Favored Terrain


Rules Questions


If you take favored terrain urban (buildings). I'm assuming that means cities mainly but would it also include other man made structures like the house found in the woods, and long forgotten temple complex as well? It seems that if you take the "building" portion of it that would be true. I mean if you went into any "man made" structure are talking about urban favored terrain?


I don't think you take aspects of a category. You take "urban" not "urban (buildings)" but yes, I do think it would apply. The rules say when there's overlapping terrain they don't stack, you use the higher bonus that you have. However, it still is really up to the GM. Talk with them.


Favored Terrain (urban) covers all aspects of buildings including roofs, rooms, stairs, whatever, as well as streets, sewers, plazas, marketplaces, docks, castles, whatever. It's where people live.

That said, "urban" doesn't usually include "woods". A cabin in the woods is, indeed, a building. But it's still in the woods which is not an "urban" setting at all.

Could a GM allow Favored Terrain (urban) to apply to a woodland cabin? Sure. I would even recommend that. But he also might say "Nope, that requires Favored Terrain (forest) instead" and he'd be correct either way. In other words, it's up to the GM. Me, I'd recommend that BOTH are applicable and the ranger uses the higher bonus as described in the CRB.

Same holds true for the forgotten temple complex - it's a building so it's "urban" enough for this class feature, but it might also be in the jungle so maybe that terrain applies also, and it might have stairs down into a dungeon which adds a third applicable terrain to at lest part of the temple "complex". All up to GM adjudication, of course.

Final note: I think taking the most permissive option is the best way to handle this. It's a kind-of weak feature on a class that is definitely not a high-tier class, so my take would be to figure out how to adjudicate these situations in whatever way is the greatest benefit to the ranger in question.

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