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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TrippyHippy" data-source="post: 5953163" data-attributes="member: 27252">Rangers shouldn't have fighting styles. Leave that to the fighters. They should have survival and hunting styles. Give 'em a decent HD (D10) and a decent basic fighting ability (maybe with a favored quarry), but leave all the fancy maneuvers to the Class that trains for that sort of thing. Rangers are too busy training on other things, like trapping, tracking and first aid in the wilderness. Rangers have the capacity to be a separate class to Fighters, so long as their 'niche' is thematically and mechanically different. Rangers can have different themes and backgrounds too - anyone who travels, hunts or survives as a focus is essentially a Ranger. I would include Fisherman (background), Bounty Hunter (theme), Warden (theme), Scout (theme) and Shepherd (Background) all as being Rangers. I would make their primary Ability Constitution, incidentally, not Dexterity. A ranger can be clumsy, as long as he survives.... Curiously, though, I wouldn't include a Marksman. A specialist archer, trained in sniping in warfare situations is definitely a type of fighter, even if it's a long distance style of fighting.</blockquote>