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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kaisoku" data-source="post: 5281696" data-attributes="member: 58447">The difference between a Rogue's trapfinding or a Paladin's smite evil is that these are far, far broader in application compared to the Favored Enemy.The Paladin gets a normal bonus against anything evil. That's basically 90% of what you'll be fighting if you are playing a Paladin (usually).The bonus against Dragons, Undead and Outsiders are also quite a large spread, but that's just a "small extra" too.In a world built around normal expectations, traps and trapped things will come up on a regular basis. Now, this could depend on the campaign... but then a campaign focused around surviving on a deserted island (a la Lost), gives plenty of warning to not waste your time training certain skill sets.The Ranger on the other hand, needs to pick a specific creature type (and in the case of Outsiders or Humanoids, a specific aligned or subtype).It's really, really easy to simply never have a single Gnoll in an entire campaign, but the Ranger could easily pick that as a background thing, and now the DM is stuck.Granted, there's ways to try and get around that... but the fact that you have to have ways around it is why some of us don't like the ability.It's not that you have to accommodate the class/character at all that's at issue.. it's the degree of accommodation that's needed, and it all ties into the inflexibility and specificity of the ability._To put it simply: I can build a fairly believable world, focusing on the story elements and verisimilitude without having to resort to worrying over most classes' abilities.With some (such as Favored Enemy), I have to pay special attention. With a simple change in the mechanic, I wouldn't have to.You suggest fixing it at the DM/Player discussion side. We are suggesting that there's also the option of fixing it from the game mechanics side.</blockquote>

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