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<blockquote data-quote="Undrave" data-source="post: 7987362" data-attributes="member: 7015698">Personally I feel like animal companions in DnD are always a ropey proposition. They always mess with action economy in ways that either make you underpowered or way overpowered and I wish WOTC hadn't felt necessary to put it in the PHB and at least wait until they had more data on the game... but you know, Gnome phenomenon and all that...There's being bad at something and there's being the worst at EVERYTHING. Like, my Way of Shadow Monk is pretty unremarkable in combat compared to our Paladin and Barbarian, but I got great mobility and I'm an excellent scout. I'm never super impressive in battle but in one battle my use of Silence was critical in making a bad situation more manageable and being able to teleport from shadow to shadow is FUN. A class doesn't need to be good at everything all the time to not be 'the worst', it just needs a schtick it can do well enough and often enough that you have story to tell.This! We don't all have hours upon hours to try every class and try to find the best one. If a class feels weak in theory, regardless how good it could be with 'skillful play', I'm less likely to give it a chance compared to a class I feel is cool and has some kind of strength.I'm sure the Ranger can be played well but just looking at the PHB Ranger and I don't find anything particularly interesting about it except a few cool spells.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Undrave, post: 7987362, member: 7015698"] Personally I feel like animal companions in DnD are always a ropey proposition. They always mess with action economy in ways that either make you underpowered or way overpowered and I wish WOTC hadn't felt necessary to put it in the PHB and at least wait until they had more data on the game... but you know, Gnome phenomenon and all that... There's being bad at something and there's being the worst at EVERYTHING. Like, my Way of Shadow Monk is pretty unremarkable in combat compared to our Paladin and Barbarian, but I got great mobility and I'm an excellent scout. I'm never super impressive in battle but in one battle my use of Silence was critical in making a bad situation more manageable and being able to teleport from shadow to shadow is FUN. A class doesn't need to be good at everything all the time to not be 'the worst', it just needs a schtick it can do well enough and often enough that you have story to tell. This! We don't all have hours upon hours to try every class and try to find the best one. If a class feels weak in theory, regardless how good it could be with 'skillful play', I'm less likely to give it a chance compared to a class I feel is cool and has some kind of strength. I'm sure the Ranger can be played well but just looking at the PHB Ranger and I don't find anything particularly interesting about it except a few cool spells. [/QUOTE]

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