I originally put the lizardfolk due to the extra skills and tankiness but now that I think about it, the forest gnome is perfect. You could use minor illusion to hide yourself (Its a 5-foot by 5-foot area) the gnomish cunning feature makes you extremely tanky as you already have strength and dex saving throws. And if you are going down the beastmaster route, then you could either communicate with your sky beast, using it for scouting and surviellence, or ride your land beast, making up for your lower movement speed plus riding around on your bear and wacking people in the shins just puts a smile on my face.
As we have seen there are lots of great races for ranger - so many different ways to be a ranger and so, many racial possibilities. Let’s turn this this around - instead of best race What are the worst races to use?
I put Drow because campaigning in the darkness with a bow is a lot more fun when you can get the most out of your longbow range (and also stay out of sight of your average monster who can see you from about 60ft away with darkvision).
Wood Elf. Of all the major elven subraces, they’re the most in tune with the natural world. And also they’re expert archers. That being said, I’ve never actually played a ranger PC, but I have used an elven ranger as an NPC companion/love interest when I was running the game, and he was able to hold his own and earn his share of XP helping out the party.
Though actually I’ve been told Bugbear works surprisingly well (expertise at stealth and tracking makes them superb hunters).
I mean, Kenku and Water Genasi both got votes, so I don't know that people are all applying the same rubrics to deciding what "best" means. OP also didn't specify in the OP whether Tasha's applied or not, although a subsequent post said it did not, so it's impossible to know how many people assumed Tasha's and how many didn't. I know I voted post-Tasha's originally.
I mean, Kenku and Water Genasi both got votes, so I don't know that people are all applying the same rubrics to deciding what "best" means. OP also didn't specify in the OP whether Tasha's applied or not, although a subsequent post said it did not, so it's impossible to know how many people assumed Tasha's and how many didn't. I know I voted post-Tasha's originally.
1.with wisdom and dexterity are wood elves the best basic rule rangers skill-wise
2.wood elves can camouflage and move fast, useful for rangers
3.fey ancestry and darkvision create great combination with favored enemy and favored terrain
I play a level 1 wood elf myself,I didn’t find back my charactersheet but I am going to seek today or tomorrow.but basically wood elves have all capabilities to allow to specify even stronger into light experienced rangers
I like Owlin for dex ranger (use bow while flying) but it isn't listed. Aarakocra could od it but I don't like the personality they have written for them. Wood elf and variant human (sharpshooter feat) for Dex ranger too.
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Kenku all the way!
As we have seen there are lots of great races for ranger - so many different ways to be a ranger and so, many racial possibilities. Let’s turn this this around - instead of best race What are the worst races to use?
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I put Drow because campaigning in the darkness with a bow is a lot more fun when you can get the most out of your longbow range (and also stay out of sight of your average monster who can see you from about 60ft away with darkvision).
Chilling kinda vibe.
Wood Elf. Of all the major elven subraces, they’re the most in tune with the natural world. And also they’re expert archers. That being said, I’ve never actually played a ranger PC, but I have used an elven ranger as an NPC companion/love interest when I was running the game, and he was able to hold his own and earn his share of XP helping out the party.
Though actually I’ve been told Bugbear works surprisingly well (expertise at stealth and tracking makes them superb hunters).
I say variant human with the cross bow expert feat for an early game damage bussed
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UA Fairy makes a pretty impressive Ranger in my experience. Turns out magical flight + archery fighting style is pretty darn good.
Surprised goblin is so low percentage wise. Likely due to the fact Ranger is generally BA hungry.
I mean, Kenku and Water Genasi both got votes, so I don't know that people are all applying the same rubrics to deciding what "best" means. OP also didn't specify in the OP whether Tasha's applied or not, although a subsequent post said it did not, so it's impossible to know how many people assumed Tasha's and how many didn't. I know I voted post-Tasha's originally.
Fair points.
I would say wood elf, for three reasons:
1.with wisdom and dexterity are wood elves the best basic rule rangers skill-wise
2.wood elves can camouflage and move fast, useful for rangers
3.fey ancestry and darkvision create great combination with favored enemy and favored terrain
I play a level 1 wood elf myself,I didn’t find back my charactersheet but I am going to seek today or tomorrow.but basically wood elves have all capabilities to allow to specify even stronger into light experienced rangers
I like Owlin for dex ranger (use bow while flying) but it isn't listed. Aarakocra could od it but I don't like the personality they have written for them. Wood elf and variant human (sharpshooter feat) for Dex ranger too.
Melee ranger: Bugbear or half orc.
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Sure, wood elf is classic.
But can he fly...?
*aarakocra for the win*
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