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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bgbarcus" data-source="post: 6688263" data-attributes="member: 6784891">I think people in my 1e games picked the ranger to get 2d8 hit points at first level. They were the combat backbone of the party until third or fourth level when fighters caught up.After that the image of the wilderness survivalist and stealthy hunter was attractive.  Even though we knew Aragorn was the archetype we never had anyone try very hard to recreate him. Probably because, as someone already said, he was more paladin than ranger in D&D terms.Beyond the first few levels the animal companions were a big draw to rangers. But they were always less interesting in play than anticipated.</blockquote>