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Message: <blockquote data-quote="David Howery" data-source="post: 5941088" data-attributes="member: 17239"><p>'nature is good'?  Not in my DM days, it wasn't.  Rangers being good made sense, since they were essentially modeled after Aragorn in LOTR; people who protected people not from the wilderness itself, but the bad things that live in the fantasy wilderness.  I always figured them as being wise in the ways of normal critters, focusing more on things like humanoids and monsters that threatened to come out of the wilderness and attack innocent farmers and villagers.  But for the PCs adventuring in the wilderness, I never pulled any punches.  I had quite a few home-brewed rules for things like finding food and freezing in snowstorms (I'm also the guy who invented rules for jungle fever when you drink the water in a swamp)... when the WSG came out, I gleefully applied the rules from it to make life even more of a hell for the trekking PCs.  And of course, one of the best things about adventuring in the wilderness is those wide open spaces... no turtling up in a 10' wide corridor.  Attack from all sides, no worry about how a fireball fits into a room, etc.  I usually drew up my own encounter tables to be heavily oriented towards herbivores (always more common than predators, and also more useful to hungry PCs) and had monster types a lot more rare.  Nature was never 'good' in my campaigns, and getting through it was usually an adventure in itself...</p></blockquote><p></p>

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