Hello all. I love the ranger, I have never played a paladin, but I think I could enjoy it from a role-playing and roll-playing perspective. There is just one thing that bothers me, the spells. Now, I have nothing against spellcasters, just these classes as such. I don't know where WotC came up with them having spells at all. Maybe spell-like abilities, but not spells outright.
When Complete Warrior came out and I read the Table of Contents having "non-spellcasting" Paladins and Rangers I was very excited. Until I read their "fix". Basically what WotC did was take multiple uses of abilities and make them once per day abilities. At 11th level I can gain the ability to give myself +4 to Str, Wis or Cha for one minute per level only ever ONCE PER DAY. Or I can take my spells normally and eventually prepare a Bull's Strength, Owl's Wisdom or Eagle' Splendor a few times a day.
I guess my point is, please don't give these classes spells, but also don't give them something stupid in return. Not that I expect anything bad coming from Paizo seeing the new classes so far. I guess I've just wanted to vent about the Paladin/Ranger for a little while and this seemed like the time to do it.
