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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GreatLemur" data-source="post: 2350269" data-attributes="member: 28553">I kind of like the idea of letting the player choose more specific Favored Enemies (such as "soldiers of the Stragos Empire" instead of "humans") in return for larger bonuses.  The same can work for Favored Environments ("the Briarwoods" instead of "forest").Of course, that would only increase the Ranger's most annoying limitation: He can only use his primary ability when the DM feels like serving up some of his favorite victims.  So I also have to bring up a the possibility of more general Favored Enemies.  I honestly don't think it would be terribly unbalancing to lump all humanoids together (or into savage and civilized humanoids?), as well as all animals and vermin (and nonsentient magical beasts?), all constructs and undead, etc.Another alternative would be to let the Ranger change his Favored Enemy from time to time.  Obviously, the restrictions on this option would have to be pretty severe.  I'd either make them story-based ("Now that Zaela has finally defeated the goblinoid horde that menaced her town, she can dedicate herself to fighting the rising tide of undead that plague the eastern reaches."), or task-based (like a few days of research involving a good library and a few skill checks, then one or two direct combats against the intended target species before the bonuses start kicking in).New combat styles, of course, are a great idea.  Has anyone ever heard of an option allowing Rangers to focus on herbalism (for both healing and poisons)?  Or maybe trap-building?  Those seem like very appropriate alternatives; somebody must have already tried them.</blockquote>

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