Ranger

A ranger is the one who is not at the inn. He was seen at the edge of the village at dusk, and somebody's dog barked, and in the morning there is a brace of hares on the widow's step and no other sign of him.

He needs nobody. That is the whole of the calling, and the pride of it. He can sleep in snow and find water in a dry land, and with bow or blade he is a match for most of what he meets; and for the rest he has a little magic, enough to close a cut or to blind an enemy. He carries little and can carry much. Those who have travelled with a ranger say that it is like travelling with good weather, which also does not talk.

Details

• Of all classes the best at surviving alone.
• Peoples whose own accounts name this calling: wood, wild and half-elves, feral and meadow halflings, minotaurs and desert trolls.
• A first class is not the last: in time a character takes two more.