so the Witcher?
D&Ds over reliance on spells in place of kewl class abilities is a whole different debate, but yeah I wouldn’t mind if the Ranger was a fighter base with access to Druid rituals as standard
Like witchers. A witcher would be a ranger/bloodhunter multiclass.
I think it's less D&D overreliance on magicthat's an issuee and more people not coming to term of what the base assumption of D&D is.
Many focus on "What does the ranger look like?" and not ""Why does the ranger look like this?"
This is why the ranger has so many discussions. Rangers use magic because D&D heavily uses magical and supernatural beings and obstacles in its wilderness.. Ranger must deal with them. Most fantasy settings in Western books and TV are low magic or no magic so rangers don't need magic. If rangers exist as separate entities from fighters at all. Fantasy settings in video games or Asian media are high magic and thus rangers are high magic. So ranger use magic spells or rituals.
Once you open up the skill system, many settings don't really have rangers anymore because their world are too low magic to have rangers as a separate thing.