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Give your RP skills a kick in the beasmaster! Listen to our tips on how to build a fun and original ranger character.
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@WebDM 6 лет назад

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@arthuraugustus5808 6 лет назад

Ever think you could do a video on Matt Mercer's Bloodhunter

@AudrenDev 6 лет назад

You spoke of the Witcher being close to the Monster Slayer; but what if you multiclassed into Bloodhunter for the dark fantasy flavour? Idk if it's a viable build, but it's good flavour!

@PyroX792 6 лет назад

I love the new shelves! I'll miss those box fans in the background though.

@Valdagast 6 лет назад

You missed the Aarakocra Airborne Ranger.

@LecherousCthulhu 6 лет назад

Crocodile Hunter Dundee

@mrmarkov7656 5 лет назад

Peasant: what have you rangers done greater than the great battles of the paladins? Ranger: have you ever seen a chimera? Peasant: no Ranger:🤨

@garberasandor9699 2 года назад

Ranger: You. Are. Welcome.

@Number1masksfan 2 года назад

Peasant: what have you done that is more impressive than the kings mage Ranger: have you ever been troubled by ankheg or a hill giant Peasant: what are those, no such thing is exists Ranger: well I help keep your misconceptions about that

@stephenpatterson2860 6 лет назад

This is so perfect, I'm starting a ranger character for the first time tomorrow night! Playing a Gloom Stalker, using the Centaur UA that was just released. Super excited, I think they synergize very well.

@danreed4250 6 лет назад

Stephen Patterson make him a mongol

@rastalynmelinaya622 5 лет назад

John Wick. Urban ranger avenging his slain animal companion (the puppy)

@rustyshackle8000 Год назад

Some character concepts I thought up! -Half-Elf Beastmaster/Hunter. The bastard of elven and human nobility, the ranger was raised on the outskirts of Elven society, and found themselves a useful go between. To reflect all this, take the Noble background and have decent Charisma. -Dwarven Gloom Stalker. Inspired heavily by Dragon Age Origins, this ranger is a member of an ancient detachment of dwarven scouts, responsible for holding back the monstrosities at their doors, often leading adventurers and clearing paths. Take Soldier background -Halfling Beast Master. Choose a mastiff or wolf. Essentially, you're just a shepherd who became very good at hunting and tracking beasties that attacked your herd with a sling, atop your mighty steed. Folk Hero would work wonderfully! -Half-Elf/Human Hunter/Fighter Multiclass: You're the secret heir to the throne, but your family has a tradition that all heirs must first prove their right to rule by patrolling the lands they will once govern, learning the cultures and peoples within it before ascending tot he throne. Yes...this is literally just Aragorn.

@galvaton10000 6 лет назад

Would Smokey the Bear be a Ranger? Druid? Bar-bear-ian?

@Rankerquat 6 лет назад

My favorite Ranger PC has always been "Shitty Witcher" _"You wanna know what these two swords are for? This one's for slaying monsters, and this one's in case I lose the first one. He-yump."_

@PhuckKnuckles 6 лет назад

Y'all know me...

@daisyjohnson4837 6 лет назад

this is the actual funniest fucking thing ive ever read

@kristopherterry1778 5 лет назад

This is so core to my setting I regularly disarm my players and even break less "customized" weapons

@Oops-All-Ghosts 5 лет назад

Bringing a spare weapon with you in a setting where monsters can survive getting bludgeoned with a sword for over a minute seems pretty smart to me.

@ussliberty8898 3 года назад

@@Oops-All-Ghosts Suddenly boot dagger!

@Sunny_Punkin 6 лет назад

I like the Idea of a ranger whose favorite enemy are Oozes because they just love the sound of oozes going splat.

@celebiRULES555 6 лет назад

Make it a Ranger who has trouble sleeping, so he uses ooze slimes to calm down. He's an ASMRanger XD

@cynzix 4 года назад

@@celebiRULES555 And make it an Asimar too

@GrassPokeKing 4 года назад

Cynthia Moraes An ASMR ASMR-anger

@KAPsub2 6 лет назад

I never really saw rangers as civilization haters. They've always seemed to me like a go between for druids and common folk or like specialist mercenaries, very integrated in civilized towns and cities but still very comfortable in the wild.

@Golden_Raijin 4 года назад

See: Pied Piper. Lives outside town, but ventures in to make some coin and practice their trade. And when they're offended, they use natural, archaic magic to torment the civilization that scorned them

@keepermovin5906 3 года назад

This probably happens because people don’t put much in charisma with rangers a lot of the time

@LupineShadowOmega 3 года назад

@@keepermovin5906 Also because one of the most iconic rangers in the game is from an antagonist race.

@Zilegil 3 года назад

I mean if you’re not integrated into society that doesn’t mean you hate civilisation

@elijahherstal776 19 дней назад

Rangers don't hate civilization, they just don't want to deal with the HOA.

