I was playing with a multi-classed Ranger/Horizon Walker and ran into a quirk with favored terrain. At Horizon Walker 1, you choose a favored terrain. Fine, makes sense, just like the Ranger. At several other levels the Horizon Walker gets favored terrain again, with the option to increase a previously chosen terrain.
My question is - if the character already had one or more favored terrains from the Ranger class, could he choose to increase a previous favored terrain by +2 at Horizon Walker 1? He explicitly can with every other improvement to favored terrain granted by the prestige class, but there is no guidance for level 1. Admittedly it's a corner case, but I was building a character to test what the highest achievable bonus is by maxing out a single favored terrain all the way to level 20.
it stacks with the rangers favored terrain. says it works exactly like the rangers version
it stacks with the rangers favored terrain. says it works exactly like the rangers version
I understand that. My question was whether the favored terrain at Horizon Walker 1 (and no other level) increased an existing favored terrain if you had one or it had to be a new terrain. But thinking more about it I realize that all of the favored terrain levels above Ranger 1 or Horizon Walker 1 explicitly say that they come with a new terrain and a bonus to an existing terrain, not that the new terrain can be swapped for an increase to an existing terrain. It would be nice if a character also got the increase if they already had favored terrain from another class before they entered Horizon Walker, but that's not how it looks like the rules read.
Thanks for your reply.