Rangers favored enemy

[TheImpossibleDream]

As a human, I know how to kill a human very well... just saying!

Good point. I propose all humans get free feat FE:Human based on thier character level rather than just ranger level.

[Drakill Tannan]

I think you guys are looking everywhere for a good explanation when you don't really need to. To be a favored something means to be regarded or treated with preference or partiality. A ranger can have tons of reasons to do that: because he expects to fight that race, because he has trained to fight that race, because he hates that race, because it is the race he hunts more often, etc. It can be explained in a lot of ways.

[Staring Death]

It's as if a wide range of Rangers stands accused here for picking up a FE: Human for whatever semi-reason they can come up with. Since I left off with a FE:Human ranger, I feel obligated to share my pov. As will be the general consensus, all of these players apparently expect to be (actively) involved in PvP with humans (since it's such a dominant PC race). But Favored Enemy can as easily be explained as the race you have the most (anatomical) knowledge about, looking at the bonusses it provides. Most of us jolly human rangers know where to hit a (hu)man to cripple him for life, but a Dwarf's stones may yet be made of iron. Who knows?

Anatomical knowledge about where to hit someone to cripple them is more sneak attack.

Favored Enemy involves less anatomical knowledge and more of how to hunt them, seeing that you get detection bonus and tracking bonus against them.

That is my point of view.