@Licjr 6 лет назад

I see a conjurer overseeing the training of horizon walkers. "Yeah I can open a portal to another plane, but there's dangerous stuff on the other side so I'm gonna make sure these guys are as well-trained as they can be, and send them on my interdimensional errands

@gypsywolf9145 6 лет назад

Kinda like a dnd SG1

@dimitriapostolopoulos3662 5 лет назад

@@gypsywolf9145 more like a dnd chief petty officer

@AllThingsFascinate 5 лет назад

@@gypsywolf9145 omg this is great

@z_zoom11 6 лет назад

I had a character who was an elf, and had previously fell in love with a human. She of course died and he was devastated, he then vowed to protect her village for 4 generations(one for each year he spent with her). Anyways he was fun

@Tanglangfa 6 лет назад

What a very elven thing to do! Forget years. I’ll do it for generations. Nice!

@seanh6482 6 лет назад

Love this!

@Hebdomad7 6 лет назад

Elf then gets bored after generation two and starts to "speed things up a little" to get out of the contract early...

@z_zoom11 6 лет назад

Phill early level villains be like:

@iv0rysh0es39 6 лет назад

Sort of like Arwen

@Painteagle 6 лет назад

I like the motivation of a ranger who has beasts as a favored enemy not because of anything that they've done, but because he's just really good and understanding their animal instincts. And he doesn't kill them out of duty but because civilization had pushed out their natural predators and they're growing too fast. Also, he ships any captured beasts off to his family land for further study and public education.

@scarecrowking138 6 лет назад

The beast master would interact with the world by sitting down and being sad because their subclass is underpowered despite being really cool

@danreed4250 6 лет назад

Jack O' Lantern unearthed arcana ranger if you’re allowed it’s really good

@solsticelacer 6 лет назад

There are things that go bump in the night. And we are the ones who bump back.

@iv0rysh0es39 6 лет назад

The dark blade in the light. Using the shadows to further the light. When Justice does not see the light of dawn, rectify the balance under the cover of night.

@alexanderchippel 6 лет назад

Teifling ranger. Who files down his horns. And kills ex-Nazi Russian mystics.

@necromanticgaming 5 лет назад

#hellboy reference

@AllThingsFascinate 5 лет назад

@Regular Slime gloomstalker in Obi Wan voice: "hello there"

@mordiveer5957 6 лет назад

I like the idea of each ranger subclass being like the different schools in the witcher series, all part of the same organisation but with different styles and areas to protect/observe. They have secret fortresses far from civilization where apprentices learn the basics before going out with a master and finally getting their own territory to look after. I imagine they could even be a private organisation funding themselves by selling pelts and other bits of creatures to wizards and such.

@knightingale7151 6 лет назад

This is brilliant. I'm stealing this.

@duncanince8429 6 лет назад

I love the Monster Slayer because there are so many great characters in media that fit into it. Geralt of Rivia, Hellboy, Van Helsing, and the list goes on!

@steveunderwood9307 5 лет назад

Speaking 9d silliness, I recently made a kenku who's home town was Roc's Fall and it becomes an undead hotbed shortly after he left to go adventuring. There will be warning signs on the road "Roc's Fall: EVERYONE dies!"

@RainbowRandolf 6 лет назад

I've had an idea for a ranger ever since watching The Brother's Grimm. A charlatan Monster Slayer who goes around preying on the lack of expertise about the supernatural from village to village, but when it comes down to actual big bad monsters knows his shit. He may not even always stand up to them because he knows exactly how dangerous it can be. Always go for the easy payday but can be dragged along, kicking and screaming, by a sufficiently good party when shit really hits the fan. Rangers being this ultimate scion of good and virtue always kind of bugged me. Maybe there is a real reason they don't interact with people: they just don't get along with them at all.

@mikegould6590 6 лет назад

I have a player at my table whom has a Genasi Horizon Walker, and it made sense. A half-elemental raise by his Djinn mother to watch the horizon for their Efreeti enemies. He then found the thin membranes between places to scout and watch whom might next attack his beloved flying city of silver, and protects his home with an enchanted musket infused with elemental power. He's a great character who has no room for the petty politics of single-plane mortals.

@RiderOmega 6 лет назад

Bill Simmons Excuse me but I explicitly read these comments for cool character descriptions like these.

@andrewwestfall65 6 лет назад

Bill Simmons, nobody cares about what you have to say and you won't shut the fuck up. Why should anyone else?

@the_rose_garden01 6 лет назад

Bill Simmons How is he the jerk? You're just being an ass

@consensuslphisk 6 лет назад

Bill Simmons lmao I cared, its a neat concept, fuck off

@the_rose_garden01 6 лет назад

Reague of Regends Nah, you're just an ass. He isn't hurting anyone. If you don't like it, ignore it

@nuclearchezburgr3857 6 лет назад

Every single one of these episodes of this series makes me wanna play these classes! I've never cared for Rangers but I would play one after watching this.

