How a Ranger Chooses their Favored Enemy
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Can we agree that Flint has already earned a special place just like our three dum dums and deserve a plushie?
Flint is a dwarf, though.
@@thomasbecker9676 P sure he's a half-elf
@@MemoristCed Nope, Tanis is a half-elf; Flint is a dwarf.
@@thomasbecker9676 Ah, right, you're that guy who doesn't know that 5e has lore and rules. Never mind.
@@MemoristCed You've never heard of Dragonlance, have it? It existed long before 5e. It's responsible for much of the lore of D&D. But you're a 5e-kiddie; of course you refuse to believe you're not original.
That is why I like Favored Foe optional rule from Tasha. You can say "Fuck this particular person" and you focus on your hate so much you deal them additional dmg for a minute
I hate everyone equally. At least for 1 minute.
I prefer the classic one because is pretty much more charming.
@@marcosantonio-hj7vp more charming to be racist?._.
Isn't that barbarian rage?
@@mr.grimjoyNot a single more charming thing in the world
The ultimate ranger power: hyper specific racism
Not to be confused with the Ultimate Power Rangers.
Rangers are specieist
@@photoo848 nerd
I am starting to think this guy is the sole reason everyone thinks Rangers are a dumb class
It can't possibly be that 5e just isn't that good....
@@thomasbecker9676 So your DM approach to rules is Lawful Stupid, or...?
This guy is an effect, not a cause 😅
@@MemoristCed I hope you stretch before making those leaps in logic.
Before tashas they were
They were still not the worst class in the game just because they were a half caster with a very strong spell list, but their class features were actual non features, so it would make more sense to go 1, 3, or 5 levels in ranger for a subclass or extra attack, for the proficiencies, and the rest druid or a martial class like fighter, for more of the spells since that was the good thing about ranger
There's also the option of picking plants as your favoured enemy
That sounds like a bad idea
Look at their username, @@Teraplexor1 lol
@@Teraplexor1right up until the treants cone after you.
Goddam trees standing around, plotting and waiting...
my favorite ememy irl is my houseplant who keeps randomly dying and then thriving and then dying and so on and i can’t figure out why so picking plants as my ememy would just add a bit of realism to the game
I always felt the idea of a favored foe was that your character has more experience battling them which gives you an edge in combat against beings of that archetype.
For instance if your character has been fighting a lot of orcs you would be familiar with their movements and vulnerabilities, meaning your attacks are more likely to hit them and when they do they hit for more damage.
Lets say your opponent has a thicker skull then a goblin and makes wider more powerful swings.
If this is one of your favored enemies you would be familiar with these facts and you would be better able to slip through their attacks and you would focus on the torso rather than headshots.
Let's say your favored enemy was beasts so you know how to slash the flanks and pierce between those vertically oriented ribs to damage their vital organs.
If your favored enemy was giants you would be experienced at getting those slashing attacks to their ankles while moving around their attacks.
You might also have experience at deflecting their attacks to the side rather than trying to stop them directly.
My point is it isn't about race it is about your experience and study of their combat styles and vulnerabilities.
Yes. Thematically because rangers operate on knowledge of their environment, a favoured enemy would be one they know better how to fight. However, nothing fuels the desire to understand how to fight something more than hating them, especially if it stems from that race killing your family at one point.
So basically rangers operate on the power of racism, or discrimination in a more broader sense, because they have a favoured terrain also. I hate this place because I don't get all my bonuses for being in a forest.
@@Trumpster05 D&D is fantasy.
@@thomasbecker9676 a fantasy with specific rules and settings based on hard world building. There is always some logic to how everything operates in relation to each other, but everyone has the same opportunity to add their own flavour of how their character interacts with that world.
@@Trumpster05 5e has rules and "hard" world-building?!
@@thomasbecker9676 It certainly can, as much or as little as you like. That's the beauty of tabletop games, my friend.
Love the philosophical orc.
He knows truths from which we all could learn.
Personally, my brother was playing as a Ranger in a campaign I ran. Favored Enemy - Goblinoids. He knows the Goblin language. So, what happens whenever he sees a Goblin, Bugbear, or Hobgoblin?
Ranger: (In Goblin) "Hello, how has your day been?"
Bugbear: (In Goblin) "Well, this guy wants us to harass travelers for so-called tolls, but he hasn't paid my buddy and I for like a month."
Ranger: "That sounds rough."
Bugbear: "Tell me about it. I mean, we got kids at home that need to be fed - it's a little hard to put food on the table when you're not getting paid."
Let's just say that the "Boss" found out why you shouldn't stiff workers of their pay, and those Bugbears got paid to walk away.
