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<blockquote data-quote="Irda Ranger" data-source="post: 4535833" data-attributes="member: 1003">All three of the classes I am trying to name is a &quot;fighter.&quot; Heck, the magic-user class is a fighter too (think Gandalf with Glamdring). So it's clearly overly broad.There are two things wrong with this argument (as well as your &quot;Everyone knows ...&quot; argument above).One, &quot;Ranger&quot; is not a fighting style.&nbsp; Being a Ranger is about walking through dark places and guarding the points of light from encroaching darkness; about going into the heart of the darkness and seeking its source. It's about tracking a foe across hundreds of miles of moor and windy hill and knowing the herb lore of the ancient lands.&nbsp; Rangers stand on the bridge, and no one may pass.&nbsp; From a literary point of view, the Ranger could be any of Stalwart (Wulfgar), Inerrant (Legolas) or Expedient (Marcus Cole).Second, I am not writing a game that requires knowledge of D&amp;D or having played Neverwinter Nights or read Icewind Dale. D&amp;D's preconceptions of &quot;Fighter&quot; and &quot;Ranger&quot; don't apply here. I'm going back to the source material that the majority of potential (new) gamers will be familiar with (Tolkien, Howard, Rowling, Feist, etc.) and building up from there.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Irda Ranger, post: 4535833, member: 1003"] All three of the classes I am trying to name is a "fighter." Heck, the magic-user class is a fighter too (think Gandalf with [I]Glamdring[/I]). So it's clearly overly broad. There are two things wrong with this argument (as well as your "Everyone knows ..." argument above). One, "Ranger" is not a fighting style. Being a Ranger is about walking through dark places and guarding the points of light from encroaching darkness; about going into the heart of the darkness and seeking its source. It's about tracking a foe across hundreds of miles of moor and windy hill and knowing the herb lore of the ancient lands. Rangers stand on the bridge, and no one may pass. From a literary point of view, the Ranger could be any of Stalwart (Wulfgar), Inerrant (Legolas) or Expedient (Marcus Cole). Second, I am not writing a game that requires knowledge of D&D or having played [I]Neverwinter Nights[/I] or read [I]Icewind Dale[/I]. D&D's preconceptions of "Fighter" and "Ranger" don't apply here. I'm going back to the source material that the majority of potential (new) gamers will be familiar with (Tolkien, Howard, Rowling, Feist, etc.) and building up from there. [/QUOTE]

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