@AceTaxiaGaming 6 лет назад

Nuclearchezburgr 385 they are a lovely class to play, I have a human Ranger Beastmaster myself

@DrPluton 6 лет назад

I've never played one either. If I did, I would choose Horizon Walker because it seems interesting.

@ericpeterson5924 6 лет назад

Half elf Hunter Ranger, no manners and a bit crazy but man can he shoot

@anthonynorman7545 6 лет назад

Nuclearchezburgr 385 so true!!!

@camerondilbon2248 6 лет назад

My very first character was a half-elf ranger/cleric, playing AD&D with some great guys back in '88. Great times!!!

@blakebrockhaus347 6 лет назад

Open video. Press pause. Like. Watch.

@BYOBando 6 лет назад

Every video. I'm right there with you. Keep slaying it Web DM

@SnarkyRogue 6 лет назад

Why do you need to pause the video to like it?

@jacobbeaudoin5486 6 лет назад

SnarkyRogue so you don t miss those sweet intro puns

@SnarkyRogue 6 лет назад

If that minute amount of multitasking is too much for you, man... just uh... good luck with life.

@abcrasshadow9341 6 лет назад

So you just watch a paused video for? What like an hour? :P

@35november 6 лет назад

"Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with bows. Who's gonna do it? You? My existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives! You don't want the truth, and while you don't talk about it at taverns, you want me on that wall. You NEED me on that wall." - Nathan Jessup, Veteran Ranger

@theonlymatthew.l 5 лет назад

He would appreciate it if you refer to him by Colonel, he's quite certain he's earned it...

@ussliberty8898 3 года назад

Trump 2020!

@crabmaster8174 3 года назад

@@ussliberty8898 I agree but why are you saying this here, you make us all look bad!

@raz802 3 года назад

@@ussliberty8898 r/thatdidntagewell

@DragonKnightJin 6 лет назад

"The night is dark and full of terrors." Gosh dangit, Davis! Now I wanna make a Light Cleric that burns things because of that reason! Also, they're a bit jumpy. No, that's not me justifying their pyromania..

@jacksonl.2201 6 лет назад

paranoid pyromaniac

@ZeriocTheTank 6 лет назад

A royal order of rangers reminds me of the book series "A Ranger's apprentice" (I think that's what it's called lol). If memory serves me correctly they're an order of rangers. Being part of a secluded order that's assigned to protect civilization in the shadows before the problems become know to the general public. I can work with that. Honestly I'm just happy that you guys finally covered my favorite class lol.

@jacksonl.2201 6 лет назад

my thoughts went there too

@the_rose_garden01 6 лет назад

Ranger's Apprentice, yes! I loved those books when I was in middle school

@jacksonl.2201 6 лет назад

Only the first 2 books have anything resembling magic

@creepinNinja413 6 лет назад

ahh miss that series

@DevilDawg941 6 лет назад

Yes the Ranger's Apprentice series was a pretty good series and the ranger's magic which was precieved as magic by the common folk that didnt have the understanding was just cleaver sleight of hand and slieght of eyes. They also had understanding of the world and how things work like when Will's sneaks into the castle in the trees and he waits for the wind to rustle the leaves before moving would be considered pass with a trace or some other stealth magic.

@Talarue 6 лет назад

Triton ranger with a trident add noble background and bam... you have now made Aquaman.

@michaelarkangel518 6 лет назад

Isaac McNally nice call! Didn’t think of that one!

@brosephnoonan223 6 лет назад

Reague of Regends Aquaman being useless is a meme. He's literally Wonder Woman but with the ability to command aquatic creatures, and cast bullshit Atlantis magic.

@Talarue 6 лет назад

I think like 5e vanilla beast master works as it has been memed for similar reasons. Or you could just use the revised ranger or one of the archtypes from xanathars, and not hamstring yourself for the sake of memes.

@ShurikenSean 6 лет назад

38:08 suddenly have the idea of an urban ranger and inquisitor rogue buddy team up to solve crimes

@escalatordropdown5057 6 лет назад

ShurikenSean Inquisitor Rogue and a War Cleric for a Sherlock and Watson duo!

@ShurikenSean 6 лет назад

was more going for a clash of world views, knowledge of natural world vs knowledge of man-made the two not liking the other's thinking but respecting the others strengths

@iv0rysh0es39 6 лет назад

I'm playing an Inquisitive Rogue/Drunken Master Monk right now. He's essentially Captain Sherlock Sparrow

@WisdomThumbs 5 лет назад

Urban tabaxi ranger (urchin) here, and my friend’s playing his sorcerer brother (criminal). Waterdeep isn’t ready.

