weak, wimpy spellslingers with few or no abilities, or even string casters with a few abilities who strain my disbelief. A wilderness-wise perceptive hunter I can handle, even if his skills are rarely that useful, and he becomes an "also-ran". [/QUOTE]

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