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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Quixote" data-source="post: 1319197" data-attributes="member: 694">As this community's most avid hater of the 3.5 ranger, I can offer quite a number of alternatives to the current combat style system.  The reason I hate combat styles is because they're the 3rd dumbest idea in the PHB (a close second is barbarian illiteracy... and #1 is monk and paladin multiclassing restrictions).  A monk gets to choose his bonus feats, and may even use them in heavy armor, so there's no reason a ranger should be railroaded and stuck in light armor. The best and most elegant solution is to simply replace the three combat style levels with bonus feats, build a small list that you think fits the ranger, and then not think too much more about it.  I did think about it too much, and ended up constantly revising so often that I finally just had to say hell with it.  And so I ended up going back to the 2nd edition style of "all rangers just fight with two weapons; if you don't like it, tough."  I'm quite happy now, since my players can't argue with me, and I don't have to agonize over whether Stealthy and Animal Friend belong on the ranger's list of bonus combat feats. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>