That Orc just must have a Charisma score through the roof.
Or he rolled 20 on persuasion
Must be an Orc Warlord left over from 4rth Edition D&D.
Orc rolled a nat20 charisma check
Jim Carrey reprising his role as The Grinch, working his day job.
"Well how about THAT? *OOF* I don't LIKE THAT about me!"
Zac is the best guy for this type of stuff
How’s he still so damn charming g
Clearly Charisma wasn't his dump stat
Perhaps a fey wanderer. They add wisdom to their charisma skills
And so damn sexy too?!
@@RedRolen Fortunately, it's a minimum of +1, or else he'd be taking a penalty...
That voice...
So DnD have confused status like in Pokemon? This guy just hit himself in his confusion
I do wonder what Gnolls would look like in this universe.
The power of racism at its finest. 😂
But seriously, given all the other natural world specific bonuses rangers get and how favoured enemy gives a whole host of bonuses about the creature, including knowing information about the species and its lifestyle and how to track them, its more based on knowledge about the creature and how it will react/move/behave in various situations.
Sun Tzu would be proud of the rangers focus on knowing their enemy.
I thought he'd say Wizards of the Cost
The real enemy is the Hasbro we met along the way.
Fr😂😂
That orc got the best nat 20 on persuade I've ever seen
I mean, it is your favorite foe. Maybe they're your favorite to get drinks with?🎉
Drinking contest!
You can always flavor it as, "they are the best to fight. Fighting anyone else is boring."
He's doing great, glad to see him succeeding
Now when you're lost, I can find you more easily! 😂
"and how 'bout this: i dont like that as much" got me
At least D&D racism is real racism. Unlike this, you-live-on-a-different-side-of-an-imaginary-line racism.
That's not racism, silly, that's nationalism. If you're gonna call names, at least use the right ones.
This orc may be my favorite character from any series of DnD skits. 😂
I don't know what's higher, his WIS or his INT.
Wow that orc cast mind control without anyone realizing
Loving these collabs
Orc rolled a 20 on his persuasion check 😂😂
Puts a new meaning on "killing it."
Tasha's Rangers: I hate everyone equally... But only one at a time.
:D I love the twist.
When the enemy is a full charisma build.
I am just loving this ranger xD
This is hilarious! Only because i mentioned this character to my DM once. A ranger that is bigoted against his "favored enemies" he was not allowed at the table XD i think that is fair.
Reminds me of 3rd edition. Due to all the skill bonuses rangers go towards their favored foe, the best option was basically always to pick human. 😆
That orc had +5 charisma
Legit thought he was gonna say "Maybe the real favored foe is the friends we made along the way"
For all the people taking this seriously, favored enemy/foe represents a familiarity with a specific type of creature's weaknesses, not necessarily hatred.
Also, it's funny how often favored enemy: human is a great choice.
I think hatred is a valid motivation some characters to have for that knowledge, but certainly not the only one available.
Gotta incorporate it into character lore. Like orcs raided his home town or something
My character's response would be "I'm an Elven Paladin and I am not very fond of anyone who isn't an Elf."
This gives me an idea for a ranger that chose their targeted race not because they hate them but because they respect their species as warriors and prefer to dual them because they know how to a have a proper fight
Orc had some high charisma
When you argue with the bard that has the suggestion spell.
Favored foe: depression. Multiclass as a therapist
New Ranger rules:
"Hey, I hate you and you specifically."
"Why, what did I do?"
"Oh nothing, really, it just makes you easier to kill. I'll get over it and move on in a minute."
As a DM, literally the first thing I tell my players.
"Be sure to pick a race you like. This game is hella racist and I love it."
My players: "Ew we don't want a racist DM."
"Ah yeah sure if you don't want any racism then we're gonna pretend dragonkin don't have draconic powers, mermaids can't breathe underwater, dragons can't breathe fire and fey cannot use magic by default. Because every sentient being is gonna be exactly the same and use the same statblock as humans. You want that in your fantasy?"
Bro diversity is the spice of life. Everyone's got their differences and its fine, heck, it makes it even better. Who cares if the fire elementals have beef with the water elementals. Who cares if the race that devours dreams does not get along with the race that lives in dreams. They don't physically get along anyway ofc they're gonna fight on sight.
Except diversity isn't the same as racism (like at all), and racist characters aren't the same as the DM being racist.
Are you 8 years old and think acknowledging people have different skin colors is racist or something? I was trying really hard to not be rude but like, this was pretty dumb dude.
You can always be your true self in dnd, That's why i always pick ranger.
