What would be the closest thing to a D&D Ranger in the modern US military and why?

What would be the closest thing to a D&D Ranger in the modern US military and why? Would it really be the 75th off name alone?

What role would a fantasy Ranger fulfil in a modern military?

250 Piece Survival Gear First Aid Kit

LifeStraw Water Filter for Hiking and Preparedness

250 Piece Survival Gear First Aid Kit

  1. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    What I mean by fantasy Ranger is implying the presence of mystical components. He can still utilize modern equipment. Unless...

  2. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    a fantasy ranger would be of limited use if at all. Give me a wizard, cleric, or warlock any day. A high level cleric with access to at least raise dead and regeneration would have his hands full patching up combat casualties.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Hmm, I guess frame it in the thought of the fantasy element being normalized. Like shadowrun without the cyberpunk, D&D Modern with magic and such. The other topic is more like (as an example) a CCT could represent a Wizard with their technical expertise in air traffic control in combat and JTAC capabilities.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        CCTs aren't JTACs dude

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      He said specifically a d&d ranger, which get access to some wizard spells at higher levels I think. Also,

      >not including the other half of CoDzilla

      Druids would be a boon to any country's spec ops. The shape-shifting abilities alone would have a million uses.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        They get access to cleric/druid spells, but only up to 4th level. That doesn't include most of the good stuff like a pure cleric or wizard gets.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >The power of a living god
      >could personally rip the souls out of your enemies and turn their cities to ash
      >Waste your time healing meatshields
      HAHAHAHAHA do Clericucks REALLY???

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        You do realize clerics need to have good reasons to use their high level spells right? While a good cleric can simply roll out their holy words and storms of vengeance, That's supposed to only be done if you have no other option to do so as per your alignment rules, or as a last extreme in the defense of others in the face of a threat of similar power. Sure, a Cleric with the War domain wouldn't really care because he was built for fighting and his whole worship revolves around fighting, but that's beyond the point.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          The wizard is a gay but he does have something vaguely like a point brother.
          Preventing damage via harm to an enemy or proactive bolstering of defenses is exponentially superior to healing, healing should only be done in an emergency.

          Inaction, where action would have saved lives or conquered evil, is itself a sin.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            well I mean I don't disagree, I'm just pointing out that a cleric still has to follow his ethos rules unless he worships a war god. Granted, a wizard could simply roll out his Circle of Death, Acid Storm, or Meteor Swarm on a massed formation as and when he likes anyway. He's just not supposed to take undue pleasure or sadism in taking that many lives at once if of good alignment.

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              While a cleric needs to be justified in their action, every church believes in Just War. Clerics (LG, CG, NG) are absolutely able to drop storms of divine wrath on the heads of soldiers and unaware enemies, they're allowed to attack from surprise, to kill the unarmed, fight and kill the Neutral or even Good in the cause of justice etc, as long as the conflict is righteous.

              Note that alignment would probably disqualify any good cleric from working with a modern government.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Not technically. A modern cleric should, if of Lawful alignment, consider themselves beholden to their temporal rulers. All the alignment screeds I've seen across most canon settings or third party books have said that. Only in matters of the church is the ruler still subservient before God, unless they're actively trying to suppress the cleric's religion. A cleric can refuse to serve in the army from the position of a conscientious objector, but would still have to provide healing in a rear position if asked to do so as part of their ethos of relieving suffering if of Good alignment. But that said if they did find something objectionable in their government, their God would still permit them to work against them from behind the scenes, with the note that it would be extremely embarrassing for a member of the clergy to be caught having essentially committed treason if their actions extend that far. It might or might not turn them into ex-Clerics depending on their actions and the ethos of the God they follow. But any action done in the cause of Good would still leave them in good clerical standing.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                There is a very good chance that every modern government would radiate as Evil so brightly he wouldn't even need detect evil to see it.
                A LG cleric does not have to obey a Pit Fiend if he wins an election.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                You're right. And this is the primary misunderstanding people have with the alignment system.
                A "lawful good" character does not necessarily support government just because it is government. If the government's laws are unjust, or applied unfairly -- as is the case throughout much of the world, and all of the West -- it is the duty of a LG character to work to rectify things. This is true even if the flaws are subtle.
                This, among other reasons, is why LG is the best alignment.
                And of course modern governments are all some variety of LE, NE, CE -- so "good" characters cannot serve them at all.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                There is a very good chance that every modern government would radiate as Evil so brightly he wouldn't even need detect evil to see it.
                A LG cleric does not have to obey a Pit Fiend if he wins an election.

                Not technically. A modern cleric should, if of Lawful alignment, consider themselves beholden to their temporal rulers. All the alignment screeds I've seen across most canon settings or third party books have said that. Only in matters of the church is the ruler still subservient before God, unless they're actively trying to suppress the cleric's religion. A cleric can refuse to serve in the army from the position of a conscientious objector, but would still have to provide healing in a rear position if asked to do so as part of their ethos of relieving suffering if of Good alignment. But that said if they did find something objectionable in their government, their God would still permit them to work against them from behind the scenes, with the note that it would be extremely embarrassing for a member of the clergy to be caught having essentially committed treason if their actions extend that far. It might or might not turn them into ex-Clerics depending on their actions and the ethos of the God they follow. But any action done in the cause of Good would still leave them in good clerical standing.

