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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 6662827" data-attributes="member: 907">Not really. The game stressed that you should put interesting terrain in fights, but the responsibility for doing so rested on the GM. The closest the Hunter gets is an ability called Fortuitous Insight, which gives yourself or an ally a buff to a single roll, flavored as spotting some otherwise unremarkable terrain detail that helps with the action in question (e.g. using a tree root to trip someone).The problem with Lay of the Land is that D&D is, to a large degree, a game about assaulting more-or-less fortified positions (aka dungeon-raiding). In many of these places, having lucky terrain features just lying around makes little sense. It'd be great for random encounters though.Another option for the ranger would be to make it the "gadget" class. If you look at the two most famous comic-book archers, Hawkeye and Green Arrow, you'll see that they have pretty big arsenals of trick shots - nets, grappling hooks, explosive arrows, gas, and so on. This is a tradition that's been carried into World of Warcraft, among other places. It might be too big a departure for some to have class features representing gadgets, but if they're going to offer multiple different rangers in UA I think this kind would be worth a look.</blockquote>