@hamstsorkxxor 5 лет назад

@@iv0rysh0es39 I would like to thank you for writing that sentence :) you inspired one of my, and my players favourite NPC:s! Which in turn lead to an short but very appreciated urban crime sleuthing arc!

@Maxbeedo2 6 лет назад

First campaign I ever played for more than one session always had at least 4 Elven Rangers. Whenever a player dropped out, their replacement always picked Elven Ranger. And always archery, not two-weapon fighting. Everyone wanted to be Legolas.

@DrLipkin 5 лет назад

I think it's funny that Legolas is most associated with rangers. He was actually more of a fighter. Especially in the movies when he's action surging all over the place. Aragorn was actually the ranger of the fellowship. He was the tracker that was uncomfortable around people but had a connection to animals. Yes, I know your comment was from 11 months ago. I thought this was funny enough to comment anyway.

@toribiogubert7729 5 лет назад

@@DrLipkin Legolas is associated with D&D Rangers cause he did similar duties as the Aragorn, but in his home florest. But both of them were multiclass for me XD

@Bluntz1289 3 года назад

That's funny because he's not a ranger LOL

@MrFForger 6 лет назад

Urban Ranger: you mean Green Arrow?

@Iliketoeatallday 6 лет назад

MrFForger shoots the bandits, roll to quip.

@johnhast1979 6 лет назад

MrFForger With his trick arrows wouldn’t The Green Arrow be closer to an arcane Archer. An arcane archer/shadow monk . Those two classes I think would be needed to make a Green Arrow . Or at least that is how I would do that .

@davidotoole2853 5 лет назад

YOU HAVE FAILED THIS CITY

@asielromo3399 6 лет назад

The only ranger I’ll play is a Power Ranger

@HunterTSilver 6 лет назад

Asiel Romo what color

@ranger7827 6 лет назад

Walker Texas Ranger

@sparsehumor7521 6 лет назад

Fuck you. I hate that this made me smile.

@the_rose_garden01 6 лет назад

sparslyhumerd no Open Hand Monk/Hunter Ranger

@sparsehumor7521 6 лет назад

DracoFlyer maybe more of a kensei for a specialized weapon.

@jacksonskinner7879 6 лет назад

The Ranger's Apprentice series offers some good fodder for role playing too.

@probablythedm1669 6 лет назад

The urban ranger that comes to mind is basically the groundskeeper monster slayer that watches over the cemetery. Because this is D&D and a lot of crazy shit and creepy monsters like corpses, or are corpses, or make corpses into monsters, or want parts of the dead and so on. "Well, last night I had to put Mrs. Henderson to rest for the 4th time... I really need to find the bastard that keeps animating her. Then I had to chase away Bessie again, damn otyugh keeps sneaking up at night to snack on the really ripe ones down on the poor side, you know, where we dump the ones no one has claimed. Can't kill her either, because then I'd just have to burn all the bodies and that's just a waste. But she needs to be gone by morning or it turns into a whole mess with people screaming about the monster and suddenly there are adventurers all over my cemetery hunting for Bessie and looting the graves. We can't have that,, now can we?"

@ericrobinson2611 6 лет назад

Batman is a Gloom Stalker :-p. I like that they kind of respecced Gloom Stalker to be more general, instead of specifically tied to the Underdark. It makes the archetype more broad/open to some fun interpretations.

@ericrobinson2611 6 лет назад

Note that I don't really see a Ranger as having to shun/avoid civilization necessarily. I do think the loner aspect drives the class, but being among people, but operating outside of the constrains of civilization, to me, is what makes a Ranger go.

@shadowgear7032 6 лет назад

Reague of Regends he is every martial class and every non evil alignment

@123thebigdog 4 года назад

So the part we’re you guys said “making the rangers magic more skills or equipment” I love that idea.

@WarpWalker 6 лет назад

Dragonheart was a great movie. I must have been eight years old when I first saw it. Watched it over a dozen times between then and when I made my first D&D character at the age of 10 for an AD&D campaign. He was a Human Fighter named Draco, and he used a battle axe. I will forever defend the legitimacy of that movie. Regardless, great episode as always guys.

@WisdomThumbs 5 лет назад

I’m soon to play a Tabaxi Ranger... from Undercliff, who has lived in Waterdeep since childhood. He can handle the woods, but he’s just at home in the city of wonders, familiar with its secrets, its rooftops, its famous alleys and its denizens. I took the Urchin background, and another player is his sickly Sorceror brother (Criminal background). The DM is letting me treat the city as wilderness. Reading about Waterdeep and immersing myself in it is thrilling. And my player-brother is a bona fide edgy genius, so naturally we gave ourselves adoptive halfling parents who named us “Scamper Damper” and “Snowball.” I never thought I’d be so excited about an anthropomorphic animal character.

