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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arlough" data-source="post: 5910913" data-attributes="member: 79335">Ugh. This ended up really long, so I will sblock it reduce its consumption of thead real estate.Let's just get this out of the way.  I wouldn't know how to cite Drizzt correctly or incorrectly.  Hell, I had to look up how to spell the name. <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" />I used Drizzt a couple of posts prior to this one simply because many people know him as the guy who dual-weilds a pair of fruity sounding swords, and he appeared in the offline character builder as a ranger at some point.Other than that, to me he is the D&D version of the Ed guy from Twilight. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/yawn.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":yawn:" title="Yawn    :yawn:" data-shortname=":yawn:" />I think we may just have to agree to disagree, at this point.[sblock]I firmly disbelieve that choosing the class ranger makes you a ranger anymore than wearing a Lions jersey makes you a member of the Lions.  The class ranger, to me, is nothing more than a mechanic. Any attempts to reinforce an archtype are, to me, attempts to reinforce a stereotype, which I am disinterested in doing.[/sblock]I look at the classes in the books like Dr. Frankenstein looked at the human body. A pile of mechanics waiting for me to breathe life into them.You, it seems, disagree.  [sblock]You like the idea of classes being a mix of mechanics and flavor to recreate certain archtypes that have become the staples of fantasy stories the world over.  You still find joy, it would seem, in playing to the classic tropes in traditional adventures of high derring-do.Your classic world where the "spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri"* is no longer one I can engage in short of Munchkin.[/sblock]And that is okay.So it would seem that the next edition of D&D is doomed to disappoint at least one of us.  But I still hold out hope that the designers over at WotC are more brilliant than that, and somehow manage to find a way for both of us to be completely satisfied.Cheers<s></s><s>I would love to XP you for this, but it seems I have XP'd you too recently.</s><s>Nonetheless, you have my appreciation. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></s><s></s><s>* to quote Douglas Adams</s></blockquote>

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