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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7886068" data-attributes="member: 996">Prettymuch sheer will of the fandom since the 80s.  The old-school ranger was very hard to make into an adequate archer (DEX was one of the few stats it didn't have a minimum requirement in), which was Robin's big thing (especially as he had been perceived in pop-culture from the 30's through the 80s), heck, in 1e, by the time it got followers -random, weird, supernatural followers for the most part - it also had spellcasting.Yet, it was the woodsy fighter sub-class, so there was just this collective psychic force pressing on TSR like a million voices crying out, and not being silenced by anything but an "unofficial NPC Class" 'Archer' with an Archer-Ranger option in The Dragon. Talk about zeitgeist.  And a noble-born knight back from the crusades, and a leader of a largish band of insurgents...It's been done before as an AC (or AC & REF) bonus to adjacent allies, or variations thereupon, and yeah, it worked for as few as two characters.'Formations' - essentially combat style-like benefits that help everyone in said formation, a shield wall is an obvious example - wouldn't be a bad little option for warlords to facilitate.</blockquote>