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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eric V" data-source="post: 8791879" data-attributes="member: 6779717">Yeah, we're not disagreeing on the definition of popular.  I don't think we're disagreeing on popularity being the goal of the design, either.  If some aspect of the game was fun but not necessarily popular, it would not make it into the game.The D&D ranger has been conceptually magical for many years, true, but there are people coming into the game without that baggage; they have other pop culture ideas about the ranger (as [USER=18]@Ruin Explorer[/USER] has pointed out) that apparently are not welcome in a game that substitutes magic spells for things that the pop culture examples do without magic.You are also quite wrong about it "just not being to my preference."  Which...of course you are; you don't know me, right?  The truth is, I actually don't care at all, except that I find it a shame that the biggest brand for fantasy RPGing can't make room for a reasonably popular concept from other media.  That's all. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="🤷‍♂️" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f937-2642.png" title="Man shrugging    :man_shrugging:" data-shortname=":man_shrugging:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" /></blockquote>