Tell me if ya'll think this is fair [3.5]

[PinkysBrain]

Bull, it doesn't work for NPCs either ... the increase in the challenge of the encounter is in no relation to having one less feat on the NPC. Using CRs and the EL table might be a poor rule of thumb in the first place, but this makes a mockery of it. You would be screwing your players on experience.

Now, of course the ranger is underpowered in general (the broken PHB2/CoR spells help, but it's too easy to just hijack those spells on other characters to allow them). To only offset that with a freebie cohort for the NPC while leaving players with a broken class would be hypocritical.