@milesmatheson1142 6 лет назад

I've always seen Urban Rangers as being city-hopping hobos. They know all the "hobo signs" to look for, that denote danger as opposed to plentiful food or shelter. Hagrid is a perfect example of the Urban Beastmaster.

@LuusiWolfe 6 лет назад

Ranger Apprentice is a great book series that shows a great way to play a Ranger

@josephlkraft 6 лет назад

My Monster Slayer Ranger became one by total accident. He used to be a charlatan rogue who impersonated the great monster hunter "Hans Velsing" so much that he had to become a ranger to keep the lie up XD Going through Curse of Strahd with him currently :)

@Bluecho4 6 лет назад

Fake it 'til you make it: the source of many an adventurer. Wonder how many fake holy men in DnD became so popular, the god they purported to speak for decided to make them a Cleric for real. "What? You SAID you were my prophet. I'm just giving you what you asked for. Now, about your holy quest..."

@AGrumpyPanda 6 лет назад

This deity would of course have the biggest shit-eating grin cos they either A) just got rid of a false prophet, or B) just got their will enacted anyway.

@inkblotCrisis 6 лет назад

My DM did away with the Tundra/Desert/etc and simply had Wilderness, Dungeon, Urban.

@inkblotCrisis 6 лет назад

True it's unimmersive, but when you spend all that time away from your terrain of choice the option you picked turns useless. Spec'ing for Desert due to starting the session there then the entirety of the campaign is spent in Tundra is what happened to one of our games. Hence my DM made that decision.

@dracon501 6 лет назад

Reminds me of the Grey Warden in Dragon Age Origins.

@the_rose_garden01 6 лет назад

Dan Young Oh dude, yes. I didn't even think of that. That's awesome

@collin6691 6 лет назад

Favoured enemy: dark spawn

@johnhast1979 6 лет назад

Yeah but with out the Grey warden blood Poisoning .

@skeletorjesus7692 6 лет назад

This channel completes me

@WebDM 6 лет назад

Your username completes me

@skeletorjesus7692 6 лет назад

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@WISEARIES89 6 лет назад

Best of both worlds a really nice guy but king of insults for early 80s cartoons.

@DragonKnightJin 6 лет назад

Dragonheart is a bad movie.. But it's the enjoyable kind of bad. Bit of a guilty pleasure for me, personally. Same as the Street Fighter movie from the 90's. Examples of movies so bad, they kinda looped around to being fun again.

@nomnomgoblin8901 6 лет назад

Yay, new webdm before i gotta get to work, good way to start what's effectively my Monday.

@WebDM 6 лет назад

Have a good day at work!

@shrapnelsponge 6 лет назад

I really need to find someone else to DM so I can play my halfling beastmaster ranger that rides his animal into battle...

@Fionor01 6 лет назад

Now I want to play Ranger vigilante named Ratman. With mask, tail (instead of cape) and wise old butler.

@joshkaid 6 лет назад

My first ever character was a Ranger. Because of that I have kind of a soft spot for it.

@JackOfAllSkillige 6 лет назад

Currently playing a revised Gloomstalker and he is my favorite character. He’s a young human who was branded by the darkness of some nature goddess, turning him into a gloomstalker with a kind of warlock patron relationship that my dm makes awesome

@mhreborn 6 лет назад

I would absolutely love to play a horizon walker as a sort of planar Gypsy, travelling through the different planes, collecting odd trinkets and telling fortunes with his planar Tarot Deck. Also Horizon Walker is somewhat viable for a throwing weapons based character, you can now finally play as Gambit in D&D!

@JonHerzogArtist 6 лет назад

In a real medieval fantasy game, I love the idea of Rangers being the opposite of Bards. Bards who come from noble courts, who spread the news & song among the towns and villages, who represent the "voice of authority" - versus Rangers who come from the fields and the forests, who may be unwashed and rough, but who won't use a silver tongue to disguise the truth. That's good drama!

@lynx655 6 лет назад

Jonathan Herzog Matthew Colville fan here.

@ishmiel21 6 лет назад

I love this series and have recommended it to all my players. I kinda wish that you guys had talked aobut how a ranger would fit into a party. Most of the stuff you talked about in this episode fits better with a solo ranger, rather than a member of a party. Any thoughts on working rangers who live on the edges and spend so much time alone fit into an adventuring party? Thanks, dudes!!!

@ross8093 6 лет назад

My idea for a ranger is a Minotaur who came from a very expansive and rich metropolis that is built into, around and under a mountain. A sort of city state where Minotaurs, Goliaths and bird-like races like Kenku and arrakockera (idek if that's spelled right) along with Dueragar that they've allied with for prosperity. But the city is gone. Something came for this advanced society vibrant with diverse magic and martial ability that was very in tune with nature and decimated it to such a degree that only my pc survived. Who as a horizon walker chased after the extra planer entities that caused the devastation. And when they eventually find their way back. Time has moved much differently. Their city is an aincent ruin overgrown and forgotten. Their race is now feared and hunted by others. So my character is basically a bull person out of time and the view on the world is one that saddens them to see much of civilization has become disillusioned with nature and the respect it deserves and so many people they once shared a home with are treated much the same as his own. With Goliath being ostracized and Kenku being mistrusted. Not to mention that natural thin veils between other planes are much fewer and much farther between than they were. It's an idea that mightn't work so well in practice but I've come to like the more i think on it.