                It should also be noted that up through 3.5 at least, the churches were implied to have tremendous political influence, and be strongly linked together. There are clerics in even tiny frontier villages, clerics present at all levels of society, and the churches have absurd wealth (DMG2 detailed a city considered an out of the way backwater which had a church the size of the Great Pyramid). It's easy to say "clerics should respect the king" when the king was raised by clerics, crowned by clerics, and has a powerful cleric standing next to him 12 hours a day.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Sure, but if religion is "the opium of the masses" in this world, imagine what it would be like in a world where the Gods are manifestly real and work miracles literally every day.
                You'd be a moron to ignore them.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Of course, you're right, I'm just saying that there's far from a separation of church and state, they're closely interwoven.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      The thing is full casters often have their own shit to do and aren't beholden to anyone but their own structure, you don't "get" them, if they need something they "get" you.

      But why a warlock? I think a ranger would be more useful.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Artificer would be the most useful

  3. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I’d think maybe some kind of reconnaissance or LRRP unit. While you’d be able to argue all the MOS’s lean towards certain classes I’d say your average infantryman in The Regiment would be a Fighter, honed in on being the best martial they can be.

  4. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >D&D Ranger
    Playing actual d&d has always seemed lame to me, I was invited to a game once and they gave me a fricking A4 sheet of things you're not allowed to do or say because it would trigger people. I'm talking shit like having a character under water because one of the girls on the team had some water trauma or something, plus the obvious like "racism" and rape

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      The community has been overran by a lot of cringe shit due to a myriad of factors. But a campaign with your likeminded in group is a lot of fun. But I reckon that’s a discussion for /tg/.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >they gave me a fricking A4 sheet of things you're not allowed to do or say because it would trigger people
      Jesus fricking christ, that's not normal. But like

      https://i.imgur.com/WsfhdYN.jpg

      The community has been overran by a lot of cringe shit due to a myriad of factors. But a campaign with your likeminded in group is a lot of fun. But I reckon that’s a discussion for /tg/.

      says you absolutely want to find a like-minded group. That's all-important for role playing. Even if there aren't any bullshit rules like that involved you can still run into trouble. It's no fun if you want to do a classic dungeon crawl while the other players are more interested in acting out socio-political intrigue at the king's court. And vice-versa.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >that's not normal
        Oh but it is now. Are you saying you don't think it's normal for gays and autogynephiliacs to teach your kids about sexuality? You don't think white people are a cancer on the world and they should give all their stuff to poorer browner people? What are you, some sort of anit-Semite?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      some games run like that with a list up front, its normally intended as a warning for that guy, as there is a subset of player who tend to bring stuff like rape into the game when they dont need to and start creeping on people.

      and if they know one of the players has a specific issue with for example water/drowning, pre warning you is better than letting you go there without being warned.

      most groups just have a quick chat with new players for a few ground rules normally romance is fine but fade to black, a warning if the DM expects the campaign to be dark or not, and a rough sketch of the tone the DM expected to be running had a DM ask about how comfortable we would be having slavery exist in setting, player agreed it was fine because it gave us a group that we all would be happy killing on sight. Most of the time its a quick convo at the start, sometimes if the group is forming frm sratch and not everyone knows everyone else a questionaire might be used to give the DM a idea of any potential issues and make sure everyone is on the same page, most groups will allow most things, but its better to know beforehand rather than disrupt the game by running into something that is a issue unexpectedly

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Shut the frick up

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >because it gave us a group that we all would be happy killing on sight.
        Why would you be happy about killing people selfless enough to try in vain to civilize subhumans?

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          partly because depriving anyone of liberty or the right to enjoy the profits of their own labour is wrong except in very narrow circumstances, principally punishment for a specific crime, and secondly because even if we accepted the notion of 'its ok they are subhuman' starting to treat any group that way is a slippery slope and eventually leads to abuse

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            >depriving anyone of liberty or the right to enjoy the profits of their own labour is wrong
            That's most of the people in history, slaves or "free".

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            Man I love when medieval characters raised in a society where disobeying the king was a death sentence inject modern sensibilities into the fantasy setting.

            If you dropped any classical magical fantasy hero into the modern world it'd look like gameplay footage from fricking Doom, and we'd be the demons.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Post your gun

        >because it gave us a group that we all would be happy killing on sight.
        Why would you be happy about killing people selfless enough to try in vain to civilize subhumans?

        By the way, in DnD 3.5, slavery is by the objective morality system not evil. Being pointlessly cruel to your slaves is evil, but just regular slavery is fine.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      https://i.imgur.com/WsfhdYN.jpg

      The community has been overran by a lot of cringe shit due to a myriad of factors. But a campaign with your likeminded in group is a lot of fun. But I reckon that’s a discussion for /tg/.

      >they gave me a fricking A4 sheet of things you're not allowed to do or say because it would trigger people
      Jesus fricking christ, that's not normal. But like [...] says you absolutely want to find a like-minded group. That's all-important for role playing. Even if there aren't any bullshit rules like that involved you can still run into trouble. It's no fun if you want to do a classic dungeon crawl while the other players are more interested in acting out socio-political intrigue at the king's court. And vice-versa.

