Letting Rangers skirmish.

[Modeus]

All,

I would like your opinion on letting rangers skirmish just like scouts of equal level.

Would eliminating favoured enemy and the Combat styles for rangers make this a balanced trade-off ?

Regards

 

[ecliptic]

Nope.

I would say a Ranger would need to give up about everything he has.

 

[Tonguez]

What does Skirmish mean mechanically?

 

[monboesen]

Let him choose it as a combat style and give him skirmish +1d6 at the levels he gets combat style feats (2,6 and 11) for a maximum of +3d6 skirmish.

 

[JoeGKushner]

Rangers in the Black Company campaign setting get an ambush ability and no spellcasting. Check it out.

 

[FireLance]

What does Skirmish mean mechanically?

A character with the skirmish ability gets bonuses to damage and to AC after he moves 10 feet in a round. This usually rules out making a full attack, with a few exceptions, e.g. pounce, dervish dance.

 

[FireLance]

Nope.

I would say a Ranger would need to give up about everything he has.

That seems a little harsh, given that I can build a Scout 4/Ranger 2/Highland Stalker 10/Dervish 4 with BAB +19 who can dervish dance twice a day to get seven attacks a round with bonus damage of +4d6 per attack and still get several other nifty abilities.

 

[Frostmarrow]

Is giving up Favored Enemy and spellcasting enough?