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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Khorod" data-source="post: 943764" data-attributes="member: 1636">That's odd, my reading of Favored Enemy in 3rd has been that the old passionate hatred and rage are much played down."Do to his extensive study of his foes and training in the proper techniques for combating them..."So whatever the ranger's reason to select a Favored Enemy, the flavor strikes me as training to figtht particular sorts of enemies, as a hunter of deer masters tracking and precisely and painlessly killing a deer.Looks like they're trying to play it both ways with the same-race-evil comment.  My solution:1) Race breaks down to culture.2) You can't choose your own culture because you have to be eccentric- maybe even evil, by its standards, to not share some of the same subte vulnerabilities of combat style and psychology.3) So you have to be evil, chaotic, or suitably warped by your own cultural standards to choose your own people.I think the entry in the PHB is referring to evil that is the result of utter self-hatred.</blockquote>