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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 7701231" data-attributes="member: 6704184">But, the beast communication isn't necessarily at all about having animal friends. It's just a feature that makes you better at figuring out what's going on with animals, training or calming them, etc. It's a more flavorful bonus to Animal Handling. I literally can't imagine a Ranger concept that isn't Urban where that works against the concept. At worst, it will be mostly ignored. ANyway, nearly all of my feedback was positive. I did note that the init. bonus and crit feature of Nat Explorer would find a better home in Primeval Awareness, both thematically and in terms of MC balance, and that Ranger Spellcasting is still much too restricted by the spell known thing, and needs tobe more like the paladin. That's it for negatives.General @ thread: I don't want rangers to have anything that is specifically designed for wielding twin weapons. Keep it at melee weapons, and let the ranger decide if that is a two handed sword or spear, shield and one handed weapon, long knife and open hand, etc. But I agree that every ranger should be competent in melee and ranged combat, by default. What if the Lvl 11 Hunter ability wasn't a choice, but instead you get both, and can only use one per round? One thing Neverwinter Online got very, very right IMO is that the ranger's abilities all have a melee and ranged version. The dash back ability becomes a dash forward ability when you switch to melee, etc. and the attack powers do similar but distinct things depending on your weapons, and the whole class is geared around mixing melee and range dynamically, as needed. Slow enemies down with that ranged AoE, dash back, hit them with ranged until the dash recharges, switch to melee, dash in with the big melee attack, etc. It is the most fun of all the classes, IMO, because it plays like a skirmisher, in and out, impossible to pin down, deadly and elusive. Love it. The 5e ranger does a good job of skirmishing, except that it still wants you to pick ranged or melee. I don't dig that. I would really like to ditch fighting styles, and instead get a benefit to versatility of weapon choice, that rewards using melee and ranged weapons.</blockquote>

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