@aaronbarringer4913 6 лет назад

"Give your RP skills a kick in the beasmaster!" I think there is a typo there, but it would be funny if there was a creature called a beas.

@ValkyiaTV 6 лет назад

One way a player of mine has used the ranger is as a hunter with the criminal background.. Played him as a bounty hunter.. Favoured enemy humanoids. That was a fun character

@superultragamer8245 6 лет назад

My passive perception picked up the fact the 2 wooden dice in the back keep switching numbers

@telkei3365 6 лет назад

I love the idea of a horizon walker ranger, multiverse traveler, and the idea of fighting eldritch monsters

@williamfawkes8379 6 лет назад

Pruitt, I love the picture of you as Navarre from Ladyhawk, it's a great reference, although he would actually be a perfect battlemaster fighter. Aside from the movie, looks very rangery

@bobbaganooch2843 6 лет назад

Need to RP a Dark Elf Ranger from Menzoberranzan... plz help

@Talarue 6 лет назад

You got a laugh outta me. Gratz.

@goblinpopcorn1367 6 лет назад

Is he good aligned? Lemme guess he has a giant panther as his companion too?

@the_rose_garden01 6 лет назад

Bobba Ganooch Just remember that the Warlock is right; your race is evil and you should be too. It's more fun

@iv0rysh0es39 6 лет назад

Take the duel wielder fest, for starters.

@GamerNxUSN 6 лет назад

Have a creepy relationship with a girl you helped raise

@Sindal55 6 лет назад

I've got a half orc gloomstalker. He found himself trapped in the underdark after 'things' happened. He'd just recently made friends with a band of satyrs, and spend a majority of his adolescent life down there before emerging again into civilization when they finally found an exit. He doesn't enjoy the work per say, but his companions at the time kept a cheery demenor. So the dark never bothered him. I play him as 'the older big brother you threaten other people with on the playground' Nice guy. Scary as fuck if you give him a reason to hurt you.

@martianmatt82 6 лет назад

I wanna invent a dnd tamagotchi that takes care of mechanics behind raising an egg or young animal as a companion

@MonkeyWhoWouldBeKing 6 лет назад

take your silliness seriously... my player's Dragonborn paladin is the literal son of Tiamat and is from "Newcitywhodis" in avernus xD

@TVlord5 6 лет назад

Urban Rangers get pretty sweet uniforms... L

@nono-ch8oy 5 лет назад

The Rangers Apprentice book series is a great place to get inspiration for your ranger that shows them as an outsider and yet still part of the community and war effort.

@iGuttsi 6 лет назад

I kinda feel the Eldritch Knight kinda gives off a more Witcher vibe too

@robertkercher1980 4 года назад

I've always enjoyed the ranger class, they can be played in so many ways good, shitty, ranged, skirmisher, jack of all trades its always something new. Even a dual wielding Drow ranger is actually fun to play. I tend to prefer the "guy with a trick up his sleeve, or one in his boot or under his hat" type character (Basically Jarlaxle). Give a ranger a portable hole and a cloak of useful items and pow, shenanigans aplenty. If your DM is down with multi classing even better so many little extras you can use in both combat and role play, Just makes the Ranger so easy to play. Now with all the extra sub-classes even more so.

@giraffedragon6110 5 лет назад

My favorite concept of a ranger type character are the Rangers of the book series: Rangers Apprentice. It’s a essentially a no magic environment where the closest it gets is a oathbreaker mind dominates an entire race of what might as well be gnolls. Anyways imagine there’s 50 rangers most around level 10 or so, and say the best of the best are from level 15-20. So essentially 50 Batman’s that work directly under the king. Surrounded by tons of superstition as it’s easier to do their job if they seem mystical. These 50 or so rangers might have among the total group around half as many initiates. The Ranger system is ranked too Bronze: apprentice/ initiate Silver: current member of the Corps Gold: retired/paperwork bound Oh and imagine them all having a non magical equivalent of the “cloak of elven kind”

@joyful 6 лет назад

thank you for discussing travel time and rp. i played a CoS campaign where the dm just wanted die rolls for combat and exhaustion from the cold. sometimes the entire 3-4 hr session was this type of gameplay. absolutely no rp at all.

@PlatinumP14 6 лет назад

Making your HUNTER'S mark on the campaign.......heh heh..................I'll stop now

@ErebosDK 6 лет назад

What about a Van Helsing arch type for an urban ranger? Monster slayer would fit quite well there.

