Dread Ambusher is a two-parter: first, a bonus to initiative checks, and second, you open combats with a blitz – boosted speed and an extra attack.They sell a ranger who works alone in overwhelmingly hostile environments. The Gloom Stalker Spells are about evasiveness and control.Five bonus spells known is not a joke when it comes to the ranger’s tiny number of spells known. One of the interesting things about all three of the subclasses is that they expand the spellcasting options, as the Hunter and Beast Master notably didn’t. At low levels (5 th and below), it didn’t really sell itself as all that separate from a Hunter, but I think the player has had a good time. Hey, a subclass that has seen use at my table! In its UA incarnation, at least. I published my own! (With help from Tribality Publishing, that is.) Oh, and if you think I don’t have strong opinions on ranger subclass design, you must be new around here. (The fact that American politics is now wrapped up in telling the rural population that people in the cities aren’t real Americans doesn’t help my outlook here.) The Homelands and Sworn Enemies tables are not especially inspiring either, to my mind. I’ve criticized decades of ranger class design for making them a walking hate crime, and this is the same but different. Those cities are the points of light that give the ranger anything to protect.
This is particularly perplexing for the Monster Hunter, who is all about taming the demon-haunted wilderness.
I’m so not a fan of the idea that rangers – more than even druids – have some superiority complex over cities. The additional flavor text for rangers says, “A relationship with civilization informs every ranger’s personality and history.” That’s an awfully broad brush – the rejection-of-civilization idea here and in the Views of the World table fits almost none of the rangers I’ve seen people play. I’ll find out as I write, I guess!īarbarians and Bards | Clerics, Druids, and Fighters | Monks and Paladins | Rangers and Rogues With seven in total, I may have to be a bit briefer than my usual. Today I’m taking my best shot at the ranger and rogue subclasses of Xanathar’s Guide to Everything.
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