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What is/should be the Ranger's "thing"?
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<blockquote data-quote="Minigiant" data-source="post: 6663704" data-attributes="member: 63508"><p>As I read this thread, my suspicions have been confirmed.</p><p></p><p>A lot of people don't want to be rangers. They want to be fighters with proficiency in stealth, nature, and the healing kit.</p><p></p><p>Not trying to be patronizing or condescending but when describing ranger, many just describe light armored fighters. Nothing on how they avoid being eaten by bears or chopped up by orc bands or skewered by manticores or frozen by blizards or scryed by tower mages or tracked by gnolls or ambushed by bugbears or roasted by red dragons or gnawed by sharks or blown away by tornadoes or swallowed by quicksand or scrubbed by haboobs or poisoned by vipers or charmed by fey princesses or stalked by giant spiders or smashed by giants or sickened by mushrooms or drowned by whirlpools or gored by giant boars or snatched by rocs or dunked by sea trolls or ensorcelled by nymphs or electrocuted by evil druids or tricked by pixies.</p><p></p><p>I blame slacker DMs. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I'm against it because people want it but wont like what they will be given.</p><p></p><p>In gaming, successful pet classes have been:</p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The master is awesome, the pet is very limited (This is the 5th edition and WOW method)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The master is terrible, the pet is an absolute<strong><u> beast </u></strong> (this is the typical beastmaster/tamer/summoner class in most rpgs)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The master and pet are individually weak but you get 2 characters so you have flexibility. (the is the 4th edition version and modern pet classes)</li> </ul><p></p><p>Basically the stronger and less limited the pet, the weaker the master.</p><p></p><p>However many people want a powerful master who can 2 shot a giant with a bear buddy who can go toe to toe with a dragon. This tends to only work in stories and TV shows. Having one player control 2 awesome characters at once with little drawback thends to be bad for gaming.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Minigiant, post: 6663704, member: 63508"] As I read this thread, my suspicions have been confirmed. A lot of people don't want to be rangers. They want to be fighters with proficiency in stealth, nature, and the healing kit. Not trying to be patronizing or condescending but when describing ranger, many just describe light armored fighters. Nothing on how they avoid being eaten by bears or chopped up by orc bands or skewered by manticores or frozen by blizards or scryed by tower mages or tracked by gnolls or ambushed by bugbears or roasted by red dragons or gnawed by sharks or blown away by tornadoes or swallowed by quicksand or scrubbed by haboobs or poisoned by vipers or charmed by fey princesses or stalked by giant spiders or smashed by giants or sickened by mushrooms or drowned by whirlpools or gored by giant boars or snatched by rocs or dunked by sea trolls or ensorcelled by nymphs or electrocuted by evil druids or tricked by pixies. I blame slacker DMs. :D I'm against it because people want it but wont like what they will be given. In gaming, successful pet classes have been: [LIST] [*]The master is awesome, the pet is very limited (This is the 5th edition and WOW method) [*]The master is terrible, the pet is an absolute[B][U] beast [/U][/B] (this is the typical beastmaster/tamer/summoner class in most rpgs) [*]The master and pet are individually weak but you get 2 characters so you have flexibility. (the is the 4th edition version and modern pet classes) [/LIST] Basically the stronger and less limited the pet, the weaker the master. However many people want a powerful master who can 2 shot a giant with a bear buddy who can go toe to toe with a dragon. This tends to only work in stories and TV shows. Having one player control 2 awesome characters at once with little drawback thends to be bad for gaming. [/QUOTE]
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