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<blockquote data-quote="Ancalagon" data-source="post: 7407425" data-attributes="member: 23">Sounds like a fun character - let us know how it turns out!Context is important - what are you trying to do vs what choices do you make.&nbsp; I once was in a party where we needed a &quot;tank&quot;.&nbsp; Buuuut I really wanted to play a gnome ranger.&nbsp; So I made Darwinimar, a melee-focused ranger with high dex, shield and short sword (and decent con of course).&nbsp; (He was sort of an arid hills/desert warrior).This was *not* an optimal choice for a front-line tank!&nbsp; Now it was a viable character and it was fun, but a barbarian, fighter or paladin would probably have been better, and probably a human, half-orc or dwarf would have been better than gnome.&nbsp; This would be an example, I believe, of a sub-optimal character, *in this context*.&nbsp; In another party where there already was a party tank and we needed a scout-party guide, he would have been a &quot;better&quot; build... but even then someone could have argued that a archer build would have been &quot;better&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ancalagon, post: 7407425, member: 23"] Sounds like a fun character - let us know how it turns out! Context is important - what are you trying to do vs what choices do you make. I once was in a party where we needed a "tank". Buuuut I really wanted to play a gnome ranger. So I made Darwinimar, a melee-focused ranger with high dex, shield and short sword (and decent con of course). (He was sort of an arid hills/desert warrior). This was *not* an optimal choice for a front-line tank! Now it was a viable character and it was fun, but a barbarian, fighter or paladin would probably have been better, and probably a human, half-orc or dwarf would have been better than gnome. This would be an example, I believe, of a sub-optimal character, *in this context*. In another party where there already was a party tank and we needed a scout-party guide, he would have been a "better" build... but even then someone could have argued that a archer build would have been "better". [/QUOTE]

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