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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hriston" data-source="post: 6665360" data-attributes="member: 6787503">What sort of reasons do you imagine?People might go out into the wilderness for all sorts of reasons. Grizzly Adams was accused of a crime he didn't commit and went into the Rockies to get away from civilization, and the long arm of the law. Should the Ranger archetype be broad enough to include fugitives from society and hermits, or is that sort of character better represented by a background? Not all outdoorsmen are Rangers, are they?We can assume that characters of a given class are all motivated to gain the skills of that class. The motivation is as general or as specific as the particular skill. The Fighter can have all sorts of reasons for wanting to excel at fighting. The same is true of Rogues and Wizards. I don't think it's too prescriptive, however, to say the Cleric is motivated by devotion to a deity, or the Paladin by a desire to fulfill an oath.The Ranger is rather specialized, and part of this specialization is the knowledge of and skill to track a particular creature, or set of creatures. The Ranger isn't a collector, or big-game hunter. Those types of motivations don't seem too heroic to me. I suppose that kind of objectification could be described as a kind of hatred, regardless, so why not?This does have some interesting implications about the ecology of the campaign the Ranger is part of. Of course, specializing to the point of gaining the benefits that the Ranger possesses would require some focus on the Ranger's part, indicating once again a driving hatred of the creature in question. A Paladin could just as easily take an oath of vengeance against some particular creature, but this wouldn't necessarily extend to an entire race. In contrast, a Ranger is less specialized. It only becomes overspecialization if the Ranger is ineffective in protecting her flock due to concentrating on the wrong threat, which because this is entirely a matter of character concept, seems highly unlikely.</blockquote>

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