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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 6702941" data-attributes="member: 20323">Some well-articulated thoughts Tom! I am going to disagree with your points however.I actually think narratively, the "Trail" leading to the "Lodge" could make a lot of sense. Sure, it's not as explicit as "your Otherworldly Patron bestows a gift of a Pact Boon upon you for your loyal service", but it's still viable. I think of it as "you've been wandering these many years on the Trail, any it finally leads you to a realization about how you fit into the greater scheme of civilization and nature - a Lodge." The specific language needs work, but the idea has a lot of merit that jives with the theme of the ranger as a wanderer in search of something.Do you have the same criticism of the warlock's Eldritch Invocations? If "no", could you explain why not? If "yes", then this is just a point of personal opinion (which is valid, of course, but not the same as a design critique).That works for most classes, and I agree with you. However, historically in 1e and 3e (and to a lesser extent in 2e), the ranger was a hodgepodge class. 4e tried to focus it into a striker. But at its core concept it was meant to model a specific character from Tolkien's literature with a hodgepodge of abilities. Since then it's been expanded in multiple directions (arguably five main flavors that players desire). So it's a hodgepodge of an interpretation of an originally hodgepodge concept! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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