Vaalingrade
Legend
The terrain books were super sweet. I kind of wish that was the treatment of the planes.I miss Sandstorm, Stormwrack, and Frostburn.
The terrain books were super sweet. I kind of wish that was the treatment of the planes.I miss Sandstorm, Stormwrack, and Frostburn.
It would have been neat if WoTC had gone beyond these three.I miss Sandstorm, Stormwrack, and Frostburn.
Scout rogue with a level of fighter for weapons, armor and fighting styleThis is my favorite kind of characters!
Take a dex-based ancient paladin as a ranger, or a fighter with skulker and poisoner as an assassin.
No because it's the same problem.Does anyone else consider Find Familiar to be a better representation of the ranger animal companion idea than any of companion subclasses?
Edit: less so because of the specific mechanical implementation(the mind link) to perform that representation but instead how it serves to be able to scout and ‘report back’ to you rather than just being ‘a body’ to help fight
I mean companions aren’t exactly high on my list of essential ranger traits, you make a good point but I’d prefer a dedicated companion-summoner-beastmaster class to be able to explore the concept in full rather than struggling under fairly tight budgetary restrictions being a partial fragment of the ranger.No because it's the same problem.
A scout companion
A battle companion
A tracking companion
A flanking companion
A pet companion
A mount companion
Are different companions.
Find Familiar and Beastmaster only touch one of them each.
Ideally you'd want 5-7 ranger subclasses/spells for companions alone.
Because (trying not to be against) the designers of 5e in 2014 nor 2024 were of RPG generations when companion characters were major aspects of D&D.I mean companions aren’t exactly high on my list of essential ranger traits, you make a good point but I’d prefer a dedicated companion-summoner-beastmaster class to be able to explore the concept in full rather than struggling under fairly tight budgetary restrictions being a partial fragment of the ranger.
Though I don’t know why they couldn’t put a half dozen varying archetype statblocks in the beastmaster subclass
I don't even find Find Familiar a good representation of familiars.Does anyone else consider Find Familiar to be a better representation of the ranger animal companion idea than any of companion subclasses?
I miss familiar being real animals.I don't even find Find Familiar a good representation of familiars.
Me too. And I miss the little bonuses they granted wizards in 3e. Having a hedgehog granted an armour class boost, a cat gave a boost to stealth, I think a pig gave boost to diplomacy? That was fun.I miss familiar being real animals.