Jowgen
2021-04-22, 04:49 PM
Start with the ever popular Mystic variant of the ranger; which grants better spell progression by delaying Favored Enemy and Combat Style progression and loosing Animal Companion.
1: Track & Wild Empathy, 2: Favored Enemy, 3: Combat Styles, 4: Endurance, 5: Nothing
First things first, we swap out Track for Urban Tracking, for reasons to be seen later.
Onto this we now stack onto this two of the "Other Variants" ACFs from Unearth Arcana, which "simply swap one or more of that class's features for one or more class features of another class. A class feature gained works just as it did for its original class, including the level at which it is gained and any other effects, except as noted below."
First:
Gain: Wild shape (as druid; Small or Medium animals only), fast movement (as barbarian).
Lose: Combat style, improved combat style, combat style mastery.
Now our progression is:
1: Urban Tracking, Wild Empathy & Fast Movement, 2: Favored Enemy, 3: Nothing , 4: Endurance, 5: Wildshape as Druid
Second:
Lose: Armor and shield proficiency, wild shape (all versions).
Gain: Bonus to Armor Class when unarmored (as monk, including Wisdom bonus to AC), fast movement (as monk), favored enemy (as ranger), swift tracker (as ranger), Track feat (as ranger).
So if I am reading this right, we now have:
1: Urban Tracking, Track, Wild Empathy, Fast Movement (Barbarian), Wis to AC, Favored Enemy, 2: Favored Enemy, 3: Fast Movement (Monk), 4: Endurance, 5: Nothing
First off, that is quite neat, but what I am wondering about is about the interaction between our two instances of Favored Enemy.
Should they be treated as seperate, i.e. one progresses as regular Ranger and the other as Mystic Ranger, or do we simply advance the progression by an extra step, or some other solution entirely?
1: Track & Wild Empathy, 2: Favored Enemy, 3: Combat Styles, 4: Endurance, 5: Nothing
First things first, we swap out Track for Urban Tracking, for reasons to be seen later.
Onto this we now stack onto this two of the "Other Variants" ACFs from Unearth Arcana, which "simply swap one or more of that class's features for one or more class features of another class. A class feature gained works just as it did for its original class, including the level at which it is gained and any other effects, except as noted below."
First:
Gain: Wild shape (as druid; Small or Medium animals only), fast movement (as barbarian).
Lose: Combat style, improved combat style, combat style mastery.
Now our progression is:
1: Urban Tracking, Wild Empathy & Fast Movement, 2: Favored Enemy, 3: Nothing , 4: Endurance, 5: Wildshape as Druid
Second:
Lose: Armor and shield proficiency, wild shape (all versions).
Gain: Bonus to Armor Class when unarmored (as monk, including Wisdom bonus to AC), fast movement (as monk), favored enemy (as ranger), swift tracker (as ranger), Track feat (as ranger).
So if I am reading this right, we now have:
1: Urban Tracking, Track, Wild Empathy, Fast Movement (Barbarian), Wis to AC, Favored Enemy, 2: Favored Enemy, 3: Fast Movement (Monk), 4: Endurance, 5: Nothing
First off, that is quite neat, but what I am wondering about is about the interaction between our two instances of Favored Enemy.
Should they be treated as seperate, i.e. one progresses as regular Ranger and the other as Mystic Ranger, or do we simply advance the progression by an extra step, or some other solution entirely?