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The Dual Wielding Ranger: How Aragorn, Drizzt, and Dual-Wielding Led to the Ranger's Loss of Identity
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<blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 8251968" data-attributes="member: 6801228"><p>I can't say you are wrong, but I want to refer back to the evolution of the character. Because one thing people need to remember is that classes really need to stay the same throughout, just evolving deeper into their archetype. </p><p></p><p>When the class was written as "I am Aragorn!" It involved changing from him before the events of LoTR and into a warrior-king. They shifted. Aragorn's whole point is that he is the king, and yet he does this other fighting and stuff because he doesn't want to accept that. </p><p></p><p>Sure, the Rangers of the North might fit into what I'm talking about, but Aragorn was an oddity among them. His point wasn't to do anything more with the Rangers, and in fact, he never interacts with any of them as far as I know. And where this starts mattering is in specific feats. "Well, Aragorn used a plant to heal, because he was a king and therefore rangers shouldn't have magic healing" is brought up CONSTANTLY. Seriously, every single discussion about rangers, someone wants to remove magic from the Ranger class because Aragorn didn't use magic. </p><p></p><p>Do we want to talk about the Rangers of the North and how they fit into this? Great. Let's talk about that. Let's not talk about Aragorn. He isn't a ranger at his core. Being a Ranger was his job when he was running away from his destiny.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Chaosmancer, post: 8251968, member: 6801228"] I can't say you are wrong, but I want to refer back to the evolution of the character. Because one thing people need to remember is that classes really need to stay the same throughout, just evolving deeper into their archetype. When the class was written as "I am Aragorn!" It involved changing from him before the events of LoTR and into a warrior-king. They shifted. Aragorn's whole point is that he is the king, and yet he does this other fighting and stuff because he doesn't want to accept that. Sure, the Rangers of the North might fit into what I'm talking about, but Aragorn was an oddity among them. His point wasn't to do anything more with the Rangers, and in fact, he never interacts with any of them as far as I know. And where this starts mattering is in specific feats. "Well, Aragorn used a plant to heal, because he was a king and therefore rangers shouldn't have magic healing" is brought up CONSTANTLY. Seriously, every single discussion about rangers, someone wants to remove magic from the Ranger class because Aragorn didn't use magic. Do we want to talk about the Rangers of the North and how they fit into this? Great. Let's talk about that. Let's not talk about Aragorn. He isn't a ranger at his core. Being a Ranger was his job when he was running away from his destiny. [/QUOTE]
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