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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Minigiant" data-source="post: 8420677" data-attributes="member: 63508">In 0e, rangers got both mage and priest spells. This was to represent 2 things1) to replicate Aragon's skill at healing (priest) and "divination" (mage)2) to display that rangers were men. They were men of civilization using the tools of nature. But by default they were not people of nature.This is a part people and even WOTC/TSR often forget. The D&D ranger learned from druids and wizards. Locate Object. Locate Create Fire Arrow Lightning arrow Nondetection. The high level ranger was part fighting man, part sneak, part priest and part mage. The ranger being a fighter/druid was kinda wrong and an over simplification. A whole party in one capable of handling most threats by themselves. And the 0e and 1e ranger was very good at taking out their favored enemies with they had many of at level 1.So rangers might have been aliens with a religious group as well as more arcane types like hermetic wizards, wild witches, fey nobles, and magical monsters. The concept ran with an idea that rangers were either parts of cells within a larger organization or that rangers had a ton of wilderness and civilized contacts and some one or group would teach them stuff or another ranger who pass down knowledge from other folk.And that goes back to OP's question. The D&D ranger started out as a weird exception and was deviated from fictional and real rangers from the beginning.</blockquote>