Rangers and 'Shapechanger' favored enemy.

[Ysgarran]

I thought that rangers could take shapechangers as a favored enemy but I couldn't find it in the books. Is this a 3.0 leftover that I have in my brain?

I was surprised to see that lyncanthropes and/or shapechangers were not listed as a possible ranger favored enemy.

Ysgarran.

p.s.
Nothing in the PHB errata either...

 

[Darkness]

I allow it, for old times' sake if nothing else.

 

[Hypersmurf]

Shapechangers were on the 3E list, but not on the 3.5 list.

-Hyp.

 

[Dark Psion]

How do you apply the bonus against a shapechanger, say a doppleganger?

I think that merchant is a doppleganger, so I hit him in the face.

Hmmm no bonus to hit?

Sorry, my bad!

 

[3d6]

Favored enemy gives a bonus to damage rolls, not attack rolls.

 

[sullivan]

Favored enemy gives a bonus to damage rolls, not attack rolls.

And in any event that sort of bonus can stay behind the GM screen if need be.

 

[MatthewJHanson]

Yeah, in 3.0 shapechanger was a type, now it's a subtype. Though I'm pretty sure if I were DMing I'd allow a player to choose humanoid (shapechanger) for lycanthopes and doppleganers.

 

[Odysseus]

It was dropped on the change to 3.5
When we converted , my DM allowed me to take the humanoid (shapechanger) as fav enemy.
And rules that bonus applies to what the creature is, not what it has changed into.

 

[Frostmarrow]

Favored enemy is the worst ability in the game. I hate it. In fact it's my pet peeve. I favor griping about FE more than anything else in the game. In 4E it's got to go.

 

[Pinotage]

Does the damage bonus apply to Undead in 3.5e. It didn't in 3e, I think, so just checking.

Pinotage