Snake Bliskin-Escape from New York-LA

Allanon- Sword of Shanara

Arctuniol- Dragonrealms


Arctuniol

Knowledge is like manure, it's only good when spread.

Aragorn.

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Master Craftsman Thryntyrlz BagMaker steps out from under Caelfind's road-worn traveler's cloak.

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Tvini gets a Nilerbone brain from inside her canvas sack.
Tvini pokes her Nilerbone brain.
Nilerbone sneezes!

Roland - Dark Tower
Wolverine - duh?
Shane - Shane
Major Alan "Dutch" Schaefer - Predator
and pecos bill


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With a soft creak of hinges the iron door opens, and a small group of armed Elotheans march in. One of them looks around until he sees you and says, "It is time for judgment, Alexii." Silently, they haul you to your feet and march you out.

Raven from The Black Company

there's more but i can't think of them right now

-Vision et al

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Also, I can shoot bees.

Riddick - Chronicles of Riddick

The rangers Jalika identifies with....

Robin Hood (duh), the brothers from Boon Dock Saints, Slavomir Rawicz (check out his book, The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom), my cat, Two Rivers folk (WOT). Oh, and Ragran.

Jal

Ren (Forgotten Realms, Pool of Radiance/Pool of Darkness/Pool of Twilight). Drizz't Do'Urden. Aragorn. Tarzan/George of the Jungle. Mowgli. Anthony Hopkins's character in the movie Instinct. Grizzly Adams. Daniel Boone. Johnny Appleseed. Sacagawea/Lewis and Clark. Dr. Doolittle (he was a naturalist, after all), Charles Darwin, Dr. Livingston, Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt (he was a a Rough Rider, part of a group that later became the Army Rangers elite force). Stephen F. Austin (founder of the Texas Rangers). Cordell Walker (a Chuck Norris character). Jane Goodall.

J'Lo, I'm a ranger.. I'd believe anything.....
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The problem with history is that so few people exaggerate their position in the caste. Thus, you have thief ranger mage scholars who can carry a tune with the best of them and by necessity know more than a little about weapons (ie, power rangers).


J'Lo, I'm a ranger.. I'd believe anything.....
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i'd say riddick is more thief than ranger

If advice was any good, they wouldn't give it out for free.

Pitfall Harry

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http://www.drtanning.net

>>Pitfall Harry

Blast from the past. I remember my first Atari though I also remember the little machine with ping pong on it so....

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All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by frost.

Bear Grylls


-Galren Moonskin

Tusfaov calmly says, "Excellent. The inner fire burns bright within your chest, Galren. You have achieved a new level of enlightenment."

!>You hear the distant echo of a savage Horde screaming in barbaric approval of your deeds.

Hugh the Hand


~Artilius

Jim Bridger - another mountain man

mfberg

J'Lo, I am glad to know that someone else will know what I mean when I say it's a schpedoinkel day.

Now let's build a snowman...

Allanon from the Shannara series. Yeah he was a druid but still seemed very rangerly to me

<<Solid Snake is going to be the best Ranger example that you can come up with...especially in his most recent outing in Snake Eater. However what he does with a tranq gun, we do with a well placed snipe.>>

Solid Snake is one of my favorite visions of a ranger. He's a total solo, stealth survivor. Accomplished in many weapons, and fighting techniques, he's just a silent, deadly machine.

Naked Snake(from Snake Eater) is probably my favorite. He's the predacessor to Solid, so his tools are much less technological, and he's forced to survive with what he can find along the way, truely a ranger'ish feat. He gets dumped into missions with absolutely nothing but a knife, hence the code name "naked"(yes, he does have his clothes, just no gear).

I'm still surprised you couldn't stand the game Teek. I figured you'd have loved all the CQC, tranq'ing, sniping, and stealth. The story is awesome, and the stuff he goes through is just inspiring. There is also a good scene of FA usage, where he splints and bandages himself up from a near death experience.

Definitely, Naked Snake wins it for me on the vote for ranger'ness.


~Van

<<The two can be fairly similar in the modern era.>>

I can see that. I think the part that differs them sometimes is the reasons behind what they do, and if they're being used for offense or defense.

The ranger can be fairly different depending on his setting. In typical fantasy, he's the forest walker and wilderness fighter, in old medieval'ish settings they were the light armored soldiers and reconnaissance, in early american setting they were rugged outbackers and herd protectors, in the military they're light infantry, scouts, and pointmen. In each instance though, the ranger can be a raider or a guardian, depending on if they're being used for offense or defense.

I guess my visions of Snake as a ranger come from the solo survival aspect of him. Rambo was another good example. Aaron Hallam in the movie The Hunted was good too. Though that can be another example of how ranger and thief can be confused(I viewed him as more ranger).

~Van

>I guess my visions of Snake as a ranger come from the solo survival aspect of him.<

Yeah, the 3rd one where you have to trek through the wilderness was definitely more Rangery.

But even a Thief is solo-survival, just as you said.. in different settings. Infiltrating and surviving a high-tech (think locks and traps in ye olde DR) facility is something a Thief would need to be able to do. A lot of Snake's adventures remind me of Sam Fisher or Garrett, both of whom I consider to be in the Thief vein as well.

There's always going to be a great deal of overlap between the two guilds, and I'd prefer to embrace that where it makes sense but give each their own unique areas to expand upon too. I know there's the grumps of guild identities being diluted from time to time but I think we all know the frustrations that arrive from 'Nope, you can't have that, guild X got there first. Nyah nyah!' ;)

-Z

<<But even a Thief is solo-survival, just as you said.. in different settings. Infiltrating and surviving a high-tech (think locks and traps in ye olde DR) facility is something a Thief would need to be able to do. A lot of Snake's adventures remind me of Sam Fisher or Garrett, both of whom I consider to be in the Thief vein as well.>>

Definitely. I definitely see the high-tech, gadget and technology using very akin to thieves. Going along DR's route of things like the pipes the smoke bombs and other elements extracted from box traps. I'd really like to see that stuff expanded upon.

And as you said, there is going to naturally be a lot of overlap between the two guilds. It's always been that way with most fantasy. Most start you as a common rogue class, and later you take upon the thief/assassin path, or the ranger/hunter one.

I'd like to seem more survival based, ranger abilities sprout to life sometime too, combat included. Since combat is definitely an area where one's own life is often at stake.


~Van