Ranger

Play a ranger if you want internal struggle with independance, predation and defending against a wild beast

Warrior of the land

When you fight using the terrain for advantage ask:

• Have you scouted the area?
• Are they less familiar with this terrain than you?
• Did you out prepare your opponent?

Roll 1d6 for each ‘yes’ and choose 1 for each hit:

• Inflict precise or incidious harm
• Impress, frighten, or disorient them
• Hold them at bay

Skilled Tracker

When you track a mark or hunt prey ask:

• Have they been here in the last day?
• Are they unprepared to hide their tracks?
• Is the weather cooperating?

Roll 1d6 for each ‘yes’ and choose 1 for each hit:

• you find them
• you stay hidden
• you don’t travel far out of your way

Introspective observation

When you comprehend you may spend a hit on:

• Who here has trouble sitting with their own thoughts?
• who here is comfortable with the brutality of the wild?

Arc

Let your curiosity about the questions in the following acts pull you towards their answers. Don’t decide on the answers, play to find them out. Let the table know what questions you’re curious about. If you find it helpful, write the current questions you want to focus on on note cards and keep them available for the rest of the table to reference.

Remember all the other PCs have their own similar questions. Cultivate curiosity about theirs. Play to find out the answer to theirs as well. If there is a question about another character you are particularly curious about let them know but be careful not to impose on their character arc.

Feel free to write your own questions where you are inspired. These are drawn from classic archetypes as a framework but go for the arc you’re interested in.

When you complete each of acts 1-4, gain a move from your Path.

The enemy

The archetypal enemy of the Ranger is a wild beast. (editors note: Maybe there is a threats, or monster manual type section with this information)

Act One:

Focus: Understanding your home or mundane life and your place within it. (note to self: are these MC moves?)

Answer 4 to move to Act Two.

• What makes your home seem small?
• How do your caregivers or colleagues react to your wandering?
• What naive misconception do you have about predators?
• What about your home is unfulfilling?
• What about your home keeps you complacent?

Act Two:

Focus: Disruption of your home or mundane life by a wild beast. Create it as a world anchor.

Answer 4 to move to Act Three.

• What inner conflict do you have over predation?
• What happens that you can’t ignore or abide?
• What conflict do you try to avoid and why do you fail?
• How does the wild best threaten your home and how are they defenseless?
• What draws you out into the wild and what must you find or discover before you return?

Act Three:

Focus: Difficulties that challenge your sense of identity. Struggles that force personal growth.

Answer 4 to move on to Act Four.

• What camp, hunt, or treck surprisingly fails?
• Who questions your motives and how do you challenge them?
• What failures cause self reflection?
• What challenges expose your potential for harmony, withdrawl, and brutality?
• What mistake forces you to reflect on your villainous inclinations?

Act Four:

Focus: The seemingly insurmountable internal struggle with sociability and to hunt the wild beast.

Answer 4 to move to The Climax

• How does your plan to hunt the wild beast take you even further into the wider unknown world?
• What false victory do you have against the wild beast and how do you discover that you haven’t won?
• How do you struggle to hunt the wild beast?
• What value or belief do you betray for a desperate false victory?
• How is the false victory hollow and how does it ruin your aims?
• What personal failure causes self reflection?

The Climax:

Focus: Crossing an inexorable threshold of the hunt

Answer this, win or lose, to move on to Act Five

• How do you finally, once and for all, end the hunt of the wild beast?

Act Five:

Focus: The lessons you learned about predation and understanding who you really are deep down

Answer all of the following that you’re curious about

• Do you embody your own identity, separate from your predatory instincts? How?
• Do you you love yourself more than the distance of the wild? How?
• Do you sacrifice your independance and embrace love? How?
• Are you empowered by love? How?