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<blockquote data-quote="Toledo" data-source="post: 7626942" data-attributes="member: 6881873"><p>You would love playing for us. One of our two current GM's (alternating campaigns) and world creator (and the guy who hosts us every Friday night) is a former U.S. Army Ranger and sniper.</p><p></p><p>The one single element of our games that I wish would be tuned down is that our host makes Rangers supermen....unfortunately he brings his real life experience of actual Rangers and installs this into D&D Rangers. He allows/brings them to the forefront like no other class. Rangers are the ones who get all the outdoors benefits...Outlanders are no where close. I've heard dozens of times "You don't have a Ranger" or "Only the Ranger could do that" or "You'll die if you don't have your Ranger alive to lead you back" or....you get the picture.</p><p></p><p>He doesn't give them mechanical advantages in fighting that aren't in the books, but his Rangers get all sort of outdoors advantages that other players could only dream of. Basically his rangers get to shine outdoors to a huge extent in everything except in fights themselves. In all situations leading up to a fight, and then afterwards.</p><p></p><p>Fortunately in his current campaign, about 1/3 of our time is now in an urban environment, and our resident Superman (ooops, I meant Ranger) doesn't get to shine as much.</p><p></p><p>Our Ranger GM (an expert optimizer) also personally designed the Gloomstalker/Archer/Hand crossbow/Crossbow Expert/Sharpshooter character for our player who is playing a Ranger. This player gets to shine both in and out of combat.</p><p></p><p>I don't think that GM intentionally wants our PC Ranger to outshine everyone else, but our GM is proud that he has designed such a maxed out combat beast AND with all the real life Ranger skills our Ranger player gets to use all the time, the Ranger in our party shines like no one's business.</p><p></p><p>Oh, the Ranger PC is a member of an elite Ranger company too, the Grey Legion, which has a long and proud and dangerous history.</p><p></p><p>I think you'd like playing a Ranger for us!</p><p></p><p></p><p>(Rereading this before posting, it sounds like I'm ripping on the DM. I'm not...he does a very good job trying to make sure all have fun. His campaign is the best I've played in, well thought out and interesting. He treats all the players well. My character is a Fighter and a lot of extreme moments for me to shine/role playing elements have been added for her. Still, Rangers shine in this GM's campaigns beyond others. If you want to be awesome, be a Ranger! I'm not going to complain because everything else is so enjoyable...but sometimes I'm rooting for the Ranger PC to get sucked into a volcano or the like!)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Toledo, post: 7626942, member: 6881873"] You would love playing for us. One of our two current GM's (alternating campaigns) and world creator (and the guy who hosts us every Friday night) is a former U.S. Army Ranger and sniper. The one single element of our games that I wish would be tuned down is that our host makes Rangers supermen....unfortunately he brings his real life experience of actual Rangers and installs this into D&D Rangers. He allows/brings them to the forefront like no other class. Rangers are the ones who get all the outdoors benefits...Outlanders are no where close. I've heard dozens of times "You don't have a Ranger" or "Only the Ranger could do that" or "You'll die if you don't have your Ranger alive to lead you back" or....you get the picture. He doesn't give them mechanical advantages in fighting that aren't in the books, but his Rangers get all sort of outdoors advantages that other players could only dream of. Basically his rangers get to shine outdoors to a huge extent in everything except in fights themselves. In all situations leading up to a fight, and then afterwards. Fortunately in his current campaign, about 1/3 of our time is now in an urban environment, and our resident Superman (ooops, I meant Ranger) doesn't get to shine as much. Our Ranger GM (an expert optimizer) also personally designed the Gloomstalker/Archer/Hand crossbow/Crossbow Expert/Sharpshooter character for our player who is playing a Ranger. This player gets to shine both in and out of combat. I don't think that GM intentionally wants our PC Ranger to outshine everyone else, but our GM is proud that he has designed such a maxed out combat beast AND with all the real life Ranger skills our Ranger player gets to use all the time, the Ranger in our party shines like no one's business. Oh, the Ranger PC is a member of an elite Ranger company too, the Grey Legion, which has a long and proud and dangerous history. I think you'd like playing a Ranger for us! (Rereading this before posting, it sounds like I'm ripping on the DM. I'm not...he does a very good job trying to make sure all have fun. His campaign is the best I've played in, well thought out and interesting. He treats all the players well. My character is a Fighter and a lot of extreme moments for me to shine/role playing elements have been added for her. Still, Rangers shine in this GM's campaigns beyond others. If you want to be awesome, be a Ranger! I'm not going to complain because everything else is so enjoyable...but sometimes I'm rooting for the Ranger PC to get sucked into a volcano or the like!) [/QUOTE]
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