Is the 3.5e Ranger yours?

[Wormwood]

An improvement over the 3.0 version.

Perfect? No.

Good enough? Yes.

 

[Steverooo]

I can understand the desire to represent a "Robin Hood/Aragorn" type, however, and D&D is still missing it.

Fighter/Rogue would work fine for both of them.

I humbly disagree... Neither Fighter nor Rogue has Wilderness Lore/Survival, which I see as being necessary to either one...

I agree with you about Uncanny Dodge instead of Evasion, however... I would also give Rangers high Will saves, instead of Reflex, to set them off from Rogues. The most important asset to wilderness survival is often the will to survive!

 

[ForceUser]

The 3.5 ranger is a fine class, but he's not my ideal ranger. My ideal ranger is not a spellcaster, nor is he limited to two-weapon fighting and archery. I've toyed with the idea of modifying the 3.5 ranger by simply allowing bonus feats instead of forcing the two-weapon and archery paths, and with removing spellcasting and replacing it with a d10 hit die.

 

[Pants]

I humbly disagree... Neither Fighter nor Rogue has Wilderness Lore/Survival, which I see as being necessary to either one...

Kinda forgot about that one small factor

 

[Olive]

Kinda forgot about that one small factor

take the Cosmopolitan feat from the FRCS.

 

[hong]

I think the 3.5E ranger is fine, even the spellcasting bit. IMO, unless you have spellcasting, there's just not that much left over to distinguish a ranger from a multiclassed fighter/barb, barb/rogue or fighter/rogue. No, the TWF thing doesn't really count.

 

[Tsyr]

Is it close to my vision of a ranger?

Not even close.

 

[diaglo]

Is it close to my vision of a ranger?

Not even close.

ditto.

 

[maddman75]

Exactly. And for my vision of the Ranger, I'd multiclass into a Wizard. Solves well for all three scenarios: 1) Nature/Divine spells, 2) Arcane spells, and 3) No spells.

And if you want Aragorn, take a couple levels of paladin. Blood of Numeneor and all that.

 

[Desdichado]

I like the 3.5 Ranger quite a bit, and I have a "thing" for the "Ranger archetype" -- but I think the Woodsman class from WoT or the Wildlander class from Midnight both do it better.