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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7633150" data-attributes="member: 996"><p>Except that /was/ it's identity in 2e & 4e (OK, and 3e, really, ever since the whole TWF thing took off - and it makes /no/ sense, nothing about the ranger before 2e screamed "TWF," DEX was one of the few stats it /didn't/ need, and back then DEX was critical to TWFing). OTOH, the Ranger seemed to scream 'Archer' to a lot of people even back then, even more specifically, Robin Hood (I guess because of the woodsiness & good alignment?), to the point that The Dragon presented an Archer-Ranger variant. And, if you did trick out a 1e PC to be great at archery, with high STR (made-for-STR bow for damage) /and/ DEX (ranged attacking adjustment), he also just happened to be really good at TWFing, /also/. </p><p></p><p>So, maybe, that's where it came from: mechanical artifacts of early D&D. Wouldn't be the first thing that graduated from glitch to exploit to feature to identity. (OK, actually, might be one of the earliest - certainly not the only.)</p><p></p><p>And before that, it's identity was Aragorn. The guy what originally wrote it up came right out and admitted it.</p><p></p><p>So what third identity is all that clear, really? And how does it square with that original identity, and it's assumed system-artifact identity?</p><p></p><p> Yeah, putting on your Game Design hat and adding stuff from whole cloth is so much easier than trimming what you don't need... said Sarcastro. </p><p></p><p>Or no spells at all...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tony Vargas, post: 7633150, member: 996"] Except that /was/ it's identity in 2e & 4e (OK, and 3e, really, ever since the whole TWF thing took off - and it makes /no/ sense, nothing about the ranger before 2e screamed "TWF," DEX was one of the few stats it /didn't/ need, and back then DEX was critical to TWFing). OTOH, the Ranger seemed to scream 'Archer' to a lot of people even back then, even more specifically, Robin Hood (I guess because of the woodsiness & good alignment?), to the point that The Dragon presented an Archer-Ranger variant. And, if you did trick out a 1e PC to be great at archery, with high STR (made-for-STR bow for damage) /and/ DEX (ranged attacking adjustment), he also just happened to be really good at TWFing, /also/. So, maybe, that's where it came from: mechanical artifacts of early D&D. Wouldn't be the first thing that graduated from glitch to exploit to feature to identity. (OK, actually, might be one of the earliest - certainly not the only.) And before that, it's identity was Aragorn. The guy what originally wrote it up came right out and admitted it. So what third identity is all that clear, really? And how does it square with that original identity, and it's assumed system-artifact identity? Yeah, putting on your Game Design hat and adding stuff from whole cloth is so much easier than trimming what you don't need... said Sarcastro. Or no spells at all... [/QUOTE]
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