2024 Ranger Class Guide for D&D 5e.

[@PartNinja]

Hehe missed edit in the beginning

[@planexshifter]

Thought I had a stroke for minute

[@clarkkent163000]

They done goofed

[@AnaseSkyrider]

It's like an Easter egg to me these days. A look behind the curtain. I'd love to see like 15m of just the in-between takes and how they organize once the camera is rolling.

[@nealenthenerd399]

Good catch!

[@seymourfields3613]

I honestly like the little bloopers they leave in. Especially when Monty starts talking faster than his mouth can move while DMing. It's a reminder we're not perfect, and we all slip up. We too often let perfect stand in the way of good.

[@SoulsNThings]

My favorite part of these videos is hearing you both spitball ideas off each other when it comes to species. Seeing Monty light up when Kelly mentioned the Blue Ox just made my day!

[@pablonieto5058]

I wish they allowed rangers to cast hunters mark without concentration

[@jf_kein_k8590]

Or cast two spells with concentration.

[@verdurite]

​@@jf_kein_k8590 that would be op, but hunters mark + any other spell would be fine

[@KnicKnac]

Or not depend on a spell that doesn't scale well to make using it worth it later on

[@sortehuse]

If I had a Ranger in the group that I DM, I would Homebrew a Magic Item that give Relentless Hunter (Taking damage can’t break your Concentration on Hunter’s Mark) if you don't have it or Hunters mark without Concentration if you have Relentless Hunter ... of course only if the Player used Hunters mark.

[@Snow_Econ]

You're almost always better off attacking with your bonus action rather than casting HM anyway or using your concentration on a better spell. Having so many features reliant on HM is what makes the 2024 ranger kinda suck. The build tries forcing you to use something that is rarely the best use of resources.

[@bernatgarcia6348]

At my table the homebrew I do with the ranger is: You can concentrate in two spells as long as one of them is Hunter's Mark. That way HM concentration can still be broken at lower levels, you still benefit from the 13th level feature, and don't have to choose between HM and another concentration spell.

[@DrgnDrake]

I've heard this suggested fix before and I think it's fantastic. I'd probably add it as a lvl 5 feature (so you get it the same time as lvl 2 spells which have some nice concentration spells) Honestly, I think I'd also allow Rangers to mark a new foe as part of their attack action instead of needing a bonus action to move it. A vengeance pally can move their enmity with no action, so I don't see why a Ranger can't move their hunter's mark the same. Makes that initial bonus action cost hurt a lot less.

[@Aichi1138]

Just drop the need for concentration past level 7. At that point of a ranger is tracking you, You aren't getting away from them

[@DrgnDrake]

@@Aichi1138 if you check the comments in the subclass tier ranking video we talk about this a lot more.

[@DaMuss-e2w]

What did you do for the awful capstone? lol, changing a d6 to a d10 is a slap in the face!! 🤣🤣

[@thebronzemanticore]

Oh no, 4 more damage, how will my monsters ever recover...

[@manfredhase2289]

John Rambo as the soldier who has learned to survive in the wilderness and has problems with the civilization he returns to pops right into my head. Especially as in “First Blood”... Which, by the way, is quite simply a great movie. Under the impression of the sequels, I never thought of him as a Ranger but as an Fighter of some kind. But the First Blood Rambo is definetly a Ranger to me now. Thanx for the inspiration, dudes!

[@ericpeterson8732]

And he was an Army Ranger, so it works!

[@j5joker9]

I made a ranger recently that was heavily inspired by Indiana Jones. He duel wielded a whip in his main hand and a pistol in the other. I chose Hunter subclass since he hunts down ancient artifacts and his background was scribe cause I made him a professor at a university who goes treasure hunting in between semesters. I thought it was really cool how he kind of ended up as a skill monkey since he was also human with the skilled property.

[@Ben-Mei_EnjoysLife]

I’m

[@H4LFsanity]

My first Ranger used Shield Expert to take no damage from a Meteor Swarm. Think Wonder Woman with the mortar, which was fitting because the character was modeled as an Amazon warrior to begin with. My second Ranger rides a wolf around because of the excellent fact that the Primal Companion act at the same time as the Ranger. It started as a Twilight Princess reference, but they've actually been very fun. Neither has ever cast Hunter's Mark.

[@chrisg8989]

15:08 Dont forget Magic Stone + Sling! This coupled with Shillelagh Quarterstaff + Shield, is an amazing way to build a Wisdom based Ranger!

[@logancuster8035]

For real though, the Wisdom Beast Master who summons looks really good.

[@RokuroCarisu]

Magic Stone has a range of 60 feet, a sling only 30 feet. Unless you have Sharpshooter, you're better off just throwing the stones.

