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<blockquote data-quote="Minigiant" data-source="post: 8118226" data-attributes="member: 63508">I'm not saying all rangers should be wearing steel plate. I'm saying that the ranger from 3e on is described as a hunter of monsters and defender of civilization from the wilds. Limiting them to archery and TWF and leather armor makes little sense if they are no limited to a single environment. Especially if the world isn't bound to the rules on the real world and their world is littered with monsters.You aint gonna be fighting green dragons and treants with little pokey sticks either but the trees give you ample places to hide. The desert and arctic don't. Not until high level and you get HIPS in some editions.&nbsp; Ambushing people from a tree is a forest thing.So rangers from other terrains in a fantasy universe should not be expected to be TWFing archers in the lights armor available. The ranger isn't a hiker class, it's a killer class. The 1e and 2e ones are fighter types and the 4e one is a striker. The 3e ranger sleeps in a breastplate. You always had to be ready to go kill things. Often big things.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Minigiant, post: 8118226, member: 63508"] I'm not saying all rangers should be wearing steel plate. I'm saying that the ranger from 3e on is described as a hunter of monsters and defender of civilization from the wilds. Limiting them to archery and TWF and leather armor makes little sense if they are no limited to a single environment. Especially if the world isn't bound to the rules on the real world and their world is littered with monsters. You aint gonna be fighting green dragons and treants with little pokey sticks either but the trees give you ample places to hide. The desert and arctic don't. Not until high level and you get HIPS in some editions. Ambushing people from a tree is a forest thing. So rangers from other terrains in a fantasy universe should not be expected to be TWFing archers in the lights armor available. The ranger isn't a hiker class, it's a killer class. The 1e and 2e ones are fighter types and the 4e one is a striker. The 3e ranger sleeps in a breastplate. You always had to be ready to go kill things. Often big things. [/QUOTE]

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