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urge
2014-02-04, 03:36 AM
first of all im gonna say im dyslektic and english is my 3. langue so sorry for the poor spelling.

So i love the ranger concept, but not the execution, so i tryed to make a new version of him, no favorit enamy and no spells more of a "nature warrior" less of a elven sissy ;) any ways woud love if you guys woud take a look at him and tell me what you think. here is a picture of his lvl progression http://imgur.com/VwyszzH

Skills weapons armor ect are the same as the standart ranger (6 Skill points pr lvl light armor marchal weapong) - hp dice is changed to d10

Pls give me all the feedback you can - both in what you woud do diffrend and why - and of you think it is to strong/weak or what ever you wanna say about it.

Maginomicon
2014-02-04, 03:49 AM
First and foremost, you can create the mechanics of some of a ranger's abilities and take out the parts you don't like by looking through the entries for this contest (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=298478).

Second, Alternate Class Features (ACFs) are a thing that let you trade away parts of a class that you don't like. There are two variants for a spell-less ranger, and there are ACFs for trading away things like favored enemy.

Third, also realize that you can create a "nature warrior" out of any class in fluff. If you really want it to have mechanical backing for that fluff, the Wilderness Rogue and other basic variants might be able to accomplish your goal.

Fourth, this thread might be better suited for the homebrew subforum.

Diovid
2014-02-04, 03:59 AM
It is a bit weak as it is now. I don't think there is much reason for you to homebrew anything.

First, there is this small update (http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/cwc/20061013a) to the Ranger's abilities.

To get rid of your Animal Companion you can instead take the Distrating Attack alternative class feature (Player's Handbook II) or the Solitary Hunter alternative class feature (Dragon Magazine #347) or the Spiritual Guide alternative class feature (Complete Champion).

To get rid of your spellcasting you can instead take the Champion of the Wild alternative class feature (Complete Champion).

To get rid of Favored Enemy you can instead take the Favored Environment (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/variant/classes/classFeatureVariants.htm#favoredEnemyVariantFavore dEnvironment) alternative class feature, this can not be combined with the Solitary Hunter acf however.

Also note that Dragon Magazine #326 has other combat styles besides the ones the Ranger normally gets.

See here for more official ranger variants: http://brilliantgameologists.com/boards/index.php?PHPSESSID=4nfqaqs3bmmj98c0gr67fed5c5&topic=7908

BWR
2014-02-04, 04:23 AM
For a dyslexic and your third language, you're doing pretty well. Good job.
You might want to ask a mod to move this to the Homebrew forum.

You might ask your DM if you can play the Pathfinder ranger (http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/classes/ranger.html#_ranger) which has already done a lot of what you want (d10 HD, for instance). It has plenty of archetypes (http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/advanced/coreClasses/ranger.html)(class variants (http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/ultimateCombat/classArchetypes/ranger.html), especially the Skirmisher (http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/advanced/coreClasses/ranger.html#_skirmisher)archetype that replaces spellcasting, and the Guide (http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/advanced/coreClasses/ranger.html#_guide) which replaces Favored Enemy (and yes, you can mix and match archetypes, so long as they replace different abilities).