[@maybevoldemort8995]

Magic stone has repeated bonus action requirements on top of beast master and hunter’s mark. I like magic stone but I think it’d be a tough sell with beast master.

[@chrisg8989]

@maybevoldemort8995 I wouldn't use it with Beast Master. Fey Wanderer is better.

[@FarothFuin]

Feywandwrer with shillellagh is a solid onestatbuild

[@Thummpur26]

Love the content gents! Keep it up. As a relatively new player you guys are my absolute favorite content creators

[@chaise928]

Immediately unpicked a childhood memory! David the gnome riding on a primal fox named Swift firing a bow. This will have to be my next character for sure

[@douglaspope-gz1eq]

Yet again I was watching the Drakkenhiem series when this video dropped currently on episode 75 season 3 I'm almost caught up with the series and it's been a blast a little sad it will come to an end soon I do hope I can get caught up before the series ends thanks for the amazing ride through the world of Drakkenhiem Dungeon dudes

[@beowulf2715]

To summarize if you wanna be the most effective damage ranger, don’t use hunters mark, even though it’s like the core of like all your abilities.

[@FarothFuin]

Which is why wotc kinda ruined it, they improve the thing people usee because the rest was kinda bad instead of improbing the 'bad stuff' and now is a combination of 'could be good but no' and 'you can only use HM build because if dont, you are a halfclass'

[@andremedaglia350]

It works pretty well with the dual wielding build... +4d6 per turn is a big deal

[@quillogist2875]

My 10th level beast master ranger gets a lot of use of it. I dual wield light weapons and get 4 attacks a round. Do I ever run into concentration issues? Yes, but so do other classes. I'm very happy with the class and subclass. Others may have had other experiences.

[@beowulf2715]

@@quillogist2875 Was not saying its bad, just not the most effective damage dealing. I still love the class just wish I had features that improved the class with out restrictions. I tend to play more range and don't get as much out of it.

[@beowulf2715]

@@andremedaglia350 You’re not wrong I’m not gonna deny that but I tend to play more range build not dual wielding and if you have a DM like mine, you’re not usually fighting one really big thing you’re fighting multiple things so you’re kind of stuck having to move that hunters mark around a lot.

[@sacredopportunities]

Can't wait for sorcerer!

[@randyrandy2460]

I really wish their cool stuff came online sooner (like the aberrant slug form all the way at 14th lvl)

[@AAron-gr3jk]

I feel like the sorcerer was re-defines between 3e and 5e. In 3 e the wizard was the flexible and the sorcerer was the blaster. In the warlock is the blaster and the sorcerer becomes more flexible

[@weirdo1060]

I’m still a gloomstalker ranger fan. While dread ambusher changed from 2014 to 2024, it still has potential. We players can still multiclass since monk and rogue mutually align based on dexterity.

[@erikwilliams1562]

Ranger: aka "talk to your DM about it first"

[@nealenthenerd399]

Easily my favorite class

[@miovarelacastro9188]

How??

[@nealenthenerd399]

@@miovarelacastro9188Access to most weapons and Armors, a d10 hit dice, extra mobility with the climbing and swim spelled and +10 speed, spell casting, starting with extra skills and languages than a good chunk of other classes, and 3 Expertises in skills. Plus with the new Hunter’s Mark upgrade it turned a spell I almost always got into way less taxing on my builds with free castings and auto prepared. It’s also uses my favorite stat spread of Dexterity and Wisdom. Overall I really like the Ranger and the changes done to it!

[@nealenthenerd399]

@@miovarelacastro9188it has a lot of goodies to mess with. Spellcasting, Martial combat, mobility, extra Languages and extra Skills and 3 Expertise. Plus I’ve always used Hunter’s Mark so with the new update it is way less taxing on my builds and even gets upgrades! Overall I enjoy it as it plays a little of Jack of All Trades but a Master of none. Basically I can play as backup for a lot of roles in the party at all times. This is of course all Before taking subclasses into account

[@nealenthenerd399]

@@miovarelacastro9188odd. My replies seem to be disappearing whenever I explain what I like about it.

[@nealenthenerd399]

⁠it has a lot fun things to do overall. I would try to explain more but my comments keep getting deleted it seems.

