Gentlegamer
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Tolkien's writing style is... not appealing to me, and I know the story. So I'm not interested.
If you also haven't seen Monty Python and the Holy Grail, turn in your gamer-card.
Tolkien's writing style is... not appealing to me, and I know the story. So I'm not interested.
Ok, I'll be serious. It's a code or dog-whistle for "not-Drizzt". According to most grognards, only munchkins/kiddies pattern their rangers after Drizzt. "Proper" players pattern their rangers after Aragorn. The invocation of "Aragorn ranger" is really code for "see old-school players, we're on your side, not the newbs/kids."
How are these ranger related?
My impression of the "Aragorn ranger" is that not all the rangers happened to be Aragorn. Strider wasn't normal, even among rangers. His healing abilities, his entitlement to mended swords and kingdoms, and an elf maiden's love were clearly derived from other sources than his status as a ranger. I think what is left, is something like this:
1. Weapon skill similar to a warrior.
2. Nature-related non-magical skills.
3. A protective attitude toward good-aligned folk.
A Fighting-Man who patrols a wilderness area. Trained well, Aragorn is also good at hunting, scavenging, scouting, stalking, tracking, and surviving adversity. The rest made good plot devices.
A ranger dual-wielding scimitars is certainly rarer than a ranger with a sword or bow, but I don't think one would be impossible (unlikely, yes) in a Tolkien-like setting.
That's not really the complaint. I think the complaint is that 3 editions now, we could only play rangers as two-weapon fighters or bow fighters. It is more hyper-specialized than it should be.
No, I've seen that about three times.If you also haven't seen Monty Python and the Holy Grail, turn in your gamer-card.
Then what's all this talk of druidic magic? The 'they cast druid/arcane' spells in 1e?2. Nature-related non-magical skills.
Then what's all this talk of druidic magic? The 'they cast druid/arcane' spells in 1e?
At least read The Hobbit. It was written for children should be at your reading level...Sorry guys, I'm just not interested in reading Tolkien, regardless of how important LotR is for you.Although I have been looking into Swords & Devilry, and the various Conan stories.