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In the novels, yes he did. If you are basing it on the movies I could perhaps agree with your position, but in the novels it is clearly magic. Specifically, he used healing magic on Frodo after he was attacked on Weathertop, he later used magic to awaken/resurect Aowyn. Here is the text from...

My favorite is Rise of Tiamat, the standard cover.

Sure but there is nothing at all they get that screams Nature Warrior like so many seem to associate with it today, and the magical bits, while coming late, are clearly magical, not mundane. Also keep in mind the original Ranger was not a class, but a subclass and for the most part they were a...

I have played a scout once and loved it. It really filled the role well.

I think a Ranger needs magic and it explicitly needs magic spells. What I would like are more traditional arcane spell options in the class; spells like Chill Touch, Friends, Magin Missile and Web. You can get this kind of stuff on Rangers now through subclasses, feats and races, but I would...

This Ranger has Magic-User spells and the potential for Magic-Users, Pegasus, Unicorn and Dragons as potential followers. Able to employ all devices that deal with Clairvoyance, Clairaudience, ESP, Telepathy, Telekenesis, and Teleportation. They get extra damage against Giant Class monsters...

For me that is what defines the class and always has, all the way back to 1E. They had some tracking abilities, the ability to use Wizard (magic-user) and Druid spells and bonuses for fighting certain monsters (which in 5E is bonuses for just fighting period). I don't really care much about...

For me the Ranger does not require nature, but it does require magic, including some access to Arcane style magic. The current class afford that (even if it encourages you to lean away from it)

I thought Scout was really good as a Nature type scout guy. Not enough magic to fill the Ranger role for me, but plenty good in the wilderness.

Aragorn absolutely had magic in the Tolkein novels, both healing magic and other spiritual out of body divination type magic.

My problem with the Rogue is as a class it is not magical enough to fill what I like about the Ranger. You can get some magic options through Rogue subclasses, but all Rangers get spells (lots of them with Primal Awareness), Favored Foe and Nature's Veil and they can get more magical stuff...

I really like the current 5E post-TCE Ranger design, it is probably what I play most often. I am not a fan of the new playtest Ranger as it dialed back much of the magic thematics. In terms of archetype/stereotype Ranger and Rogue may fill a similar role, but the archtype Ranger is not what I...

I don't find low or unbalanced rolls to be that debilitating in play. There are certain builds or play styles that are "off the table" with low rolls and if you were dead set on that as your PC I could see that being an issue, but most of the time players will choose options that work with...

I've played all of the first 4 and I think it is better than those 4 generally on a single class Wizard at most levels when built to optimize it. You need to build specifically to get the most out of Bladesong too and a Bladesinger can be a force to recon with in melee when you do, but that is...

People do play at high level and almost everyone plays at level 1-2 and the Monk is a strong class in both of those ranges. It is around level 5-8 where it is objectively weak in comparison to other classes and it is a small minority of games that are played only in that small window.