[@thelastowlbear8110]

The Fey Wanderer can actually be a bit of a powerhouse if built towards skills. Having your Wisdom overlap with Charisma means that the following skills are all essentially Wisdom skills: Animal Handling, Insight, Medicine, Perception, Survival, Deception, Intimidation, Performance, and Persuasion. Add to that the Dexterity skills that you're going to be good at due to being a Ranger and wanting Dex, you're going to be good a pretty much every impactful skill besides Investigation. You'll start with 5 impactful skill trainings (probably 6 based on species or up to 8-9 if taking the Skilled Origin Feat), gain an Expertise at 2, and gain an extra one at Level 3 from Fey Wanderer. At 4 or 8 you can get a second expertise with a feat if you want and then at 9 gain two more expertise. This gives you almost as many expertise and skills as a Rogue, while allowing you to triple-up on Dex, Wis, and Cha abilities where a Rogue usually has to pick only one of Int, Wis, or Cha after Dex. The only thing the a Fey Wanderer is missing is the Rogue's Reliable Talent which is insanely strong. After you hit 9th level with the Fey Wanderer you might also want to venture into Rogue or Fighter for more skill potency. Rogue gives more expertise and some backstab. While Battlemaster Fighter gives more durability, the ability to add Second Wind to all skill, the ability to add superiority dice to key selected skills, a second fighting style for versatility, a third weapon mastery (oh, to have mastery in a ranged weapon and two melee weapons, the Ranger's dream), and just straight up Action Surge. If going to 16th level, the Rogue multiclass is probably better because you get the aforementioned Reliable Talent. But from 11-15th level, the Fey Wanderer/Battlemaster seems like a skills powerhouse with lots of durability and flexibility.

[@JoeStoryteller]

thanks for the video! Im going to share this with one of my new players who is playing a ranger in our Spelljammer campaign, he's flavoring it as a space ranger/cowboy similar to Spike in Cowboy Beebop. I jumped on the codex of combined magic looks awesome!

[@DungeonDudes]

That's a great idea for a character. Glad the guide was helpful!

[@xiongray]

STRangers are pretty cool too

[@Trauma284]

Glad someone else said it. The two weapon ranger in my game is STR.

[@BlackShardStudio]

People are strange...

[@jadenlindeman3806]

40:00 My favorite ranger I ever made was a leopard tabaxi named Tapio. He had one green eye and one blue eye. His companion was an actual leopard he named Mielikki who had eyes opposite his. Look up the names of you get a moment. I had the idea and they just fell into place :)

[@andrew2976]

The dwarven ranger with a heavy crossbow always conjures images of Bardin Goreksson in Warhammer Vermintide II for me. So badass.

[@KnicKnac]

Or Varric from Dragon Age.

[@karatekoala4270]

17:56 when the player for 2024 came out, we were starting a new icewind Dale campaign. My ranger using the new rules was an orc str based beast master with an owlbear. Then the DM have me the Woodcutters axe... The rest is what Tall Tales are made of

[@nathans9764]

An archer beastmaster with the flying companion is great, but a dual wielder with beast of the land is pretty awesome too. Beast of the land can knock enemies prone, giving you advantage, and you can dual wield without a feat for 3 attacks at level 3, 4 at level 5, and 5 at level 11. More attacks to trigger additional hunter's mark damage.

[@andremedaglia350]

How would you do 5 attacks?

[@nathans9764]

@andremedaglia350 level 3 - main hand, nick, pet. Level 5 - main hand, extra attack, nick, pet Level 11 - main hand, extra attack, nick, pet x 2. At level 11, your pet's first hit benefits from hunter's mark.

[@quillogist2875]

That is my build. We just went to 11th level, and I can't wait to do the 5 attacks.

[@DaMuss-e2w]

@@nathans9764 only problem is when the current target goes down then you have to decide to have your pet attack next round or you apply hunters mark. Also what happens when you want to use something like spike growth which is an awesome spell, or woodland beings?

[@nathans9764]

@@DaMuss-e2w action economy can be a struggle for sure, but once you hit 11th level, it's generally worth it to give up one of your own attacks to give your pet 2.

[@DirkTheReunification]

As a fellow Millennial, I'm here for Kelly's Nu Metal era.

[@weswtf]

Bow rangers always attacking at disadvantage bc the melee party members keep using the topple property

[@user-wm3hu7lo1g]

If your melee players don't leave a standing target for you to shoot, time to find new players

[@Trauma284]

​@@user-wm3hu7lo1gooor. Communicate.

[@paulwillauer8843]

Yeah I had that issue recently with a rogue at my table. Funny conversation of the rogue basically saying “ hey guys I need all 3 of you melee people to stop giving yourself advantage because as a rogue I become literally useless without advantage. So please handicap yourselves.” That conversation didn’t really go great for obvious reasons. So the rogue is now playing melee rogue.

[@Trauma284]

@@paulwillauer8843 that's sad.

