Ranger: Terrain Tactics (Optional)
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With The Impermissicon released, we have only one compendium remaining to preview, so we might as well get on with it, right? Today’s preview from Legends of Prestige & Prowess features new optional rules for the ranger class. This final compendium will have a variety of optional class features for most of the basic D&D classes which are intended to help smooth out frustrations and imbalances in core gameplay. For rangers, these optional rules include Terrain Tactics, a class feature designed to help rangers feel a bit more powerful in a thematic and interactive way. It also fulfills the design philosophy of rangers having preferred forms of terrain and environments in which to battle.
The Terrain Tactics class feature is intended to offer only a minor and modest boost to rangers’ power-levels. Along with the optional ranger class features found in the Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything book, this feature should be just enough to equalize the power-levels between the paladin and ranger classes. Each Terrain Tactics option is limited to a single situation and type of attack or defense, preventing them from ever stacking with each other (except in the case of opportunity attacks), which helps retain Bounded Accuracy. The defensive options don’t stack with heavy armor, which makes multiclassing to abuse Terrain Tactics nearly impossible when combined with the Dexterity and Wisdom prerequisites for ranger multiclassing.
There are a few more optional ranger rules coming in Legends of Prestige & Prowess, but the remaining rules and features only impact rangers of 17th level and higher. But while you wait for the release of the final D&D Unleashed compendium, you can still make use of these Terrain Tactics options for all your ranger characters, whether they use official subclasses of one of the D&D Unleashed ranger subclasses!
