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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 7626894" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>I think you are totally correct there, except that I think that identity crisis got started because the original class so poorly understood the source material it was trying to emulate. </p><p></p><p>The original 1e AD&D Ranger was just a laundry list of things that Aragorn did in the story - right down to using a crystal ball. So the real truth is that there never was an archetype backing up the class. It always just was a disparate list of bullet points. The class was always about what Aragorn could do, and never about who Aragorn was. So naturally the class became more and more self-referential over time, and just kept adding more and more bullet points as more and more ideas appeared regarding what a 'Ranger' was.</p><p></p><p>Trouble is, Aragorn never was a 'Ranger' in the first place. That was in a sense just a disguise he (and all the rest of the Rangers) were in. And while Aragorn was a great woodsman and tracker, that was just something he could do. It wasn't really his identity, or at least it was never the totality of it. It was just some points he invested in some skills: some proficiencies he picked up in a long and varied life.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 7626894, member: 4937"] I think you are totally correct there, except that I think that identity crisis got started because the original class so poorly understood the source material it was trying to emulate. The original 1e AD&D Ranger was just a laundry list of things that Aragorn did in the story - right down to using a crystal ball. So the real truth is that there never was an archetype backing up the class. It always just was a disparate list of bullet points. The class was always about what Aragorn could do, and never about who Aragorn was. So naturally the class became more and more self-referential over time, and just kept adding more and more bullet points as more and more ideas appeared regarding what a 'Ranger' was. Trouble is, Aragorn never was a 'Ranger' in the first place. That was in a sense just a disguise he (and all the rest of the Rangers) were in. And while Aragorn was a great woodsman and tracker, that was just something he could do. It wasn't really his identity, or at least it was never the totality of it. It was just some points he invested in some skills: some proficiencies he picked up in a long and varied life. [/QUOTE]
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