[@paulwillauer8843]

@ sadly as the DM I really didn’t have any advice. It’s hard because my paladin and fighter are both super happy about having easy advantage thanks to prone, and the warlock is going blade so he is happy as well, but it screws the rogue. I usually just had plenty of enemies that way there is always someone the rogue could still shoot that wasn’t prone but in boss fights or fights with just a couple enemies the rogue was useless for damage. It is an inherent issue with rogue, without sneak attack they have the same damage as a level 1 fighter basically. The issue is that disadvantage has become more common. I also use a fair amount of spellcasters, but if I use Blur, or invisibility or greater invisibility, or god forbid I fear the rogue I as the DM feel bad because now the rogue is basically useless in the fight even as melee. I basically just gave him a borderline broken weapon so that he can still feel relevant. It’s not hard to solve but he said he hated the fact I had to give him what he considered a Deux ex Machina weapon just to match the rest of the party who don’t have anything better than a single flametongue right now. If you have a solution I would love to hear it. Asking the paladin and fighter to handicap themselves is ridiculous, but the only thing I can think of is that ranged rogue can only really function in a party that never uses topple or other prone abilities which is kind of restrictive. Ranger playing at range is not much better, without sharp shooter or gloom stalker bonus attack it is just kind of bad damage wise. Everyone talks about duel wielding and yeah that’s great, but damn did archers get screwed in this. Even worse when warlock wants to use stuff like darkness and Hadar, because he and paladin can see in magic darkness thanks to item and invocation, and fighter will just let the role be neutral since once prone advantage and disadvantage cancel out, but again rogue is screwed. It sucks because we have all played together before for a while and have great chemistry with people wanting to use combos but rogue especially is super limiting in that regard. Ranger at least gets permanent advantage on HM target eventually so at least prone won’t effect them at range I guess.

[@nealenthenerd399]

The Orc Ranger sounds so fun as a Strength Build! Gonna try that my next campaign!

[@HyperEwok1]

I was literally just thinking 'when they gonna do rangers, I've got a new campaign coming up soon'

[@brandoncurtis1636]

As someone who did it for years, you’re better off playing the 2014 Ranger with the Tasha’s optional features for basically every style of play/ subclass. I promise you it’s better, and you don’t NEED to take Hunter’s Mark to feel good in combat.

[@verdurite]

Play a fighter/druid instead

[@glizzygalaxy5407]

I don't know when Kelly got a tattoo, but it looks very well done so far

[@DungeonDudes]

Thank you.

[@BalthorTheRed]

Fey Wanderer's level 7 Beguiling Twist doesn't specify ally/enemy, and does not have a limitation on uses per rest. As long as anyone, friend or foe, saves against charm/frighten while your reaction is available, you can attempt to charm/frighten a different creature. If they/anyone else later saves against charm/frighten while your reaction is available, you can attempt to charm/frighten someone else with it. No limit on uses per day. Exploitable? Perhaps worth getting access to Cause Fear (Shadow Touched, Magic Initiate) to not rely on someone else starting a frighten chain?

[@nathans9764]

@@BalthorTheRed Better still, you get summon fey as a fey wanderer. The mirthful fey can cast a charm as a bonus action every single turn. On a spell that lasts an hour.

[@ミミッキュ-q9t]

In 5e there is 1 Lvl Dip for Fey Wanderer into Warlock to get dread form and abuse this feature. Very good in midgame

[@nuadai]

I played an Ascendant Dragon Monk in a short adventure this summer. If there's ever an opportunity to play this character again, I've decided to refashion him as an Elements Monk (5) + Hunter Ranger (3). Mechanically, it's a combo that I really like, because you can see the weaknesses of your enemies and exploit them with the different types of damage of your attacks. But just based on how that 1st adventure went, I actually also got a pretty good story reason to go this way.

[@mac_sour]

but also getting higher level in both is great mobility wise too. with monk movement and slowfall combined with ANOTHER +10 and a climb/swim speed? you're absolutely zooming whether its horizontal or vertical, no matter the terrain

[@matthewhelmers1426]

You mentioned the cheese grater build and that got me to thinking about warlock familiar. You can line up the familiar to shoot eldrich blast and have a second angle to push enemies into the AOE. I'd call it the "pool cue" build.

[@nathans9764]

@@matthewhelmers1426 unless I'm missing something in the warlock invocations, your familiar can't use eldritch blast, only touch spells.

[@AStarInAndromeda]

@@nathans9764they can with the Gaze of Two Minds invocation

[@matthewhelmers1426]

@nathans9764 it would require Gaze of Two Minds.

[@nathans9764]

@@matthewhelmers1426 Oh, wow. I did not realize how much that one changed. 2014 gaze of two minds was not very useful.

[@matthewhelmers1426]

@nathans9764 if you pair it with a flying and invisible familiar, it has amazing potential!

[@Ghostychief91]

Literally, my first character I ever made in WoW back in the vanilla days was a Dwarf Hunter. Thank you, you just gave me the inspo for my next character!

[@andremedaglia350]

A wisdom ranger with shillelagh, a shield and a cassowary companion sounds pretty amazing 👀

[@seymourfields3613]

Big game hunter? Conservationist? Maybe carry a big shillelagh? Theodore the Bugbear. Bully!

