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Message: <blockquote data-quote="level2janitor" data-source="post: 8139217" data-attributes="member: 6993619">Looking over the whole class, it feels like they took 5e's PHB Ranger, ripped out the spellcasting, and then tried to make up for the loss of spellcasting by buffing everything else the class has.It absolutely baffles me that natural explorer/favored enemy are here, almost entirely unchanged from the despised PHB versions, with the names replaced with words that mean the same thing. The only difference here is that you can swap the favored enemy on a long rest, and swap the favored terrain after spending two weeks in new terrain. Why do you get a second favored enemy when you can already swap them out? Why do you get three favored terrains??There's also the fact that both your stride-and-seek features take concentration. Why? What purpose does it possibly serve to make a core feature take concentration? Isn't that what the entire community got pissed at when WotC did it with Tasha's ranger? Does any other class in the game require concentration for a core feature?Another common criticism of 5e's ranger is how many of its features just remove a challenge instead of making you better at it, like the goodberry spell just immediately feeding you for a day. Well, the grub hunter knack does exactly that now that the spell is gone. Great. Oh, and the ranger gets zero combat features at 1st-level - another problem with the 5e ranger that has been brought up all the time when people talk about it.So many of these features feel exactly as much of a letdown as 5e's ranger has been for the last five goddamn years. Don't get me wrong, there's definitely plenty of good here; I like the beast friend and call of the wild knacks, I like the idea of ranger getting an attack roll bonus as a core feature (to differentiate it from other martials by being more accurate instead of just dealing more damage), I like that it has maneuvers. But good god, it just falls into all the same traps 5e's ranger did.The people behind A5e are talented, and they're capable of really good design - which is why it's so disappointing to see them give us another shake of the bag full of the same naughty word. Scrap everything taken from 5e ranger, start from scratch, and come up with something that isn't bogged down by all of 5e ranger's baggage.</blockquote>

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