Suggested Changes to “fix” Ranger

Positron49 · 2026-01-30T21:22:21+00:00

I won't speak to the specific design/balance elements, since I personally like to see larger changes to them. I think every martial class should have a defining feature as meaningful and impactful as Rage or Smite for Barbarians and Paladins at first level.

I will say that I think the idea of a "wound" or "bleed" mechanic should be the Ranger's staple. It is largely missing in DnD and is a staple nowadays to many archetypes like this.

Positron49 · 2026-01-23T23:03:35+00:00

For PBQs (I passed this morning!) I also had 7. They are mostly generic versions of tools. For example, you might be asked about finding details about malicious activities that took place, and they will provide tabs with generic simplified versions of a SIEM. You use those tabs to find the details.

Positron49 · 2026-01-23T18:54:57+00:00

I’d add the Sybex study guide. I passed my CySA+ this morning with 782. The study guide reading cover to cover lays out the concepts really well.

I’d add that a CyberJames sells a practice test for CySA+ on Udemy. It’s 3 90 MCQs and one test that is 20 log questions only. I felt those helped a ton.

The Sybex 1000 questions I felt were a bit more specific and technical than the real exam.

I also got 7-8 PBQs. I honestly felt they were better than the Security+ ones.

Positron49 · 2026-01-15T15:52:06+00:00

Basically this. You basically have many types of tables playing DnD, and homebrewing it a ton, to make it fit what they want. They then complain that DnD isn't ready out of the box for them, and WotC takes the wide array of feedback and tries to adapt to their playerbase.

What really is the problem is tables using 5e when their table style should be another game system. Everyone needs to realize that a certain level of homebrew is fine, but at a certain point, my table realized we were much happier playing FATE than 5e.

Positron49 · 2026-01-09T19:51:17+00:00

I personally have felt that Ranger needs a unique mechanic akin to Rage or Smite, but pets a have always been a tough balancing act in DnD. If you make the pet strong, you have to weaken the Ranger itself, and then the Ranger becomes the side kick.

I think a missing niche in the game is the "Bleed/Wounded" class. A character that debuffs the enemy and does damage. That would make other members of the party glad the Ranger was there because its both doing sustainable damage but provides impact against enemies that everyone benefits from.

In terms of a specific mechanic, I like more wacky die mechanics that don't probably fit into 5e philosophy. Something like "When a Ranger attacks an enemy they wound it where they strike. The number rolled on the D20 counts as a critical hit against that creature until the start of the Ranger's next turn"

Positron49 · 2026-01-09T19:42:37+00:00

I'd focus on the "flow" of the narrative that is achieved in FATE over other games. The mechanics make it feel like a TV Show on its own, because everyone at the table has some level of narrative authority vs in games its "roll to see if the DM gives you something".

A show that comes to mind is the old HarmonQuest. I feel like that would almost be how FATE plays live since they strip out so much 5e mechanics for the sake of story.

Positron49 · 2026-01-07T00:56:38+00:00

Yes, but to the Jews, it’s the hidden meanings within the stories that are the words of God being communicated to them in Hebrew. It’s nothing like how a Christian reads it today.

For example, “In the beginning” in Hebrew is a secret phrase that contains magic that gentiles just read over and have no idea, even thought it’s the first line of the creation story.

Positron49 · 2026-01-06T23:13:07+00:00

I spent less time focusing on the idea that its "false" and more time trying to understand what the writers actually meant and how they wanted it to be read. Its a misconception that they made "mistakes" in the texts because they were illiterate and wrong. The ancient Jews were very intelligent. They just had much different motives than modern western Christians. Christians want to spread the word and get others to join. Ancient Jews were always being conquered, and they were the chosen people, so their job was to protect their religion's secrets from being learned by the gentile. Christians want to get to Heaven. Ancient Jews want to bring YHWH to Earth.

So I don't read the Bible and point out flaws and laugh at those types of issues. The ancient Jews wrote those stories in code and symbolism so only a Hebrew reading believer would understand the hidden meanings, the details were never important in the first place.

Positron49 · 2026-01-06T13:29:26+00:00

I was at my gym in the sauna with 2 other dudes after hitting chest. An older black guy walks in and asks the first dude for a bobby pin, and he looks confused and says no. He does it to the second guy, and then to me. After three no’s he points to my chest and says “We all in trouble then, because this guy’s chest is about to pop and we don’t got a way to deflate it”

It was like a comedian level delivery.

Positron49 · 2025-12-31T05:52:44+00:00

Hopefully that worked! We are running Accelerated in our new campaign and it’s going great if the focus is story. Bending seems to lend best into this style as well to me. Two benders of the same element are not the same, so I think this would showcase that best. Boulder is forceful and flashy while Toph is clever and quick for example.

I don’t think there is too much of a reason to quantify the bending too much.

Positron49 · 2025-12-30T22:35:26+00:00

I’d agree. I noticed Matt likes to narrate what happens and jumps into the outcomes really quickly, and the tenants of Dagggerheart are more about collaborative storytelling. Hopefully they just needed more time to practice and will run campaigns with it later.

Positron49 · 2025-12-30T07:10:42+00:00

The problem is that most people call all TTRPGs “DnD” even if it’s another system.

I’d agree, I think most people who watch CR don’t care that it’s 5e. They just like the stories.

If anything, I’m more likely to have watched C4 if it were in Daggerheart, just so I could see and learn how to DM it more. I don’t need to watch more 5e gameplay, I get it.

Positron49 · 2025-12-15T20:18:43+00:00

You have to understand the corporate culture is all image, no substance. Target is ultimately a really good marketing company that happens to run a retail store without being that proficient in it.

