Howdy!
I'm working on a ranger which I'm sort of letting myself be inspired by the Punisher. But I'd like to find an ability/power/thing to exchange Hunter's Bond with. I don't feel an Animal Companion is fitting to this image I have of him, and that other part with hunting companions is in my view downright rubbish and doesn't fit the bill either.
Also, I'll be using the Skirmisher archtype, since the divine nature part takes second place in his view, having dedicated himself to Calistria, not your typical nature deity, I think.
So what would be an appropriate exchange for Hunter's Bond?
A feat?
Some other ability, maybe something from the Inquisitor?
Any input will be quite helpful!
Thank you and take care!
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Welp, for starters, within the rules there's some options.
Trophy Hunter if you wanna use guns. Makes you even better at tracking stuff too, and gets rid of many of the nature based abilities.
Guide actually is pretty good as a non-magicy Ranger. Gets rid of Favored Enemy, but replaces it with a nice X/Day "Screw this guy in particular" ability.
The next, most obvious question I guess would be "Does it have to be a Ranger"?
If you want a Punisher feel, the Fighter works all right (considering the Punisher's skills are basically "Yell loud" and "Hit stuff", you're not running into a lack of skills ruining the concept). The Brawler might be a good choice of archetype here.
A Barbarian fits pretty well too. Just steer clear of the blatantly Su powers and you're gold.
Gunslinger is, of course, the obvious. Screw Calistria, your gods are Heckler & Koch, accept no substitutes.
That could work.
Well, first of, it's for a Kingmaker campaign. Secondly, I think the favored enemy makes more sense in my head, for this guy.
I haven't thought of him to be a shooty ranger. I'll be giving him the two-hander fighting style. So I'll be sneaking up on people and whack the living daylights out of them.
He's a lone wolf, at least to begin with.
So gunslinger is really not what I'm going for, neither is the guide, but that is a good archtype as well.
So maybe I should be more precise about any input ;)
Within the constraints of ranger skirmisher with twohanded weapon, what ability could you reasonably exchange with hunter' bond?
Thanks again :)
Well, err, nothing Gworeth. You can't just swap out one ability like that. Unless your DM has already OK'd it, which you haven't mentioned.
Also with BBT on this one...not catching the "Punisher feel" from "Guy with a big Greatsword".
I guess you have to be inside my head then. Luckily you aren't, there's crowded enough as it is.
The punisher feel would be his mentality, I see now how I failed at my help request in that department. Also I would have to get an okay from my GM for swapping abilities.
Sorry that I've confused you guys. My bad, but thanks none the less.
Yeah, I suppose. Haven't seen it that way... Even more cool :D
So you're making The Justicar?
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Slayer from the Advanced Class Guide Playtest...it's this exact thing.
My GM and I have actually talked about the Slayer. I sort of missed that it was in playtest now!
And I suppose you could compare him with the Justicar...