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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chorn" data-source="post: 1635559" data-attributes="member: 11849">They lack the narrower focus of the ranger.  Fighters train simply to be good at hacking things up.  Ranger training would be that, but with a specific focus on their favored enemy.  This focus applies not only in the martial sense, but possibly a mental or psychological sense as well.  Think of a criminal profiler.  They try to get a feel for how the criminal would think and in doing so predict how he would act.  Remember, the FE bonuses also add checks like Bluff and Sense Motive.The fighter can read his opponent in combat and anticipate a feint, but the ranger has a better grasp of how his opponent thinks and fights better because of that.  Fighters who fight orcs most of the time won't be any different unless they go that extra level and do some studying on what makes them tick compared to humans.</blockquote>