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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Winterthorn" data-source="post: 7473201" data-attributes="member: 1702">Waaay back in 1979 when I was a teenager, a friend introduced me to the concept of RPGs and had me build a ranger with a blend of rules from D&D and Chivalry & Sorcery.  His game failed to launch and shortly afterwards I discovered BECMI, which still holds fond memories today, and I never saw an AD&D Ranger until the year 2E was nigh to be released.  I also read Lord of the Rings in the 1980s.  So I always liked the concept of a wilderness warrior, and Strider (Aragorn II) was to me an excellent example of what a human Ranger should be.  Many years and editions later I remain open to variability in the features of such as class, but really do not understand that there seems to be a passion online amongst D&D fans for the ranger greater than any other class. (Excepting of course the much loved Warlord of 4E.). Back in the 3E days the WotC boards would sometimes errupt into a flame storm about the ranger.  There were issues with other classes, but the ranger seemed to me to "steal the show" online.  While in saying I like the concept, I have trouble understanding the passion this class provokes, 'cause this has been going on since well before the Ranger's iteration in 5E.I can only conclude WotC is misreading the audience for the Ranger because of their North American centric ideas about fantasy - which dovetails with my beef of WotCs phobia/bias concerning Witches, but that's a separate issue.  I suspect expectations for character concepts in fantasy have their distinct followings in NA versus Britain and Europe, and of course beyond too. I suppose that is an interesting discussion of itself vis a vis the marketing of stories, films and fantasy games <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="😐" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f610.png" title="Neutral face    :neutral_face:" data-shortname=":neutral_face:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" />TLDR: WotC's design errors seem to me to be a product of marketing errors.</blockquote>

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