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Message: <blockquote data-quote="cleaverthepit" data-source="post: 1504182" data-attributes="member: 13602">Monsters will not be statted except in the most generic of ways. For those that need stats to play, WotC has done a fine job available for free on the SRD or in any number of MM. Saves will differentiate.We will be posting house rules - lots of them - on the website as it seems a lot of people are already houseruling some.  This results from our 'baselining' everything.  Sorta of a minimalist approach.  We are going to create a whole section of the message  boards to houseruling and pull out the best for PDF downloads.The Ranger is an example of baselining. It is a woodsmen of great power. When designing it, we tried to get a hold on the various interpretation of rangers, distill them and relate them to the ranger as an archetype. Considering the military ranger as an extraordinarily dedicated, well trained soldier who goes in first and deep, strider and then robin hood or daniel boone. The underlying themes are fighting prowess and outdoorsman.So we could figure that in fairly easily. Then comes the difficult part, STRIDER.Strider had somemagic about him so the ranger should also right. Hmmm, in my opinion no.  Strider was Isuldur's heir, a numenorian, he was of a different type than the rest. His magic reside in his heritage rather than in his training. The better example of a ME ranger was Faramir - or so we decided in general (there was and still is disagreement). So we went with a baseline of good warrior and good outdoorsmen.The final consideration was the mythoDnD ranger. The DnD ranger has taken on a literary and mythological life of its own such that it is an archetype. But, being the natureof a game with many variations, standardizing this archetype is difficult and IMHO,better left to later development. I imagine that an alternate ranger or two or three will show up within days of release.'Exhumed Esoterica'  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/paranoid.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":uhoh:" title="Paranoid    :uhoh:" data-shortname=":uhoh:" />  I don't know, too close to 'Exhumation and Erotica', and smacks of necrophilia <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> In other news,as soon as I learn to put an image in this post, I will put up the lates rendition of the cover. Should anyone be interested.</blockquote>

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