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The modern 5E ranger is more inspired by Rangers and hunters from real-time strategy games, RPG video games, and comic books. I Remember this week watching someone play a strategy Game on YouTube, which has a ranger unit. And the 3 abilities of the ranger unit is a magic Fire Arrow, the ability...

What i was saying is that item use is probably better in the eyes of fans. But Spells are the only core subsystems. Infusions are supplemental.

There is no alchemists in core DND. That is 75% of the reason why Rangers cast spells in the first place. OD&D rangers were item users before they were casters. It was just that you didn't have control over your item availability.

D&D ranger magic seems to be a flowchart of "Aragorn knows spells because of Elven blood" to " You don't need to be an elf to cast spells in DND." to " Ranger would like to know the spells that Aragon knows from elves" to "Rangers would learn those spells from priests elves and wizards.".

Old school fighter only has class features that help it hit things or survive hitting things.. Everything else is roleplay. That is DM dependent, and thus the DM has to display how they would run it. They have the setting creation power unless negotiation for it happens. With Great Power...

And that's why I say that dm's typically need clout or experience what the players to run. Heavily restrictive settings..

I think you're missing the core element to my point.. In Dungeon and Dragons, the only thing that matters before you tie yourself to the campaign story is your class and your unique stat. Because in D&D, your class makes up 75% to 95% of your characters' playstyle.. Because if you're a...

Every elf is a wizard. Even the babies.

Come on, guys.. To just be honest.. Turtles kinda suck mechanically. People play Tortles to be 1) Ninja Turtles 2) Grandmaster Oogway 2) To stick their heads in their shell If its 1 or 2, you can probably bribe them into being a human and just acting that way with a magical simple weapon..

5 probably not because I threw in the human rogue as a safe bet.. But it is very possible that a person goes to a table with 5 ideas for a character in their head and gets all of them shot down.. Now, sometimes it's because the player has very wild ideas of characters that they want to play...

Player can choose a race or species for gameplay reasons or roleplay reasons. The window hasn't moved that much.. It's no different from old school: human wizard Half elf cleric Elf wizard dwarf cleric grome wizard ...Because fighter and rogue flexibility are dependent on the random...

That's where "something like those" fits in.. For example, the half elf ranger is because the player wants to play a character who belongs to 2 cultures. But doesn't completely fit into each. So it has tangible connections to the cultures but prefers to stay outside of civilized society and...

Let's make it simple. I'll be the player. My First Choice of character is a Half Elf Fey wanderer Ranger Second is a Goliath Barbarian Third is a Kobold Sorcerer Then a Drow Arcane Trickster Last is a Human Rogue Am I entitled to think that I should believe that I should be able to play...

I did say players should comes with a couple character ideas to the table once they are giving the campaign parameters and decide to play. I will add that if you should likely leave if your 4th idea is shot down.. BUT as a DM I'd say the say. If half of your players are down to their 4th and...

Depends, when it comes to kitchen sink campaign because the DM could write a culture and history for each species.. And again, species barely does anything . Really? It all comes down to your setting. Having enough mechanical options and cultural options that your character can role play their...