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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Undrave" data-source="post: 8116668" data-attributes="member: 7015698">It can be fun to do stuff that has no consequence, to get into character... but that stuff shouldn't be equivalent to class features with more mechanical hooks, because those don't serve the same purpose. Favoured Terrain is about on par with a Rogue's Thieves Cant. It's there, it's cool and flavourful, but ultimately it doesn't engage the player in any sort of decision. It applies or it doesn't, and that's it. You can dress it up in all the fancy roleplaying you want, it's still a poor GAME element. If the features works then nobody knows they were even in danger of death so there's no thrill, and no dramatic impact, it's BORING. At best the Ranger gets to monologue about how AWSOME they supposedly are. The Ranger player might as well play a Fighter with the Outlander background and they can just hire an NPC to guide them.At least then there's a chance the NPC is leading them into an ambush or something. That'd be more interesting.</blockquote>