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=== Favored Enemy Variant: Favored Environment ===

Instead of selecting a type of creature against which to apply a bonus on certain skills and damage rolls, the [[SRD:Ranger|ranger]] selects a specific natural environment and gains bonuses when in that environment.

At 1st level, a [[SRD:Ranger|ranger]] may select a natural environment from among those given on Table 2-3: [[SRD:Ranger|Ranger]] Favored Environments. Due to the [[SRD:Ranger|ranger]]'s experience in that environment, he gains a +2 bonus on [[SRD:Hide Skill|Hide]], [[SRD:Listen Skill|Listen]], [[SRD:Move Silently Skill|Move Silently]], [[SRD:Spot Skill|Spot]], and [[SRD:Survival Skill|Survival]] checks when using these skills in that environment. He also gains the same bonus on [[SRD:Knowledge Skill|Knowledge (nature)]] checks made in association with that environment ( or on [[SRD:Knowledge Skill|Knowledge (dungeoneering)]] checks made in association with underground environments, if the [[SRD:Ranger|ranger]] has selected underground as a favored environment).

At 5th level and every five levels thereafter (at 10th, 15th, and 20th level), the [[SRD:Ranger|ranger]] may select an additional favored environment from those given on the table and gains an identical bonus on the appropriate skill checks in that environment. In addition at each such interval, the bonuses in any one favored environment (including the one just selected, if so desired), increase by 2. For example, a 5th-level [[SRD:Ranger|ranger]] has two favored environments. In one he has a +4 bonus on the appropriate skill checks, and in the other he has a +2 bonus. At 10th level, he has three favored environments, and he gains an additional +2 bonus, which he can allocate to any of his three favored environments. Thus, his bonuses could be either +4, +4, and +2 or +6, +2, and +2.

If the [[SRD:Ranger|ranger]] chooses desert or forest, he must also choose a climatic type, as indicated on the table (either "cold" or "temperate or warm" for desert, or "cold or temperate" or "warm" for forest).

The DM can rule that a [[SRD:Ranger|ranger]] can't select an environment that he has never visited.

{| class="zebra d20" {{#vardefine: odd|0}}
|+ {{Anchor|Table2--3: Ranger Favored environments}}
! '''environment''' !! '''Examples'''   
|- 
| Aquatic || sea, ocean (on or under water)
|- 
| Desert, cold || tundra
|- 
| Desert, temperate or warm || badlands, sandy desert
|- 
| Forest, cold or temperate || forest
|- 
| Hills || rugged terrain up to 2,000 feet elevation
|- 
| Marsh || bog, moor, swamp
|- 
| Mountain || rugged terrain above 2,000 feet elevation
|- 
| Plains || farmland, grassland, steppe, prairie
|- 
| Underground || dungeons, caverns
|}

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