@InquisitorThomas 6 лет назад

ErebosDK yeah in D&D Beyond’s video leading up to Xanathar’s Guide release they basically said the Monster Slayer is designed for people who want a Van Hellsing flavored Character.

@tylermallory9977 6 лет назад

I've been loving this series of RPing classes, they always give me a few ideas for characters that make me think outside the box.

@chazdomingo475 4 года назад

I'm playing a Dwarf Ranger right now. He's Drizzt style, but obviously not emo. I'm playing him fairly blue collar because that's how I like my dwarves. I took Trade Sheriff background because I think it really fits what I want him to be. He's just a pragmatic dwarf capable of looking after himself out on the road while he tracks down any bandits or undead... harassing dwarven caravans.

@tessadeborst406 6 лет назад

I was hoping for this episode for a few months since I played my first character a ranger in our only campaign, and two days ago he died. Better late than never i guess... Great vid btw, love the series

@michaelwhite6849 6 лет назад

Tom de Borst same, not dead yet though haha only 2 sessions in. Lol

@lynx655 6 лет назад

@coolnamebro7363 4 года назад

Absol from pokemon is seen as a creature that brings disasters wherever it goes, but it in fact detects disasters and show up to warn people but people don't know that so they hate and shun them I can see that in a ranger like. There is the old Half elf who was fey touched as a child and every-time he comes to town satyrs and nymphs and hags show up to seduce and spirit away the common folk so they don't let him in town or they board up there houses and gather the children when he makes an appearance, they see him as a monstrous menace but he just wants to help and warn them that it's the time when the feywild/material boundaries intersect so be careful.

@TheHonzoh 6 лет назад

"Ooth-gart"... Uthgardt. Or angry nature bois

@1samuel1314 4 года назад

I play a Horizon Walker. A TON of fun to play. Has a great background. Wonderful addition to a group dynamic.

@TheCoulsonlax 6 месяцев назад

I miss webdm. They’ve opened so much to me on how to play and immerse myself into D&D

@Tanglangfa 6 лет назад

I like the idea of a ranger that hates or at least dislikes his job. It was forced upon him somehow. So when he gets to leave the wilderness, he gets really excited, because now he can finally take a bath, have a home cooked meal, meet women that aren’t hardened woods folk, etc. he likes wearing comfortable clothes, silks etc that aren’t practical in the wild. Not quite a fop, but grateful for luxury.

@AGrumpyPanda 6 лет назад

I once played a fighter based on Mattias Tannhauser from the book, The Religion. TL;DR is he's been a soldier or mercenary in one form or another since before he was a man, fought under more banners than most men know exist, and how he just wants to do what he wants, make money from it and live in luxury. He always insists on paying for his own room, the best food and drink available, and hired a half-dozen NPCs to drive a carriage for him, cook his meals on the road, clean his armour e.t.c. Guy's been through a lot in 20 years of fighting, so now he lives it up.

@StephenLethbridge 6 лет назад

First character I ever lost was Tevis, the Ranger, in the basement of Death House. I was brand new to D&D and went for dueling because I didn't think our party (which also featured a rogue) had enough DPS.

@TheWasteOfTime 6 лет назад

I especially loved the segue regarding cosmic stuff towards the end. When I was a kid we just BARELY scatched the surface of stuff like that. I remember when the Immortals Rules came out I was pumped and wanted to try it, but by then my circle of friends was moving on to other stuff. Yer talk there really reminded me how much I would enjoy some Jim Starlin Warlock-esque settings and some Lovecraftian Old One mindfuckery in a game. However in retrospect that's a really tall order for most DM's.

@justinnolan966 6 лет назад

Witchers are rangers I think. They protect society from monsters and monsters from society. They act as go betweens for creatures of the different spheres.

@brosephnoonan223 6 лет назад

Justin Nolan They don't protect monsters at all though...

@justinnolan966 6 лет назад

Heimskr, Prophet of Talos They protect the sentient monsters and other thinking, feeling ones.

@brosephnoonan223 6 лет назад

Justin Nolan With favored enemies such as Dragons (thinking, feeling creatures), Celestials (thinking, feeling creatures), Fey (thinking, feeling creatures), and Giants (thinking, feeling creatures) I think you'll find the D&D ranger has absolutely nothing to do with protecting their quarry. Especially when they get no social support for said creatures. Its literally just information and skills you use to kill them faster.

@justinnolan966 6 лет назад

Heimskr, Prophet of Talos I was referring to witchers. As for rangers, that's entirely up to the player as to how they use those skills. Tracking isn't exclusively used to kill once you find what you're looking for. Even favored enemies doesn't mean you have to kill every example of a type of creature you find. It's up to the ranger to decide if a creature is going to be hostile to the ranger's civilization or vice versa. After that determination, rangers can still decide to try to work out a pact or settlement between the two instead of exclusively killing. Of course, like everything with dnd it's mostly how it's played.