[@neoman4426]

An interesting interaction with Gloom Stalker, RAW Umbral Sight makes you invisible to yourself when that bit is active. Which can have interactions with certain spells like if you pick up Healing Word for instance through some means (as the first example I can think of that both requires sight and you'd want to cast on yourself) strict RAW you can't use it to heal yourself if you're in darkness.

[@jeffreyjay2899]

I would rule that you can still cast spells on yourself in that situation.

[@neoman4426]

@jeffreyjay2899 as would pretty much any sane DM, but that's technically the RAW

[@guamae]

"20th level feature may not sound like much, but for one specific build, it does more... Which still isn't much" 😝 Particularly because Hunters Mark and Dual Wielding will compete for your Bonus Action 😩

[@DaMuss-e2w]

1-4 extra damage for a level 20 capstone on a spell you probably only ever use when you run out of everything else, Woodland beings is better for Melee Ranger. Swift Quiver is better for ranged ranger.

[@andyrandall6474]

I don't know if anyone else mentioned this, but I think a lot of folks miss this about the Fey Wanderer's dreadful strikes features isn't limited to once per turn, it's limited to once per creature. So if you were to attach several different creatures it would proc multiple times. I think that, coupled with it being psychic damage, is a reason for the smaller damage die perhaps.

[@buyucukbuyu8901]

I know many campaigns don’t reach level 20, but we don’t get any exceptional upgrades (those ones are still good but meh) after level 17. So, dipping 3 levels into another class (or even stopping at level 15, once we unlock the last subclass feature) might be a better idea. While some classes have amazing level 20 features that are hard to ignore, for me, Ranger isn’t one of them.

[@DaMuss-e2w]

too many class abilities based around a decent at level 1 spell that does not scale well and is CONCENTRATION, only go to 15 in ranger if your subclass has something awesome in it, probably better to dip out of ranger earlier, or just skip it and play a fighter, fighter/druid or a monk.

[@stephancardenas-navarro127]

With Gloom Stalker or Hunter subclasses, I can see a character like the movie Predator and the hunter's mark being some laser or infrared lens. Where I struggle is to use a race that thematically fills the boxes similar to the Yautjas, maybe a Dragonborn to resemble some lizard or even a Gith with dreads while using a claw for close combat.

[@KelticPhoenix]

When you were talking about species, I was shocked that you didn’t mention Dwarven Gloomstalker.

[@Cryodrake]

*insert taking an even deeper draw from a cigarette meme here* o boy, let's see how they work this one out.

[@sidwilliams42069]

Currently building a halfling beastmaster ranger. She grew up on a ranch with a pet cow who she was given to raise from infancy. After it reached adulthood, father slaughtered the cow to teach her about life and death and that this is where food comes from, like how farmers do. But then the cow was ressurected through the power of their bond (horse girl movie vibes) and then the cow promptly gored the girl's father as revenge. I have a passion for playing as sweet young girls that start off on their adventures because a dangerous magical being loves the girl with all their heart

[@S3004-k7e]

They didnt seem to be enthused as the other classes, I wonder why?

[@ToxicTaxonJunior]

Keep in mind, "You can also sacrifice one of your attacks when you take the Attack action to command the beast to take the Beast’s Strike action", so you don't actually need to use your bonus action to command the beast to attack. Dual-wielding builds with Nick mastery can get a lot of mileage out of this.

[@JJones-g2f]

While true, the 7th-level Exceptional Training feature gives your companion its own bonus action if you use your bonus action to command it to attack. The options are disengage, dash, and DODGE. That's right, Dodge as a bonus action! This single change makes your normally vulnerable companion massively more survivable. It can hang in the frontline as an actual tank now. But only if you give up your bonus action.

[@phasestar7787]

Good guide and love the rp questions!

[@alkiviadise.halkiotis8703]

As per the PHB2024 wording on heavy weapons, you could get the Great Weapon Master feat as it would affect Long Bows and Heavy Crossbows for some beefy ranged damage. As such, the stat distribution would change as you would need 13 STR for the feat prerequisite. I would say something like 13(12+1)STR, 17(15+2)DEX, 14CON, 8INT, 14WIS, 8CHA.

[@jeffreyjay2899]

Steel Wind Strike is awesome for a big moment! It's a great spell for any melee character and I love it on a Bladesinger!

[@seymourfields3613]

I... I didn't know Canada had Paul Bunyon. 😂

[@Gipziy]

Cant wait for the subclass tier rankings

[@andremedaglia350]

Ranger casting spike growth, shooting from a distance, with his flying beast companion was litteraly my first build in BG3

[@RonaldCampian]

My level 5 gloom Stalker is in an urban setting (At dooms Gate). He started out as a Bug Bear & was resurrected as a Firbolg. Having studied the culinary arts for a over year I am trying to talk the DM into granting the Chef feat which gives the party a small amout of Temp HP and Any creatures who eats my food on a short rest and uses a hit die to heal gain an additional 1d8 of healing...not much but is a hell of a lot of fun to role play. My signature dish is rat/cat stew.. Playing a ranger in an uban setting is easier than I thought it woud be.

