Favored Enemy: Objects

[Dandu]

Perhaps his wife ran off with an animated object.

 

[kitcik]

Perhaps his mentor was a tool.

 

[Jackinthegreen]

Doesn't the favoured enemy option require a revenge history or something that kind?

And after all, why a man living in the wild lands should be expert of armor or other objects from the city?

Bye, MadLuke.

There are rules for urban rangers. If you use the Wildshape variant then you get Mighty Morphin Power Rangers too.

 

[the Jester]

In D&D there are intelligent objects though. Going with the flavor you mentioned could mean the Ranger was slighted by an enemy or group of enemies with such an object. I realize it seems like I'm grasping at straws, but such a concept is possible.

Yes, those are called "constructs".

 

[Jackinthegreen]

Yes, those are called "constructs".

I'm speaking of Intelligent items, like The Cudgel That Never forgets. If a DM is staying true to the item creation rules, then about 1% of all randomly generated items are also intelligent. These are not treated as constructs because they have no physical ability scores, among other reasons. A Construct would be something like an Animated Object :: d20srd.org.

 

[StreamOfTheSky]

Huh, my group's always treated intelligent items as constructs for the purposes of favored enemy, bane, etc...

And why would not having physical ability scores prevent them from being a construct? Nothing in the construct type requires that you have them, and in order to be a creature, you basically just need charisma and wisdom scores, which intelligent items have.

 

[SnowleopardVK]

Heh, I know one too many players who would treat favoured enemy: objects as just an excuse to break every bit of furniture they could.

 

[Theo R Cwithin]

I'm speaking of Intelligent items, like The Cudgel That Never forgets. If a DM is staying true to the item creation rules, then about 1% of all randomly generated items are also intelligent. These are not treated as constructs because they have no physical ability scores, among other reasons. A Construct would be something like an Animated Object :: d20srd.org.

Actually, Intelligent Items are considered contructs. From the SRD:

Intelligent items can actually be considered creatures because they have Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores. Treat them as constructs.

 

[Jackinthegreen]

Yes, those are called "constructs".

True enough given the latest posts, in which case the better of either FE: Constructs or FE: Objects is used, just like how rangers normally work when a creature has more than one applicable type.