@brosephnoonan223 6 лет назад

Justin Nolan "Witchers are rangers I think. They protect society from monsters and monsters from society." You clearly were not talking about Witchers. You were talking about rangers BEING Witchers and that's patently false.

@FightingDuskstalker 6 лет назад

I'm currently playing in a tribal setting game, wherein I originally thought we'd be playing leaders of our little community, so I built a really typical Half-Elf Ranger whose mother went hunting in the woods and came back with child after a chance encounter with some mysterious, wild, elf(?) But now my character has taken over as lower-case "h" hunter because his mother is losing her eyesight to age, so he'd be the voice of the simple man with simple desires... then men came and burned my home and killed my family, and I looked at my character and said "well, I think I just accidentally made The Punisher..."

@missivory_missraine 5 лет назад

"Family...family" *triggers the ptsd*

@Matt-md5yt 6 лет назад

the Survivalist is a good Background for a Ranger. also you can be a bounty hunter.

@john-lenin 5 лет назад

There's only overlap because of the ludicrous subclasses.

@ZeriocTheTank 6 лет назад

Is it bad that I've been refreshing RU-vid waiting for this video to pop up since yesterday morning?

@jaredlocke4300 6 лет назад

I have a Half-Elf (Drow) Ranger. I love him. He's a Hunter Archetype providing DPS and back up heals. Great video guys. New subscriber. I look forward to learning more from you guys

@misterkewlaid5420 6 лет назад

One of my favorite characters is ranger that hunts flying whales from the deck of an airship. With spells like zephyr strike, jump, and hunter's mark, he launches himself off the airship to attach lines to the sky-whales. As he picked up the skills he needed to efficiently and effectively track and hunt massive, resilient animals, he picked up all of the ranger skills and spells.

@jamesdinius3621 6 лет назад

Hey! Long time watcher. Rangers are one of my favorite to RP. Currently have a ranger named Amos Steadystream who is essentially a David Attenborough ranger who runs off to study monster behavior.

@fd4chh7 6 лет назад

Great episode. Rangers have been a favorite of mine since I started with AD&D 1st edition so long ago. Just one comment though. Can someone please tell Jim Davis it's not lethal to look into the camera more than twice an episode. It's insane how much effort he seems to put into NOT looking into the camera every episode lol.

@cristotheranger4263 6 лет назад

Ranger was the first class I ever played. I'm glad you guys finally got around to this class. It's still my go to when I want to play a flexible character

@antimonyneamhan9824 3 года назад

Holy crap... I just realized with the underdark being the "border below" opens up a fun possibility of the "border above." Now i want to play a ranger that tracks astronomy and goes to counter Star Spawn and such.

@candiedginger8729 2 года назад

The idea of there being a "border above" fascinates me. I can imagine a ranger multiclass with a shaman or scholar type class would be fun to roleplay with this idea in mind. Thank you for sharing.

@keatonhughes7269 6 лет назад

Every time a WebDM comes out my entire group watches it. Got to be careful to put a hard spin on those character concepts and plot points we get from y'all.

@bazzfromthebackground3696 6 лет назад

19:44 Tarzan is a buff Druid circle of Shepard in my opinion.

@henryquattlebaum4876 6 лет назад

urban ranger is a cop.

@enation5299 6 лет назад

I love the idea of a kobold gloom stalker. :)

@RoboBoddicker 6 лет назад

8:55 Solid Ninja Scroll quote from Jim on the 25th anniversary :D

@styrax6990 6 лет назад

I like the idea of the ranger being a city dweller at heart, but also likes to go big game hunting. All their skills and tricks about the wilderness are taught somewhat academically. You could push it even further and say that they find using their natural tricks demeaning but necessary (its beneath me to cover myself with sticks and mud but I really don't want to be devoured by a T-Rex before the pub crawl on Friday night)

@matthewboland5598 6 лет назад

Rangers are my favorite class!

@undeadclone541 4 года назад

Hey im a goblin ranger :(

@suicaedere7244 6 лет назад

My first campaign character was a Ranger, love this class

@sambro6657 6 лет назад

I wonder what it would be like if I gave my players a decent beast to use I kind of would like it if I gave them a powerful beast early game like a owlbear or a dire wolf or a giant or phase spider I think it could be fun I just wanted to vent this because the basic dog or hawk just feels like I’m underselling the fantastic stuff in this world not that a hawk or dog is bad for a companion

@darkJman77 6 лет назад

Gray Render would be funny. It's a monstrosity but it's lore is it goes around trying to be a pet to an intelligent creature. Give that lvl 3 ranger a CR 12 monster lol

@sambro6657 6 лет назад

Reague of Regends giant spider or phase spider