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It's official, WOTC hates Rangers (Tasha's version of Favored Foe is GARBAGE)
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<blockquote data-quote="Asisreo" data-source="post: 8118556" data-attributes="member: 7019027"><p>Thinking about these things objectively, do these things that had been "skipped" sound like fun? Were you really excited for your character to be lost, starved, and slowed? </p><p></p><p>Most of these things don't matter, they should be skipped regardless, but that's DM-dependent. Either way, I don't think this constitutes, necessarily, an "effective use of your features." </p><p></p><p>Where are all the hazards and struggles? If you were in a jungle, the threat of spider webs, mold, and heavy rain should be constantly looming. Rangers, when facing these things, become less "instawin" while remaining incredibly helpful. </p><p></p><p>Rangers can have expertise identifying the molds and seeing they're hazardous. Rangers get expertise perceiving the Quicksand underneath the canopy of trees. Rangers get advantage when recalling where Parrots are likely to hide and advantage when tracking the monkey so he can interrogate it. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Even when it comes to getting lost and foraging, the ranger doesn't instawin. Just because you know where you are doesn't mean you know where your destination is. You still have to get that info from somewhere, and it shouldn't always be from the patron of your adventure from the start. Just because you forage twice as much food doesn't mean that you automatically succeed in obtaining it. You may have expertise, but you still must roll. </p><p></p><p>The outlander background has more to do with foraging than the Ranger's features do. Even still, it assumes that there's anything edible nearby which there doesn't have to be for several hundred miles in a jungle. Not all berries or animals are edible.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Asisreo, post: 8118556, member: 7019027"] Thinking about these things objectively, do these things that had been "skipped" sound like fun? Were you really excited for your character to be lost, starved, and slowed? Most of these things don't matter, they should be skipped regardless, but that's DM-dependent. Either way, I don't think this constitutes, necessarily, an "effective use of your features." Where are all the hazards and struggles? If you were in a jungle, the threat of spider webs, mold, and heavy rain should be constantly looming. Rangers, when facing these things, become less "instawin" while remaining incredibly helpful. Rangers can have expertise identifying the molds and seeing they're hazardous. Rangers get expertise perceiving the Quicksand underneath the canopy of trees. Rangers get advantage when recalling where Parrots are likely to hide and advantage when tracking the monkey so he can interrogate it. Even when it comes to getting lost and foraging, the ranger doesn't instawin. Just because you know where you are doesn't mean you know where your destination is. You still have to get that info from somewhere, and it shouldn't always be from the patron of your adventure from the start. Just because you forage twice as much food doesn't mean that you automatically succeed in obtaining it. You may have expertise, but you still must roll. The outlander background has more to do with foraging than the Ranger's features do. Even still, it assumes that there's anything edible nearby which there doesn't have to be for several hundred miles in a jungle. Not all berries or animals are edible. [/QUOTE]
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