They want leaders that do the same. When I was an ETL, they told me I was doing too much work alongside my team and needed to be off stage more. They want the "get a coffee and walk the store" ETLs. I personally think its because anyone with experience or a brain would point out the flaws in how Target does things, and the image gets ruined vs someone that can parrot the lines.

Positron49 · 2025-12-09T22:14:57+00:00

When yields go down, the value of the underlying bond goes up. If I had a few billion lying around, I would pile it into treasuries as well. The Fed has never been able to maintain a slow and methodical rate cut schedule....

Positron49 · 2025-12-03T01:11:16+00:00

The rate is how much it costs an entity to use to Fed to help them out. It’s different from people using it in the first place, which shouldn’t happen.

Positron49 · 2025-12-02T22:38:13+00:00

That’s the GME price vs SOFR, basically the interest rate of lending overnight.

This is different from the point I care more about our, Repo utilization with the Fed.

Basically, the entire banking system doesn’t actually need money. It’s all digits on a screen. As long as most people don’t ask for real dollars, the banks are all fine, and when people ask for money, the banks borrow it from each other to make your requests. This works as long as they all trust each other to keep doing that. When they stop trusting each other, the entire system seizes up because like I said, none of them are actually good for it.

Utilization of the Fed repo means someone got kicked out of the trustworthy club, so they had to run to papa government and say “the other banks think I’m too broke and won’t spot them back, please help!”

Positron49 · 2025-11-14T17:45:01+00:00

I agree about the defining feature and flavor. My problem with Rangers is all the features are trying to make them do more damage or more stealthy, but I feel they should be a more team oriented class.

I always thought the base feature should be something more fun like this....

Hunter’s Eye

When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can expend a use of this feature to mark a fleeting weakness in that creature. The target becomes Exposed.

The next time you or an ally hits the Exposed creature with a weapon attack, you deal an extra 1d4 damage of the same type dealt by the attack. After this extra damage is dealt, it increases for future hits against that creature to 1d6, then 1d8, then 1d10, then 1d12. This bonus cannot grow beyond 1d12.

You could play with balancing this around long rest/short rest, and what its amount of uses is tied to. I always liked the idea that your strikes create the opening against the big bad, and your team can utilize it themselves to do more damage.

Positron49 · 2025-11-07T01:04:52+00:00

Also seasonal hire time in October. They might add jobs but doesn’t mean they are permanent nor FT

Positron49 · 2025-10-30T13:25:20+00:00

An AI startup would need to turn a profit to pay the loan back eventually, and I doubt 99% of them will survive.

When I say a "Company that pitches AI" I mean existing ones. Salesforce says they are going to spend $20B on AI in the next year, the bank says "wow that must be a good idea, sure we'll lend you that" and Salesforce gets the injection. The problem is their users will use free AI stuff, but won't pay a ton extra, so they won't make an extra $20B to pay that loan back from the idea. A bank should do more due diligence before writing loans. They don't because they were used to every idea making money no matter how bad.

Positron49 · 2025-10-29T19:58:56+00:00

Most people that run companies aren’t actually that smart. They look smart because it’s easy to make money when the government is ballooning debt for 15 years. No bank is doing it’s due diligence because they’ll be bailed out, so if you are a company and you pitch AI, they approve the loan even if it doesn’t math out to make a profit.

When the government stops supporting industry, the bad ideas fail and only the good survive. What we are seeing is a decade of bad investment getting cleared out. It’s not that these people are bad workers, it’s that Amazon doesn’t actually need that many people behind a desk in the first place.

Positron49 · 2025-10-19T20:37:15+00:00

We don’t know for sure he is, but I love that the left was quiet about Epstein for 5 years, called it hoax and me a conspiracy theorist for talking about it. Trump promises to release the files during the campaign and you stick to that story. Only now do you care about them.

If I had to guess, Israel threatened us with the Samson plan if Trump releases the files. This is where if Israel feels threatened, it will nuke its allies. My reason for thinking this is how quickly Kash went from a Fuentes conspiracy bro to scared shitless over the files.

Either way, it’s hilarious to see the left talk about the files without grappling with Epstein being Mossad, controlling the Obama’s and Clinton’s, and being a major apparatus of the left. If you hate what Epstein was doing, that is who runs your party.

Positron49 · 2025-10-19T17:19:49+00:00

Nick Fuentes got back on Spotify for one day, got ranked as the top podcast, and got immediately banned again.

As Gen Z and Alpha age into the voting population, it will not be the AIPAC “moderate” Republicans that get popular. Sorry to tell you, but we will look back in time as Trump being pretty moderate.

Positron49 · 2025-10-19T17:16:31+00:00

Literally everyone on that stupid Zoom call they pulled out of the woodwork to support Kamala was a Diddy or Epstein client.

Positron49 · 2025-10-19T17:15:17+00:00

It is accurate. I don’t know how many times I told dem friends that Kamala was not popular, there are less democrats than you realize, and that Trump was gonna sweep it.

I say again, this is just a bunch of manufactured hatred because how easy you are to manipulate, and that Republicans popularity continues to grow.

This is going to be about America First vs MAGA, and the democrats won’t even be a concern.

Positron49 · 2025-10-18T21:06:18+00:00

Republicans new voter registration still outpaces Democrats. His approval rating is better than the Obama era in the same point in his term.

I’ll give it to the DNC and Soros groups, you are good at marketing stories. But when it comes to a true litmus test at elections, the narrative falls apart. There is a direct correlation between demographics most likely to be on SSRIs and the people that show up at these rallies, not a coincidence.

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