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<blockquote data-quote="Jack Daniel" data-source="post: 75639" data-attributes="member: 694">Well then that means we know what happened.&nbsp; The sequence of events must have looked like this:1) 1966.&nbsp; Enter Aragorn.&nbsp; Rangers are invented.2) 1985: Unearthed Arcana stats Drow.&nbsp; They fight with two weapons for no apparent reason.3) The designers of 2e, wishing to encourage rangers to stay in lighter armors, added Hide, Move Silently, and two-weapon fighting to the class.&nbsp; The addition of ranger 2WF is as of yet unrelated to UA Drow, since Drizzt isn't out yet.4) 1988.&nbsp; Salvatore, aware of what 2e was going to contain, created Drizzt, the Dark Elf ranger, with those thoughts in mind.5) Drizzt is written up as a single-classed ranger by 1e stats, as that game is still the lingua franca of RPGs.&nbsp; Because there was no open multiclassing back then, &quot;trained as a fighter&quot; meant diddly for this character beyond &quot;ranger levels,&quot; especialy since rangers WERE fighters, and because his character was only called a ranger in the Crystal Shard (remember, the Icewind Dale trillogy came out before the Dark Elf trilogy explored Drizzt's past; for all we knew at the beginning, Drizzt had been a ranger all his life).6) 1989.&nbsp; 2e comes out, rangers fight with two weapons to keep them out of platemail, irrational insanity sets in despite the fact that rangers fighting with two weapons is really, really cool.7) 2000.&nbsp; 3e retains the ranger two-weapon thing.&nbsp; Sane people sing its praises; crybabies whine about it on the internet rather than just rule-zeroing it and keeping their yammers shut.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jack Daniel, post: 75639, member: 694"] Well then that means we know what happened. The sequence of events must have looked like this: 1) 1966. Enter Aragorn. Rangers are invented. 2) 1985: Unearthed Arcana stats Drow. They fight with two weapons for no apparent reason. 3) The designers of 2e, wishing to encourage rangers to stay in lighter armors, added Hide, Move Silently, and two-weapon fighting to the class. The addition of ranger 2WF is as of yet unrelated to UA Drow, since Drizzt isn't out yet. 4) 1988. Salvatore, aware of what 2e was going to contain, created Drizzt, the Dark Elf ranger, with those thoughts in mind. 5) Drizzt is written up as a single-classed ranger by 1e stats, as that game is still the lingua franca of RPGs. Because there was no open multiclassing back then, "trained as a fighter" meant diddly for this character beyond "ranger levels," especialy since rangers WERE fighters, and because his character was only called a ranger in the Crystal Shard (remember, the Icewind Dale trillogy came out before the Dark Elf trilogy explored Drizzt's past; for all we knew at the beginning, Drizzt had been a ranger all his life). 6) 1989. 2e comes out, rangers fight with two weapons to keep them out of platemail, irrational insanity sets in despite the fact that rangers fighting with two weapons is really, really cool. 7) 2000. 3e retains the ranger two-weapon thing. Sane people sing its praises; crybabies whine about it on the internet rather than just rule-zeroing it and keeping their yammers shut. [/QUOTE]

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