[@JABO95SA]

I love the unedited repeats 🤭

[@BiggestGal]

I suppose this new ranger can be good but they really stripped it down to Hunter's Mark: The Class.

[@ericpeterson8732]

I don't understand this criticism. HM has been the hallmark spell for Rangers since 2014. Every Ranger I have seen played, including my own, has used it. This is like complaining about Detect Magic or Eldritch Blast. 2024 makes that easier now by always being prepared and getting some castings. So if you decide to drop Hunter's Mark to cast a better concentration spell, you will have another casting when your concentration breaks. Are there really so many Rangers that avoid HM? People want everything. You guys wouldn't have liked Rangers in 2nd edition.

[@verdurite]

​@@ericpeterson8732 we aren't playing 2nd edition tho? Ranger sucks NOW

[@KnicKnac]

I preferred Favored Foe from Tasha's. It scaled and was an option to tack onto a hit. Opened up choices for other spells.

[@BiggestGal]

@@ericpeterson8732 The problem isn't that Rangers have HM, the problem is that HM is literally the only thing rangers have going for them beyond subclass features. The base class is so sauceless compared to other classes.

[@valerius88]

26:35 I was fully ready for you to say, "Playing with that is a pathway to an amount of damage that some would consider...unnatural."

[@gearsofdawn]

My first 2024 rules character is a black dragonborn ranger artisan. His family of artisans raised him to help with their different businesses, and he started going out into the wild to gather resources for them. He has proficiency with Leatherworker's, Smith's, and Woodcarver's tools and for ranger flavor he has cartographer's tools as well to sell maps of the area to adventurers. He's currently just starting out at lvl 1 in our phandelver and below campaign, but at lvl 4 I'm going to take skilled and get arcana proficiency so I can start making magic items. I think I'll make a wand of cure wounds, then maybe a bow with ensnaring strike or hail of thorns.

[@laughingqrow6831]

one of my complaints about specifically Ranger is that all other martial classes gain an additional class trait with extra attack (even paladin which is also a half caster). I feel that they aren't even better than other classes at using hunter's mark, if they use a feat. fey touch gaining Hunter's Mark ( at least until level 13) and I feel that the level 17 ability isn't impressive enough because of the pure amount of options that give you advantage, especially when most campaigns don't even last that long.

[@niklaskamin6961]

Didn't have the best experience using summon beast/fey as a ranger, which is sad because it fits so well with the class fantasy. The beast performed decently at Level 5 but quickly became too frail to survive even a single round of combat most of the time. Summon fey has better AC but the same low base hp despite costing a higher spell slot. So since I couldn't keep them alive I would deal less damage overall if I wasted a turn summoning them as they would often only get to attack once before dying.

[@KnicKnac]

Ranger has been my favorite since 3.5 days. I nixed the animal companion for the PHB 2 feature. I enjoy the mix of features and skills. Definitely a fan of the archer playstyle. I don't like the extra bookwork in dealing with a secondary HP pool. It can be a bit much during stressful combats.

[@winterslastrose]

The fits fellas 😎

[@DungeonDudes]

😎

[@dustinmiller9094]

Ranger Class Features Fix Level 9: - Add Relentless Hunter here; change language to: “When you cast Hunter’s Mark with a use of Favored Foe, it no longer requires concentration for that casting.” - Keep Expertise Level 13: - Add Precise Hunter here Level 17: - Add new feature, Apex Predator. Language: “The damage dice of your Hunter’s Mark increases to 2d6, rather than 1d6. It also no longer requires a Bonus Action to move the mark to a new creature.” Level 20: - Change Foe Slayer language to: You add your Wisdom modifier to the attack roll and damage roll of an attack you make against the creature currently marked by your Hunter’s Mark.

[@TheOneAverageJoe]

this could fix it I have no idea why they did it the way they did

[@iLitTheSun]

And I’d add this rider to Favored Foe at level 1: When you roll initiative, you can cast Hunter’s Mark in this way as part of your initiative roll before the start of your turn.

