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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 8414772" data-attributes="member: 6704184">I mean, nice goof, but it's genuinely something that is a big part of the archetype, and would make the class stand out. If Pass Without Trace were a Ranger Class feature, instead of Hide In Plain Sight, we'd be on our way to a good Ranger without spells. But likewise, let the ranger shoot arrows into a cliff face to give the whole team a bonus to athletics checks to climb and checks or saves to avoid falling while climbing. Let the ranger coordinate scouting and keeping watch, giving everyone a bonus to perception. Let them set a hidden camp that is comfortable but hard to find or spot. Let them increase travel speeds without risking exhaustion. Let them remove a level of exhaustion from someone else during a short rest, and cook food that gives THP or restored extra HP during a short rest. Then give them stuff like the Hunter Ranger's level 3 features, but with more choices, and let them pick more at later levels. Then give them abilities learnt from rangering in different enviroments, that are useful more broadly than in a given environment. Combine all that with a limited resource, which might as well be spell slots so that those of us who want spells on our ranger don't have to give up a subclass to have that, and a simple list of features that use that resource, with stuff like poultices that heal a bit and give some other benefit, traps, creature type specific poisons (dragon, fey, etc, but also huge or larger creature, flying creatures, etc.) that deal damage and impose some manner of debuff, weird stuff like when Aragorn listened to the ground and was able to identify two hobbits walking in a group of orcs from miles away, and the ability to befriend an animal and at-will ability to communicate simple ideas with animals. Boom. You've got an excellent Ranger that does things no one else does, has an easily understood role in 2 of 3 pillars at least, and certainly we could find some Insight/Perception/knowledge/ based things for the Ranger socially.</blockquote>

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