


I'd take the ability scores, adjust the gear slightly, and make him a 16th-level ranger. But I also think it breaks verisimilitude to have this legendary adventurer, with centuries of experience, be on par with me after just a few months of adventuring.ĭude is an NPC. He's whatever the DM needs him to be from at that moment.

Would any of us be happy with a DMPC tagging along whose level is twice mine? I wouldn't be. On the other hand, if he needed to be toned down so as not to completely outshine the player characters during a streamed game then I get that, too. Which is also arguably weaker than his previous incarnations by a considerable margin. That might just come with the territory of adapting from previous editions, but there was a conversion guide from WotC and I dislike how he didn't adhere to that. And if you play Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms, he's a pure ranger again.Īnd using Chris Perkins' stats, in case you were wondering. But in fairness, rangers were fighter kits for a very long time and basically everyone was multiclassed in 3.X. Then WotC took over and turned him on his head by multiclassing as a Fighter 10, Barbarian 1, Ranger 5 ( Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting). By the time 2nd Edition ( Heroes' Lorebook) rolled around, he had climbed all the way to 16th-level. When he was statted up in 1st Edition AD&D ( The Savage Frontier), Drizzt was a 10th-level ranger.