Favored foes can also be a respect thing. If someone's favored enemy is Orcs, they may not outright hate them as a species or want to wipe them out, but they would probably understand their social structure, language, and major tribes/settlements of theirs in the area they're from. They'd also probably would recognize which groups of orcs are more likely hostile.
That's why I like Pathfinder 2Es rules bettter. I stead of having a favorite enemy, you just can choose to hunt a target, and then that specific individual is the one you get bonuses on.
I used favored foe as a special interest for my character. He really REALLY liked dragons.
The real enemy was the friends we made along the way.
Maybe the real Favored Foes are the friends we made along the way?
Actually it was entertaining playing a rogue who hated orcs, when one of our party was a half-orc paladin. Me and him didn't get along which lead to lots of funny intentions and petty fights between our characters. First thing I did in that campaign was try to use my high stealth stats to steal his belt. And then I rolled a 1...
Honestly, my brother and I, while brainstorming what was hated and why for his favored enemy, we decided one would be Humans. Because for some reason, the door to door salesmen are never anything else
Thanks for the gnoll love
This only makes me want to double down on my picks for Favored Enemy.
I played a human ranger whose favorite foe was humans. Best decision I ever made with that character.
I love this especially because my first character is a ranger and i adore her😅
With her i decided on the first favoured enemy with my dm, and then i decided the reason would be that one from that group (decided on constructs) have killed my character's parents. chose constructs.
The DM gave me a specific monster (which they plan on throwing at us later. i think it's CR16🙃) and i incorporated it into the backstory in a way that made sense. And it also develoved more into her not liking things that are too unnatural or like too much involvement of technology or magic. so she's just a technophobe now😅
I love her so much. she was my first ever dnd character which probably is part of the reason why i love her so much, but in general i love her and the class. and also she's a fairy, and a ranger that can fly and have their hands fully free to attack can be kinda busted at times😅
The main issue with Rangers is that to have fun with them and actually feel useful, the DM has to put in active effort to make you feel useful, by incorporating your favoured enemy and favoured terrain, and giving you opportunities to use survival skills and such. And specifically my ranger is also very heavy hitting (idk if im using this phrase right😅) Like, she can do 24 damage max with one bow shot that isnt a crit (since Hunter's mark and also slayer's prey subclass feature add 2d6 total [one for each feature]) and i once did 37 damage with one bow shot on a crit. Which was with a special arrow that added 1d4 lightning but yeah still. Rangers can be powerful and useful you just need someone willing to put in the work to make you feel that way. Which honestly this applies for every class, but it feels more aimed towards rangers because with most other classes the dm doesn't need to put in as much effort for their class features to come in handy.
Circling back to the fact she's a fairy, I thought about it and my character can theoretically 1v4 with my party members and win.
Like, since she's a fairy, she can fly up to 150ft up, the max range where her longbow is still optimal, and then shoot the party members one after another until they are all down. The party members are a druid, a rogue-warlock, a sorcerer-warlock and a barbarian blood hunter. none of them have enough range to hit a target at 150ft. and only the barblood-hunter can fly because she's an owlin, but cant use her weapons while flying because her hands are her wings. So theoretically my tiny fairy ranger can take them all down. of course there are ways for the party members to win, but in their current stats other than the owlin none can fly and dont currently posess any spells or items that allow them to.
My Gnoll ranger any time he sees another Gnoll. "I hate your guts, and I think you should remove them from your body. Let me help you"
Favoured enemy: gnoll guts. NOT gnolls in general, so you have the artificer install cybernetic replacements in any who will stop fighting long enough 😂
This just made me realize that the Goblin Slayer is a Ranger who took Goblin as favored foe
as a note for most campaigns the greatest favored enemy is the HUMAN.
When they choose to do a racism on you but got your charisma maxed out.
He's his own worst enemy Roll for Combat!!
Maybe the real monsters were the friends we made along the way
The real favoured foe was the friends we made along the way
The first time i played a Half Elf Half Human and i was given the opportunity to choose 2 favored enemies. I chose Humans and Elves. My DM immediately called me a Kinsalyer 🤣🤣
Fighter: "i got tactics and bonk"
Barbarian: "i get angry and bonk"
Monk: "i just hit people... it works"
Ranger: "i hate certain races and defend my homeland from them"
Everyone: "....."
It's okay orc bro he's just mad that we get the ability to drop to 1 hp instead of 0 every long rest
So good!!!
3.5 favored enemy was so much better.
