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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 8414536" data-attributes="member: 6779196">See, this is exactly the kind of thing I don’t want from a ranger. I’m fine with the ranger having a deep enough understanding of an animal’s body language to be able to read its desires, perhaps to a degree that is beyond the realm of realistic possibility, and even to be able to communicate back to the animal in a way it can understand. But what I don’t want is for the ranger to be able to wiggle their fingers and say some magic words and then be able to literally talk to the animal. That’s not something a preternaturally talented frontiersman does, it’s something a wizard does.In a similar vein, I want the ranger to be able to camouflage themselves so well they seem to disappear among the trees; I don’t want them to be able to wave a wand, say an incantation, and turn invisible. I want a the ranger to be able to put their ear to the ground and tell you there’s a party of two dozen orcs heading your direction from a mile the Northwest and will arrive in 20 minutes; I don’t want them to cast a spell to ask the spirit of the winds where the orcs are.</blockquote>