OD&D - The Ranger - Simplifying the Description - 002

The next thing I will look at is the base portion of the description:

Rangers are a sub-class of Fighting Men, similar in many ways to the new sub-class Paladins, for they must always remain Lawful or lose all the benefits they gained (except, of course, experience as a fighter). Strength is their Prime Requisite, but they must also have both Intelligence and Wisdom scores of at least 12 each, and a Constitution of at least 15.

To simplify this I suggest a few things: one change the first sentence to read as follows:

Rangers are a sub-class of Fighting-Men who must remain Lawful or lose all of the sub-class benefits and revert back to a Fighting-Man.

The second thing we notice is that Strength is the Prime Requisite but there is no minimum Strength and then we are told that both Intelligence and Wisdom must be at least 12 and Constitution must be at least 15.

I suggest changing this to:

Rangers must have Strength (PR) and Constitution Scores of at least 15 and Intelligence and Wisdom Scores of at least 12.

So to recap:

Rangers are a sub-class of Fighting-Men who must remain Lawful or lose all of the sub-class benefits and revert back to a Fighting-Man. Rangers must have Strength (PR) and Constitution Scores of at least 15 and Intelligence and Wisdom Scores of at least 12.

That took us from 63 words to 44 words.


In the next post I will tackle another section of this the Ranger description.  If I get really brave I might tackle the Bard one of these days. :)