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Yogibear41
2016-05-05, 04:26 AM
Most of the divine spellcasting classes are prohibited from casting spells that are opposite of their alignment based on this rule:

"Chaotic, Evil, Good, and Lawful Spells: A cleric can’t cast spells of an alignment opposed to his own or his deity’s (if he has one). For example, a good cleric (or a neutral cleric of a good deity) cannot cast evil spells. Spells associated with particular alignments are indicated by the chaos, evil, good, and law descriptors in their spell descriptions (see Chapter 11: Spells)."

However, Rangers don't appear to have this ruling in their description, does this mean good rangers can cast evil spells and vice-versa?

Inevitability
2016-05-05, 04:33 AM
No. It says a ranger 'prepares and casts spell just as a cleric does', probably including the alignment rules.

The Viscount
2016-05-07, 04:27 PM
I would say that ranger is able to cast any spell on their list regardless of alignment. Firstly while it mentions that it prepares and casts as a cleric does, the restriction about alignment component spells in in a separate section from normal spells, indicating it's not an inherent part of divine preparation.

Secondly, Druid mentions that it casts as a cleric, but the text also repeats the section on alignment component spells, indicating that this is indeed something worth repeating for classes it applies to.

Finally, in the introductory text on ranger under alignment, it says the following.

Evil rangers, though rare, are much to be feared. They revel in nature’s thoughtless cruelty and seek to emulate her most fearsome predators. They gain divine spells just as good rangers do, for nature herself is indifferent to good and evil.

That seems a pretty clear statement, at least to me, that ranger is allowed to cast all the spells on its list.

That being said, ranger doesn't seem to have any core spells that have any alignment descriptors (at least normally). A cursory search found only 2 ranger spells with any alignment descriptor anywhere, both [Good], both from BoED.