And with this trip down memory lane, I'll leave some notes on rangers.
1e is when the ranger (new subclass of fighter) gets what has evolved into "giant killer": they get +1/lvl to damage on any hit against bugbears, ettins, giants, gnolls, [hob]goblins, kobolds, [mage] ogres, orcs, and trolls. They've got a mix of druid and magic-user spells. They get something like "dread ambusher," in that they surprise their enemies 50% of the time. And they get followers at name-level, which will be an interesting mix of beasts and humanoid forest-lovers. And tracking.