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Not A Typo, Gary Said So
Gary Gygax wrote an article in Dragon magazine #96 about the Ranger/Druid multi-class ("New jobs for demi-humans - Dwarven clerics, elven rangers, and that's not all...", April 1985), and Frank Mentzer wrote a follow-up ("All about the druid/ranger - A classy explanation, better late than never", Dragon #100). As AD&D 2e was ...
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The god Mielikki, from the Forgotten Realms setting, allows her priests to be Ranger/Druids of Neutral Good alignment (see Mielikki entry in the 2nd ed. AD&D book Faiths and Avatars, page 114–5). Her Druids are still required to be True Neutral, and her Rangers Neutral Good, but the multiclassed Druid/Ranger of Mielikki is Neutral Good. (Notably, the ...
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Gaining an animal companion wasn't a thing druids could do any better than any other class in 2nd Edition, at least not without using kits* and other options from non-core books.† (This was more the province of 2e rangers, who acquired animal companions instead of human followers at higher levels.)
To get an animal companion in 2e as a druid you had to do ...
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A decision to remove much of the class power role playing elements from basic, AD&D, 3.0 and 3.5, is the essence of 4.0. It was simplified, removing the more radical (life expectancy elements from prior editions, and reducing. It is easy enough to lets say, remove things like magic resistance, instant killing poison, and morale, but reversing those is ...
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