[@FarothFuin]

Dont like the lv17 feature because you can use a ranger with shillellagh and magic stine, which is already using wisdom to attack and stats can double-stack in raw, which is why i hated that feature Want an actually 'foe slayer' feature that is a lv17 feature? Foe slayer At lv17, Whenever you hit a cresture marked with HM, you can transform the hit into a critical hut for damage purposses. You cannot use this feature more than once per turn and can use it a number of times equal to your wisdom modifier before needing a long rest There, now is an actual lv17 feature, and if somebody says 'its too strong 🥴" i will remember them that at that level the spellcasters can bend reality and summon literal demins and meteors and destroy cities, so dealing double damage once per turn in one attack isnt gonna break the game

[@TheOneAverageJoe]

@@FarothFuin that's horrible for balance getting a free autocrit every turn that's literally one of the epic boons no shot they would ever do that

[@TheOneAverageJoe]

@@FarothFuin and I don't care what the spellcasters are doing it's irrelevant what about isms

[@justinchrstnsn]

Great video

[@freemanvosburg4542]

My first ever D&D character was a dwarf ranger. Redd still holds a special place in my heart, and I might have to bring him back for this new edition...

[@odinforce29]

Can't wait to see how we can play Hunters Mark 🫠

[@chrisjones6002]

I'm really liking a lizardfolk druid I play now. I could definitely see my first 2024 character being a LF beast master ranger.

[@jeffreyjay2899]

Ranger has traditionally been seen as weak in 5e and The Gloomstalker has been the solution to this or standout. I think conceptually Ranger is a very good idea, but the features are not strong and I think the class could use even more ribbon features and out of combat features for role playing personally.

[@johnalford6964]

40:45 I think the obvious choice for Beastmaster is a black tiger, an eagle, and two ferrets. IYKYK

[@ganjiblobflankis6581]

I took a shot every time they said "Iconic" now I am in intensive care.

[@Zorkman95]

This is an interesting change, but deft explorer is actually the ONLY way to have an exotic language in the 2024 players handbook. On one hand, I like that characters dont randomly know infernal because "I needed to pick another language." On the other hand, I think there should be a couple other ways to learn rare languages. I'm sure a lot of dms will not notice this change or ignore it. I think most dms will allow certain characters to know them or let it be a downtime activity because it's a little dumb there's no "rules as written" way for a Tiefling Warlock with a Devilish patron to know infernal besides taking ranger levels. Please correct me if anyone finds a rule I missed.

[@badmojo0777]

Eladrin Fey Wanderer, NUFF SAID!! i also like the Goblin Gloomstalker in the Underdark with a serious case of short man sydrom, overcompensation :D tough guy

[@goldenknight339]

If you ever plan on looking and reviewing more 3rd party content, i reccomend looking into Nat19's Somnus Domina content! they recently released their setting guide "Lyre's guide to Retia" with the follow up book "Risk & Reward" DM book It has 4 original classes, their own version of Ranger (reason why i make this comment), magic items, monsters, and mechs.... and mechanics for piloting them

[@westonepstein]

On the subject of non heroic rangers I present to you Prince Humperdink. "May I live a thousand years and never hunt again." His tracking skills were off the hook too.

[@Subject_Keter]

I like how ranger like "can we go to Warlock"

[@Rmedina126st]

Have they ever done a video like this for the Drakenhiem ranger subclasses?

[@larrediogo]

Hey, honest question, during the video i thought about this: How would the damage of a ranger who cast hunter's mark as a bonus action without spending a spell slot and in his action, cast magic missiles be calculated? 1D4 + 1D6 + 1 for each missile? I had never actually thought of that, not even in previous versions... this kind of idea opens the door for a really fun wizard/ranger multiclass. There are many damage spells witth multihit and this souds very fun.

[@MartialNico]

Aragorn, Legolas, Lara Croft, Katniss Everdeen, or others like Geralt of Rivia or Link from Zelda are all quintessential rangers. Yet, *none* of them have an animal companion. I don't understand this fixation with putting the Beastmaster in Ranger, and especially not those saying the Beast should be part of the main class. It just isn't there.

[@Franco1395]

Drizzt had that panther. I kinda remember it being a figurine though. Correct me if I’m misremembering

[@armphidiic2609]

Drizzr is exactly why, though he wouldn't be a Beastmaster Ranger.

[@Melianedeluxe]

While I agree that being a ranger doesn’t necessarily mean having an animal companion, I don’t see the problem of having the beast master as a ranger subclass. DnD is set in its own universe , I don’t see why they would have to follow the same ranger archetypes, especially when half of these characters didn’t even exist when the ranger was introduced in DnD. Having a whole class for beast master seems cumbersome too…

[@Wintermute909]

Yeah it seems the Drizzt influence overpowered all of those archetypes. Also his dual wielding overpowered the bow archetype. While I like Drizzt, it's a bit odd that a single, modern, fictional character outweighed millennia old mythology.

