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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JohnSnow" data-source="post: 5814137" data-attributes="member: 32164">While I agree with you in principle, Hawkeye from the Avengers is actually pretty accomplished as a hunter and tracker. I have some old issues of West Coast Avengers where he shows off his tracking and wilderness survival skills.While I concur on Legolas being basically a fighter, Faramir and the Rangers of Ithilien (some of whom carry bows, and some of whom carry spears, but all of which have swords) are just as much "true" rangers as Aragorn is. The more important point is that "ranger" in D&D anyway, seems to come along with a fairly substantial amount of both "mystical nature warrior" and "skilled in lore."Robin Hood is debatable, because he keeps getting reinvented - but he probably fits best as a ranger, although that doesn't have to mean "archer." In at least some early versions of the legend, Robin is a better swordsman than an archer. Sometimes he's a knight, sometimes not, and in at least one version, he's a mystical pagan warrior - pretty clearly a "ranger" (the Robin of Sherwood television series - great show by the way).However, even if Robin himself is arguably a ranger, many members of his band are also excellent archers - and it's hard to argue that Little John is anything other than a fighter.That said, I think rangers should also be flexible enough to use bows and say, swords - just my opinion. In fact, I think the hardest classes to draw a hard line of distinction between may be the fighter and ranger.</blockquote>

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