| GingerDiceHoarder |
Apologies if this has been asked and answered.
Has there ever been any further clarification beyond the Core Rulebook as to how the Ranger's Favored Terrain feature (and other equivalent abilities) actually works in regard to adventures on planes that aren't the Material Plane? Other than the single line "If a specific terrain falls into more than one category of favored terrain, the ranger’s bonuses do not stack; he simply uses whichever bonus is higher.", and the inclusion of "Planes (pick one, other than Material Plane)" on the list of Favored Terrain options, I haven't been able to find any details in the rules, which leads me to a couple of related questions:
-Do FT bonuses from non-planar terrains work anywhere outside the Material Plane? For example, does a ranger with "Forest" as a FT gain the benefits when in forests/forest analogues in Elysium or the Fey World?
-Does "pick one" mean an entire plane, or a single layer of a plane? Does a ranger who selects "The Abyss" as a FT gain the bonuses on every single layer of the Abyss, despite one layer being wildly different from the next, or do they only gain the bonuses on one specific layer? (If the latter, can they select the same plane multiple times to get bonuses in more than one layer?)
-Presuming a ranger does pick an extraplanar FT, does Knowledge(geography) actually do any good on another plane? Do they just essentially not get that bonus because it's completely useless? Would it make more sense to swap the bonus to Knowledge(planes) checks to navigate instead?
Some of those questions it's pretty easy to figure out the RAW answer, but I'm also wondering if Paizo has ever clarified them in terms of RAI.