Ranger Spell List Variant

[Eric Generic]

So I know we all have that question about how we could make the Ranger better. I decided to craft up a spell list that, instead of dumbed down Druid spellcasting, this Ranger Spell List variant focuses on finding your enemy, getting to your enemy, some wilderness survival stuff as per usual, magic defense in case if your favored enemy has spells or spell-like abilities, and variants to various spells that specifically target ONE of your Favored Enemies for each time you cast said variant spell (Example: "Detect Favored Enemy"). Now if someone else has already done this and did a better job than me, then I'd definitely like to see it so I can use it in my campaigns (and hopefully convince my DM to let me use it for when I get to be a player).

THIS IS STILL IN PROGRESS BTW

Level 0:
-Detect Magic
-Ranger's Mark (Arcane mark variant. It's analogous in all forms except it's a divine focus instead of an arcane focus)
-Identify

-Create Water
-Mending
-Detect Poison

Level 1:
-Detect Secret Doors
-Endure elements
-Animate Rope
-Expeditious Retreat
-Featherfall

-Detect Favored Enemy
-Protection from Favored Enemy
-Hide from Favored Enemy
-Deathwatch
-Bane
-Cause Fear
-Entropic Shield

-Comprehend Languages
-Disguise Self
-Sleep

-True Strike
-Magic Weapon

Level 2:
-Acid Arrow
-Align Weapon
-Ghoul Touch

-Fog Cloud
-Obscure Object
-Darkness
-Blur
-Invisibility
-Mirror Image
-Misdirection
-Alter Self
-Blindness/Deafness
-Undetectable Alignment

-Glitterdust
-Darkvision
-Rope Trick
-Spider Climb
-Detect Thoughts (willing subjects or Favored Enemies only)
-Locate Object (or Favored Enemy)
-See Invisibility
-Knock
-Phantom Trap
-Find Traps

-Bull's Strength
-Bear's Endurance
-Eagle's Splendor
-Fox's Cunning
-Owl's Wisdom

-Consecrate (only if Undead is a favored enemy)
-Desecrate (only if Undead is a favored enemy)
-Delay Poison

Level 3: (i apologize for the random change in organization of spells)

•Dispel Magic
•Magic Circle Against Favored Enemies
•Nondetection
•Sleet Storm
•Arcane Sight
•Clairaudience/Clairvoyance
•Telepathic bond, Lesser
•Deep Slumber
•Heroism
•Hold Favored Enemy
•Rage
•Displacement
•Invisibility Sphere
•Major Image
•Halt Favored Enemy
•Vampiric Touch
•Blink
•Flame Arrow
•Fly
•Haste
•Keen Edge
•Magic Weapon, Greater
•Shrink Item
•Slow
•Water Breathing

•Glyph of Warding
•Bestow Curse
•Contagion
•Water Walk

4 LEVEL

•Dimensional Anchor
•Fire Trap
•Remove Curse
•Stoneskin
•Dimension Door
•Solid Fog
•Arcane Eye
•Detect Scrying
•Locate Favored Enemy
•Scrying
•Confusion
•Crushing Despair
•Resilient Sphere
•Hallucinatory Terrain
•Invisibility, Greater
•Phantasmal Killer
•Fear
•Polymorph

•Air Walk

5 LEVEL

•Break Enchantment
•Dismissal
•Mage's Faithful Hound
•Teleport
•Contact Other Plane
•Prying Eyes
•Telepathic Bond
•False Vision
•Mirage Arcana
•Persistent Image
•Seeing
•Blight
•Symbol of Pain
•Animal Growth
•Baleful Polymorph
•Passwall

6 LEVEL

•Antimagic Field
•Dispel Magic, Greater
•Planar Binding
•Probe Thoughts
•True Seeing
•Mislead
•Permanent Image
•Programmed Image
•Shadow Walk
•Viel
•Circle of Death
•Control Water
•Disintegrate
•Transformation

7 LEVEL

•Banishment
•Sequester
•Phase Door
•Plane Shift
•Teleport, Greater
•Teleport Object
•Arcane Sight, Greater
•Scrying, Greater
•Symbol of Stunning
•Forcecage
•Invisibility, Mass
•Project Image
•Control Favored Enemy
•Finger of Death
•Symbol of Weakness
•Control Weather
•Ethereal Jaunt
•Reverse Gravity

8 LEVEL

•Dimensional Lock
•Mind Blank
•Protection from Spells
•Maze
•Planar Binding, Greater
•Trap the Soul
•Discern Location
•Prying Eyes, Greater
•Antipathy
•Binding
•Power Word Stun
•Telekinetic Sphere
•Clone
•Symbol of Death
•Polymporph Any Object

9 LEVEL

•Freedom
•Imprisonment
•Mage's Disjunction
•Prismatic Sphere
•Teleportation Circle
•Foresight
•Hold Favored Enemy, Mass
•Power Word Kill
•Weird
•Astral Projection
•Soulbind
•Wail of the Banshee
•Etherealness
•Shapechange
•Time Stop

Again, still in progress. So what are your thoughts? Of course I understand this would also probably change spells known and spells per day and all that, but I'd like to just focus on the actual spells a Ranger should be able to cast that combine and work well with the abilities he already has and such. For example (other than favored enemy), I was considering allowing a Ranger to boost his animal companion with Bear's Strength, etc., or maybe even with Magic Weapon on the companion's natural attacks, thus making it analogous with Magic Fang for the Ranger.

[Diego Rossi]

9 levels of spells? Cantrips? How many are the spell per day of you revised ranger? and what levels?

And what is the cost of getting "every spell you would want" in your spell list? Looking your list it seem that the class become more powerful without getting any drawback.

[Suma3da]

So let me get this straight.... You want a class with full BAB progression, full caster progression, a cherry-picked spell list, plus a companion, plus favored enemy, plus the combat styles, plus the other Ranger fluff?

[Zhayne]

The nicest thing I can say about this proposal is that you're out of your f**king mind.

[Gaberlunzie]

Even dropping the spells level 5-9, this seems too strong.

[Eric Generic]

I was trying to say that I was just getting a general idea through it. Literally all I've done is get spells together I think would work nicely with the Ranger. I understand that this definitely needs to be nerfed, levels taken out, and narrowed down, but the idea of a different spell list with this sort of focus to it.

You know what, nevermind. I've learned my lesson that I shouldn't post raw ideas on here and I thank you for teaching me that. I'll post the finished list later once I get it done.

[lemeres]

Wolfgang McSwaggerpants wrote:

I was trying to say that I was just getting a general idea through it. Literally all I've done is get spells together I think would work nicely with the Ranger. I understand that this definitely needs to be nerfed, levels taken out, and narrowed down, but the idea of a different spell list with this sort of focus to it.

You know what, nevermind. I've learned my lesson that I shouldn't post raw ideas on here and I thank you for teaching me that. I'll post the finished list later once I get it done.

Well, at least not on this part of the forum. I am pretty sure that this belongs in homebrew.

For a Paizo made (and PFS legal if I remember correctly) method of changing the available spell list for a ranger, you could look at the Witchguard. This archetype's most interesting change is that you can pick a witch patron that adds spells to the spell levels you can actually cast. This typically means you get access to the level 2-8 abilities (although, since many spells have multiple spell levels due to varying classes, and I do not see a specified level for patrons, you might snag the level 10 spell too; I am not an expert at this)

Maybe this will give you a better idea of the limits of how you can change the class before people start getting antsy.