+2 on bluff (deception), Sense motive (Insight), Listen and spot (Perception), and Survival, as well as +2 weapon damage vs favored enemies
Edit: which means in 3.5 rangers were particularly good at seducing their favored foes
"Favored foe" doesn't necessarily mean that you particularly hate that race. It means that you know their tactics and weaknesses. "Strong hate" won't make your attacks more effective; knowing their anatomy and fighting style does.
@bronco5334
"I don't hate you; I just spent a long time learning how best to kill you in the most effective way possible."
@@chongwillson972 you've clearly never been in a military. That's literally exactly what we do: learn the doctrine and equipment of competitor states we don't personally hate, so we can most efficiently defeat them if needed.
In game terms, a character would be justified having "favored foe" because they were abandoned and rescued (or captured) and then raised by the "favored foe". Or they were a mercenary who fought alongside the favored foe and learned from them.
It's just a game mechanic, it's up to the players to decide how to apply it to their story
Damm the powers of the warhammer orcs carried over
As a human ranger I had humans as my favorite enemy. Somehow all our "downtime" in human cities and towns were never peaceful.
This is why i like the slayer class in pathfinder and the 2e version of ranger which uses a similar mechanic.
Instead of just being racist, they chose a particular creature to hunt (and they can hunt something they haven't seen, just found some kind of track) and gain their favored bonuses against them until they kill them or abandon the hunt.
It's amazing how the comment sections talking directly about the video instead of the message that it's trying to send.. it went over every one of y'all's Walnut sized brains
Choose fav enemies carefully, because you giving DM a reason to flood your party with specific enemy attacks.
Im a wizard character and my character is rasict to Elves, Tiefling, and Paladin. Tiefling looks like demons (my mother is a witch and her soul was captured by a demon) and Elves i think they are tree hugging, vegetable eating, animal caring freaks. Paladin, i heard a rumored as a child that all Paladin bad touch boys
Where would you take this character because this is a interesting concept for role-playing
@DXAB91 I'm a wizard class, of course I am traveling to the "Mad Mage" to collect all of his secrets and become more powerful. My character was born rich but than his family lost all of their money, I am trying to restore my family wealth. So any quest with money, I’m in no position to be turning down a opportunity for money
"racist, I'm not racist. I love all races. Except if they're the colour green."
Meanwhile the actual feature is written more like "you hyperfixated so hard on learning about this creature type that you can now recall a bunch of lore and you'll probably infodump to the party whenever you get the chance" (I'm autistic and if I was in that world I'd probably do the same tbh)
Ranger failed his wisdom check on that last one
I'm kind of thinking that maybe that orc is a ranger, and HIS "favored foe" is humans...
Thats the worst part about being a ranger, realising that you wasted your hate on an early game foe instead of whatever the final boss is.
as a human ranger, i always pick human as favoured foe, so when i look in the mirror in the morning, im pumped up an ready for a fight
Everyone Ive ever met : the Ranger. Me: the Orce. 😮💨
How consciously awakened people go to war. 😂
Isn't Favored Enemy bonus to tracking and knowledge tests?
I never saw it as hatred and more like the ranger studying and learning how to deal with the enemy most abundant on the places they patrol.
"and what do we do with favored foes? we roll to hit." As someone who enjoys playing rangers (with Tasha's variants but still) I felt that in my bones. Every time combat starts I go "which of these guys looked at me weird? ah yes this one. I will roll my attacks now please, pew pew.
and it feels great. suck it ranger haters-- /lh
In BG3 (Spoilers btw), my first actual experience in DnD, I made it a recurring character trait that my character simply doesnt like the Gith, but helps Prince Orpheus because The Emperor was a liar and asked way too much of the party, becoming a mind flayer when he at first said hed help avoid letting that happen and also killed his friends and Ansur in retaliation to them trying to end his horrid existence and i know now that he was way worse than i discovered so im haply my instincts drove me the way they did though i do try to hate the Gith less
For combat reasons, it is best to choose humans, and then you never fight humans because you are in goblin territory and they have a dragon friend.
cant Favored Foe just be knowledgeable competency? "oh Giants? let me _tell_ you about fighting Large enemies~"
It's supposed to be a flavor thing. As a hunter, you have preferred quarry. Dog the Bounty Hunter picked Humans, Strider picked Orcs, most game hunters pick Beasts to cover their bases against all kinds of animals.
If he were drow, nobody would bat an eye.
When the org passes the charisma check
I like the idea of a person better at fighting a chosen foe. Deer hunting isn’t the same as elephant hunting or squirrel hunting
When the orc is smarter and more charismatic then the Ranger...
I've literally got Favored Foe marked as The Power of Racism on my character sheet
When the orc classes as a bard
That is the reason that good Rangers swap out Favored Foe.
The costumes and makeup are outstanding.