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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CreamCloud0" data-source="post: 8709363" data-attributes="member: 7034710">‘Nature’ ‘Stealth’ ‘Magic/Mini-druid’But honestly I don’t know if there is a perfect selection of three I could pick here for my quintessential platonic ideal of what the ranger is.A big part of the ranger identity is being a crazy good survivalist-explorer (if this is what ‘environmental adaptation’ is meant to mean that’s not obvious to me) but the thing about that is that it’s sort of a jack of all trades area of nonmagic skills and abilities: combat, stealth, herbs and healing, they’re slightly lacking in knowledge outside of the nature-and-monsters stuff but for the best part they’re on the ball in most areas, and they even get to dip into primal/divine magic too!While I do love all the magic weapon spells the ranger gets but I don’t feel like they’ve especially nailed the ranger-y feel in concept for some of them.Bows and animal companions are quite iconic for the ranger but not essential to their core identity.Classwise the combination for the ranger for me is fighter + rogue + druid, conceptually it’s ‘jack of all trades survivalist’ + ‘magic and nonmagic nature’ + ‘stealthy tracker’While the poll choices are ranger-ish things i don’t think they’re all ranger things on the same conceptual level, dual-wielding is hyper specific, micro-druid and katniss are both thematic in different ways but overlap with other more species poll options.</blockquote>

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