      DnD is best played as a drinking game with your buddies. I usually DM, and while I pretend to know the rulebook to sell the illusion of "a game system" I just fricking wing the Difficulty Class values they have to beat on the spot, which in turn allows the game to travel far off of its intended path as long as you have a few pregenerated npc characters to spawn in wherever it goes. Highly recommend it, its usually the source of some pretty good jokes as it devolves into thinly veiled roasts of people IRL or folks hypothetical future wives getting gangbanged. And dont get stuck doing the Vanilla fantasy shit, people would just play Skyrim if all you're doing is slaying monsters with Tolkein classes

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        All the problems with DnD came from loosening the rules and restrictions to "let in" homosexuals "just looking to hang out".

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Have fun with everyone flaking on your your Stranger Things larp bc people can do the same thing but better with a video game these days. If your story is dogshit there is zero point to Trad pen and paper

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            >Have fun with everyone flaking on your your Stranger Things larp bc people can do the same thing but better with a video game these days. If your story is dogshit there is zero point to Trad pen and paper
            Freeform gays love to pretend that "Good story" and rules adherence are binaries when freeform roleplayers and rules benders are known the world over for having the worst fricking writing ever experienced, 99 times out of 100. Every counter-monkey "shitty DnD session story" that's even vaguely believable starts or ends with someone going outside the rules "Because it'll be better".

            The fact is, under the traditional method DnD went from infinitely obscure to completely dominant over the entire market for decades, defining Tabletop games forever, and under the management of the "Dude, the DC is like... yknow whatever just give me a roll and if it's high enough I'll tell you" homosexuals the hobby has crashed and burned.

            You, at best, let in the vandals that burned the hobby to the ground.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Cav scouts are pretty much exactly what a DnD ranger would be if they had guns and light armor. Maybe Force Recon depending on how you want to go about it.

      I only played it once half heartedly, but the whole appeal of DnD is that you and your buds could do whatever the frick you wanted with the world. It was the 80’s equivalent of Gmod. Problem is you need an actual group of people to campaign with. But in that context its basically you and some friends dicking around with your imaginations in a fantasy world. If you’ve ever seen those AI videos with Trump and Obama in their own campaign with Musk or Ben Shapiro being the DM, thats basically the spirit its supposed to be in.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Anyone who hasn't given by the book regular full rules 3.0/3.5 DND an honest try is really doing themselves a disservice.

  5. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    scout sniper or reconnaissance platoon

  6. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Rangers from DND are alright at stealth but where they excel is at tracking. They talk to trees, scout with birds, send messages via mice. It's basically impossible to permanently stay hidden from them if you have to come within a mile of a plant or animal at any point during your week.

  7. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Doesn't ranger get a pet companion? In that case drone operator might be fitting.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Hypothetically, though telling your companion to kill itself is a big no no.

  8. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >What role would a fantasy Ranger fulfil in a modern military?
    long range reconnaissance patrol, obviously

  9. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Who here /RANGERS APPRENTICE/

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Good series

  10. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    The correct answer is indeed the 75th because the closest thing to a D&D Ranger is a DoD Ranger

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      https://i.imgur.com/lxoBmLe.png

      take your pick Legolas.

      > t. does not know what a D&D ranger actually is or does.
      LRRPs and light infantry are rogues or the NPC class "warrior" depending on technical proficiency and other skills.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        I agree, though I'd be interested in your suggestion for the best role for a Ranger.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        The symbol "&" stands for the word "and", which in colloquial usage can be pronounced as a near homophone of the letter "N". The letters "N" and "O" appear consecutively in the Latin alphabet. Thus, the statement that a Dungeons & Dragons (DnD) ranger is right next to a Department of Defense (DoD) ranger is an example of a 'play-on-words' or 'pun'.
        Please join us next week for another installment of 'Explaining How English Works to Dipshits'.

  11. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    take your pick Legolas.

  12. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Being a homeless vet.

  13. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Bumo

  14. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >What role would a fantasy Ranger fulfil in a modern military?
    recon?

  15. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Which of the standard animal companions would be the most practical for your modern ranger?

    >a ranger gains an animal companion selected from the following list: badger, camel, dire rat, dog, riding dog, eagle, hawk, horse (light or heavy), owl, pony, snake (Small or Medium viper),wolf, manta ray, porpoise, Medium shark, and squid. This animal is a loyal companion that accompanies the ranger on his adventures as appropriate for its kind.

    Animal companions are stronger than normal animals, notably, and the ranger can have them perform complex tasks.

  16. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >find on page “CIA”
    >no results

    Come on, super spoopy guys with suspicious amounts of money, gear and connections that always show up to kick off wars by riling up the local peasants? With specific targeted enemies that they have intel regarding? They might not have the forest ninja gameplay characteristics necessarily, but as for the meta and storyline, it’s a close match.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Favored enemy: Goy

  17. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Is an ODA just a large adventuring party?

Leave a Reply to Anonymous Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *