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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 6172808" data-attributes="member: 2067">That's not as big a problem as it may first seem. Much like making a character who is a little bit elemental monk and a little bit martial arts monk, it should be entirely possible to break up Ranger subclasses into discrete bits if an individual wants a little bit of everything. So, you maybe have a few subclasses, call them Orders, of rangers:Order of the Grove allies with druids and has further choices of druidic magic or animal companions (or potentially other things like wild shape).Order of Blood is primarily defined by combat style, allies with fighters, and chooses things like archery or TWF or other things (like perhaps thrown weapons). They're para-military special-forces with survival knowledge. Order of Hunters is primarily defined by their chosen enemy, and follows some of the same logic of the current favored enemies, but isn't tied as intimately to weapon type (no &quot;Bows = Dragons&quot;). You can keep things thematic to the enemy type, like being able to pierce DR for dragon-hunters, but you're more interested in that particular enemy than you are in a particular weapon. And there are characters, like with any other class, who goes more a la carte. Someone could take a single favored enemy ability, a single weapon specializaiton, and a few spells, too.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 6172808, member: 2067"] That's not as big a problem as it may first seem. Much like making a character who is a little bit elemental monk and a little bit martial arts monk, it should be entirely possible to break up Ranger subclasses into discrete bits if an individual wants a little bit of everything. So, you maybe have a few subclasses, call them Orders, of rangers: [B]Order of the Grove[/B] allies with druids and has further choices of druidic magic or animal companions (or potentially other things like wild shape). [B]Order of Blood[/B] is primarily defined by combat style, allies with fighters, and chooses things like archery or TWF or other things (like perhaps thrown weapons). They're para-military special-forces with survival knowledge. [B]Order of Hunters[/B] is primarily defined by their chosen enemy, and follows some of the same logic of the current favored enemies, but isn't tied as intimately to weapon type (no "Bows = Dragons"). You can keep things thematic to the enemy type, like being able to pierce DR for dragon-hunters, but you're more interested in that particular enemy than you are in a particular weapon. And there are characters, like with any other class, who goes more a la carte. Someone could take a single favored enemy ability, a single weapon specializaiton, and a few spells, too. [/QUOTE]

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