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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ashrym" data-source="post: 6635664" data-attributes="member: 6750235">No where did I state within 1 to 6 miles and nowhere in the text does it state 1 to 6 miles.  The 1 mile minimum is something not stated that you added.  Within 1 mile encompasses all area within that 1 mile radius.  Within up to 6 miles encompasses all area with a radius up to 6 miles.  There's nothing being read into it.  Not in favored terrain it's within a specified distance up 1 mile.  In favored terrain it's within a specified distance up to 6 miles.The duration is there because if the ranger is sensing the creatures up to 80 feet away and they are not within the 80 feet (which is a distance within 6 miles) then he senses them the moment they enter within that 80 ft radius because of the duration on the ability.This gets back to, "Don't try to interpret the ability to make it a bad ability."  A longbow fires an arrow up to 600 feet away but that doesn't mean every archer needs to shoot an arrow 600 feet away.  They can all aim at targets up to 600 feet away and any target within that space.  Even if it's only 10 feet.  Primeval awareness isn't any different when used in favored terrain, and it's already not that useful unless in favored terrain; making it worse if favored terrain by simply making the haystack around the needle bigger is a bit backwards.It's the "completely aware of his surroundings ability" and the ranger could be moving around with it set to 20 feet if he wanted to, maintaining it for 5 minutes, and using it to warn him undead are approaching.  When the creatures cross into that area he even knows how far away they were because he set the area.  Then he knows to hide.My "interpretation" is a natural language interpretation that does exactly what the text says and includes that "up to" qualifier that you are trying to ignore.</blockquote>

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