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Stout Heart
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Posted - 17 Sep 2008 :  01:20:43  Show Profile  Visit Stout Heart's Homepage Send Stout Heart a Private Message  Reply with Quote  Delete Topic
I know there are rangers that specialize in underground ranger skills because A. Drizzt and B in the silver marches book the deep scouts of Citadel Adbar is made up of rangers and rouges. I'm writing about a dwarven ranger and I guess for a lot of it I can use common sense but I have been looking for stats or underground spells. The closet I have come to it is the deepwarden prestige class in races of stone and the cavelord in underdark. What I'm pretty much trying to figure out is are the any major ways in which an underground aka underdark ranges differ from a forest ranger other then terrain? Reading heat signatures in a foot print apposed to looking at bent blade of grass.

Also is the process for rangers gaining companions the same has how a caster gains a familiar?

GoCeraf
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Posted - 17 Sep 2008 :  01:24:45  Show Profile  Visit GoCeraf's Homepage Send GoCeraf a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Rangers getting companions is more akin to the druid gaining a companion. There should be a PHB entry under druid; the ranger's effective druid level when it comes to the animal companion should be half his ranger level.

Edit: Correction

Being sarcastic can be more telling than simply telling.

Edited by - GoCeraf on 17 Sep 2008 01:26:28
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bitter thorn
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Posted - 17 Sep 2008 :  18:37:21  Show Profile  Visit bitter thorn's Homepage Send bitter thorn a Private Message  Reply with Quote
You can find the answer to your animal companion questions here.

http://www.d20srd.org/index.htm

(I love this resource.)

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Originally posted by GoCeraf

Rangers getting companions is more akin to the druid gaining a companion. There should be a PHB entry under druid; the ranger's effective druid level when it comes to the animal companion should be half his ranger level.

Edit: Correction


"Nobody listens to the Ranger!"

Our groups are all sticking with 3.X classic Realms.
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bitter thorn
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Posted - 17 Sep 2008 :  18:42:29  Show Profile  Visit bitter thorn's Homepage Send bitter thorn a Private Message  Reply with Quote
I've always liked this PrC for Rangers. I especially like the mountain and underground versions for Dwarves. I'm currently playing a Shield Dwarf Rogue/Ranger 5/5, and I plan on taking a couple of levels soon.

http://realmshelps.dandello.net/cgi-bin/prestige2.pl?King/Queen_of_the_Wild


"Nobody listens to the Ranger!"

Our groups are all sticking with 3.X classic Realms.

Edited by - bitter thorn on 17 Sep 2008 18:43:06
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bitter thorn
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Posted - 17 Sep 2008 :  23:12:05  Show Profile  Visit bitter thorn's Homepage Send bitter thorn a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Dread Commando is a PrC woth looking at and BoED had some cool stuff for Rangers. The Nemisis Feat is quite cool too.

I'm not sure if this does any thing for you from a writing stand point, but I hope it helps.

"Nobody listens to the Ranger!"

Our groups are all sticking with 3.X classic Realms.
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The Sage
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Posted - 18 Sep 2008 :  01:30:23  Show Profile Send The Sage a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Wow! For a second there I thought that "Dread Commando" read as "Death Commando" -- so it would've been appropriate for a 'House Liao FTW!'

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Stout Heart
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Posted - 18 Sep 2008 :  02:03:44  Show Profile  Visit Stout Heart's Homepage Send Stout Heart a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Thank you for all the assistance Bitter.
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bitter thorn
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Posted - 05 Aug 2009 :  08:04:42  Show Profile  Visit bitter thorn's Homepage Send bitter thorn a Private Message  Reply with Quote
I hope it helped. How is your project going?

"Nobody listens to the Ranger!"

Our groups are all sticking with 3.X classic Realms.
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