I heard there was a way to give your ranger Magic, not by weapons and armor. Is that true? If so how do I gain it? What level and what types of magic can a ranger get? The book I've been reading for this information is the Players Handbook
@Devils_Spawn D&D books are a little vague about specifying their edition, sometimes, but if you flip to the very first page or two of the book, there should be something on the copyright page that says "First Printing:" and a month + year. That would tell us which edition you're looking at.
(Alternatively, describe the cover art and it'll probably be clear)
Well, the cover, I don't really know how to describe much, well it has a beast with glowing, blue, eyes. The beast has a thing on it's chin that looks like a white beard. There's a few, what I'm guessing to be players, on the cover. One of the characters is fighting the beast, the character has like ginger hair, looks angry, brownish eyes, has silver armor. The surroundings looks like red rocks, lava, lots of darker colors. Does that help with the cover?
I would have to see a picture of it to know for sure. I've checked the cover art of the Player's Handbook of every edition of D&D and I'm not finding a match. I'm not sure if it's because I'm interpreting some part of the description differently than what you meant, or if it's because it's not actually a D&D book, or if there's some other reason.
I'm interested in how the multiclassing rules evolved/changed throughout the history of the game. A small summary of differences should be sufficient. Please include Pathfinder in the answer. I believe it's related enough to add it.
Alternately, adding info to the question which justifies the confusion would be a possibility, and should make the question better. To what extent that will reverse the voting, I can't guarantee
More detail on what you actually found in the ranger description might be useful, though "I'm looking at the wrong book" is just never gonna go over well... something about being expert Q&A (a somewhat nebulous term)
Well, you have a book called Player's Handbook, in it there's a section on Ranger characters. What stuff in in that section? What do Rangers get?
This is going at the same thing as a picture of the book would give. Understanding what you've actually got in front of you and which is the actual source of confusion
Sort of the "valid" reason to ask a "Read the Book to me" question
One of the issues (that you've run into) is that there's multiple books called Player's Handbook, and not just D&D editions, but other D&D-likes too (and some farther afield IIRC)
@DevilsbestfriendisLunar Except for the monster's eye colour (glowing red/orange, not blue, but there is a blue magical glow on the cover), this does sound a lot like the standard 5e PHB cover: dnd.wizards.com/products/tabletop-games/rpg-products/…
My google-fu doesn't turn up any player's handbook from any game that has cover art which is remotely close to the description. Couldn't find an rpg with "double classing" either. I'd be interested to find out what book you were actually looking at.
@KernelPanic Well, and except for the description of "a beast". Like, on the 5e cover, it's pretty clearly a person. A giant person, but a person none the less
That's fair haha. "Being with white beard being attacked by a red-headed hero in front of lava" seemed like more of a match to the description than coincidence imo
I'm interested in how the multiclassing rules evolved/changed throughout the history of the game. A small summary of differences should be sufficient. Please include Pathfinder in the answer. I believe it's related enough to add it.
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