[@nealenthenerd399]

@@Wintermute909It likely is because he is the most popular D&D character in terms of novels. He did get a 39 book series

[@jaredlocke4300]

I have a friend in the Curse of Strahd campaign I'm running who is a wisdom based beast master. He relies on the beast companion and his attacks are either shillileagh or thorn whip

[@ordatexisna6636]

I'm surprised I don't see many people looking at using hvy xbow and long bow mastery with beast master. All things optimal without using a spell you can reduce a standard 30 move creature to 20 movement if they take a dash. (30 - 10 movement long bow) 20 movement, prone from beast, 10 to stand back up, push from heavy, -10 position, if they take dash they only get 20.

[@Grorl]

Small race Wis based beast master still best ranger!

[@Ashwgun]

I am playing a Dragonborn Ranger, as a Drake Warden, just got my drake, he is great

[@RokuroCarisu]

One for my favorite characters is a Drakewarden Ranger; a retired magic school teacher who now takes care of a "sacred" duck pond, and his companion is a male duck. 😁

[@umpatte0]

Conceptually, i like the idea of a ranger or druid with expeetise in knowledge nature, despite them hating nature. They can tell you in precise detail what all sucks about leaving the city and goingbinto the wilderness

[@HorizonOfHope]

The new ranger is the class that asks: “What if you wanted to cast hunter’s mark and nothing else?”

[@amandakarr6193]

I love Tasha's cantrip ranger with a cleric mage adept feat.

[@ChoseeComprende]

I want to play Rexxar from Warcraft ... Dual Wield axes with Bear Companion. :3

[@isaacgraff8288]

I am wanting to do an Orc Ranger. Play up a 'rancher' theme/vibe

[@geoffreyperrin4347]

I actually really want to find a way to make a great axe heavy armor ranger work. I was thinking horizon Walker and make them more of a nature knight kind of thing. Horizon Walker has a nice damage boost but requires constant bonus action use

[@camusreviews6877]

A perfect example of a ranger funny enough is Daryl Dixon from the walking dead. Crossbow wielder who also uses knives sometimes, skilled hunter/tracker, and he even gets a dog as his companion

[@clarkside4493]

Holy crap, I never thought of Laura Croft as a Ranger, but I'll be darned if she doesn't make a good one.

[@ratherfungames]

20:00 why shortbow? Cheaper?

[@Grorl]

Hex mastery, methinks?

[@majinsole8554]

Was not expecting how to build Paul Bunyon in a Dungeon Dudes Ranger synopsis video, but man was I hear for it 😆 ~_~

[@MinhDuong-lg7uk]

I am currently playing a swarmkeeper ranger using the 2014 ruleset. The Ranger himself is a malfunctioning warforged entity piloted by the fairy like "swarm". Think of the SDF from Robotech.

[@bricksmithforger997]

Druidic warrior with Shillelagh on a club as a halfling with beast of the land is what I’m currently playing and it’s a power build my two main ability scores are wisdom and constitution

[@jeffreyjay2899]

Some Rangers were raised in the wild, by someone or something, and as an alternative origin the military is a great example. Some people have to survive the unsettled wilderness as outcasts or a diaspora or settlers and they develop their skills in a variety of circumstances. Really, a Ranger can have many different origins and some could be unlikely or unique.

[@amandakarr6193]

So might be fun to toll the dead with collosis slayer & hunters mark.

[@Theplat55]

I’ve been playing a Druid for about 2 years now and I role play him as Deku from My Hero Academia. I definitely like the new changes made to Ranger

[@wvchemteach]

My homebrew is that the free-castings of Hunter's Mark scale with Ranger levels not character level and is concentration free starting Ranger level 7 only on the free-castings.

[@davidotoole2853]

26:55 currently playing a cheese grater Sea Druid where the 4/6 of the party are fullcasters with access to thunderwave or some other kind of movement shenanigans. We're all going to be playing spikeball with our enemies.

[@bensortman9621]

Quartermain. From league of extraordinary gentlemen would be a ranger

[@matthewmuir8884]

Yes, he would. Just a quick clarification: Quartermain originates from the novel King Solomon's Mines, as all the characters in that team originated from Victorian Literature.

[@joselocombi6127]

Orc ranger with absurdly big and heavy crossbone made of bones is how I immagine the Green guy archetype, though, definitely a Hunter, I can see him saying:" bows give you the false sicurity of having more then one shot while crossbow are so slow to recharge that you will be alredy dead if you try to do so in the hunt. The reality of the hunt is much more raw, against beast such as bears you only have one shot, make it worth" and then proceed to eat dirt to see if his on the right track

[@rekcroom]

I want to make a Beast Master with a bear companion. The thing is that I needed it to be a sea or sky beast, I would make it transform into that. Specifically they transform neck down. That way I can have a bear with a bird body or a fish body or something like that lol.

[@broomemike1]

Just want to throw a literature reference out there. In the Shannara series of books, dwarves are well known as the ultimate tenders of nature.