

The guide that follows uses a color-coding system to rank the abilities granted.

While the options presented here may be the optimal build for a ranger (in my opinion), the beauty of D&D character creation is that the only limit is your imagination so feel free to build your character whichever way you want to. Rangers wield a small amount of divine magic that draws on their bond with nature to enhance their abilities.įollow this guide to discover how to best optimize the skills, weapons, features, and abilities for a D&D 5e Ranger class character build. Rangers can be stalkers in the dark places of a crowded city, guides in brutal mountain passes, and expert monster slayers who know how to exploit the weakness of the most terrible of foes. The classic ranger is a camouflaged archer hiding in the woodlands, but this class offers much more than the classic outlander hunter. They have martial prowess few other classes can match, but also possess an intimate relationship with their environment, using the land as a tool to stalk their quarry, ensnare their prey, and gain an advantage over their foes. Look up bugbear in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.Rangers are a middle ground between Fighters and Druids.

They also appear as monsters, described as large, hairy goblinoids, in the canon of popular fantasy role-playing games. In popular culture īugbears appear in a number of modern fantasy literature and related media, where they are usually minor antagonists. In a modern context, the term bugbear may also mean pet peeve. It was described in this manner in The Buggbears, an adaptation, with additions, from Grazzini’s La Spiritata (‘The Possessed ’, 1561). In medieval England, the bugbear was depicted as a creepy bear that lurked in the woods to scare children. Its name is derived from the Middle English word "bugge" (a frightening thing), or perhaps the Old Welsh word bwg (evil spirit or goblin), or Old Scots bogill (goblin), and has cognates in German bögge or böggel-mann (goblin), and most probably also English "bogeyman" and "bugaboo".
