Ranger Favoured Enemies

[NickD]

I had a look for a list of what monsters are in each of the favoured enemies list for rangers, but the information I found was sketchy at best...

Stuff like Elves and Orcs are pretty self explanatory, but...

Does Dragon include Wyverns or just dragon dragons? If not, where do wyverns fit in? Magical beasts?
Goblinoids are goblins, hobgoblins and bugbears...? Anything else?
Where do gnolls fit in?
Giants include orges and trolls right? So what does that leave for montrous humanoids?
Reptilian Humanoids is just lizardmen and kobolds?
What are the NWN2 creatures in Aberrations? Monstrous Humanoids? Magical Beasts?

[HEEGZ]

http://nwn2.wikia.com/wiki/Favored_enemy

[NickD]

That would be the information I found sketchy at best. Very few of them have examples and there are several in that list that aren't actually NWN2 favoured enemies.

(Although it does answer the wyvern question (assuming it's actually correct), my bad)

[Kest]

I think Gnolls are considered Monstrous Humanoids.

[HEEGZ]

giants, ogres, and trolls are giants
aberrations are mind flayers, umberhulks, will o wisps
monstrous humanoids are annis, firenewt, gargoyle, green hag, hagspawn, uthraki, and yaun-ti.
magical beasts are celestial and fiendish animals, glow and phase spiders, and worgs

I'm not sure on the gnolls, etc. I've double checked in the DM client but it is too hard to tell how they are structured. I think it depends on the category selected for them in the toolset.

[HEEGZ]

Okay looking in the Toolset:

Gnolls are race: human
Gibberlings are race: goblin
Kobolds and lizardfolk are race: reptilian

Also, the monstrous humanoids above are classified as race: animal, beast, vermin, and monstrous humanoids !

The rest seemed pretty much what I expected them to be. Hope that helps.

[NickD]

Thanks!

Gnolls... humans? Is that why they don't show up on the survival skill radar?

[HEEGZ]

everyone knows the best ranger racial is elves

[Kest]

After looking up the SRD, apparently gnolls are considered Humanoid and you could specifically select them as a favored enemy. Since that doesn't seem to be the case in NWN2, should we try switching them to Monstrous Humanoids?

ps. the best favored enemy is humans

[Aelred]

for NWN2 specific info:

http://nwn2.wikia.com/wiki/Favored_enemy

Compiled from the toolset:
Aberration (mindflayer, umberhulk, will'o'wisp)
Animal (includes dire, domestic and wild animals)
Construct (blade golem, blade spider, clay golem, clockroach, homunculus, imaskari golem, iron golem, thayan golem)
Dragon (dragons and wyverns)
Elemental
Fey (dryad, pixie)
Giant (troll, giant, ogre)
Humanoid (aquatic, dwarf, elf, goblinoid, gnoll, gnome, halfling, human, orc, reptilian=kobalds&lizardmen)
Magical beast (celestial animals, fiendish animals, glow spider, phase spider, winter wolf, worg)
Monstrous humanoid (annis, firenewt, gargoyle, green hag, hagspawn, uthraki, yuan-ti)
Ooze
Outsider (angel, bladeling, demon, devil, djinni, fire mephit, hell hound, ice mephit, night hag, shadow mastiff, sylph)
Plant (shambling mound, treat)
Undead
Vermin (beetles and spiders (not rats which are animals))


I double checked the gnolls in both the vanilla toolset and the alfa creatures erf. They are definitely listed in both as humanoid with subrace human. ((The alfa creatures erf does have them classified as humanoid | gnoll. But the classified field is only for organizing where they appear in the toolset creatures list.))

[NickD]

for NWN2 specific info:

http://nwn2.wikia.com/wiki/Favored_enemy

Compiled from the toolset:
Aberration (mindflayer, umberhulk, will'o'wisp)
Animal (includes dire, domestic and wild animals)
Construct (blade golem, blade spider, clay golem, clockroach, homunculus, imaskari golem, iron golem, thayan golem)
Dragon (dragons and wyverns)
Elemental
Fey (dryad, pixie)
Giant (troll, giant, ogre)
Humanoid (aquatic, dwarf, elf, goblinoid, gnoll, gnome, halfling, human, orc, reptilian=kobalds&lizardmen)
Magical beast (celestial animals, fiendish animals, glow spider, phase spider, winter wolf, worg)
Monstrous humanoid (annis, firenewt, gargoyle, green hag, hagspawn, uthraki, yuan-ti)
Ooze
Outsider (angel, bladeling, demon, devil, djinni, fire mephit, hell hound, ice mephit, night hag, shadow mastiff, sylph)
Plant (shambling mound, treat)
Undead
Vermin (beetles and spiders (not rats which are animals))


I double checked the gnolls in both the vanilla toolset and the alfa creatures erf. They are definitely listed in both as humanoid with subrace human. ((The alfa creatures erf does have them classified as humanoid | gnoll. But the classified field is only for organizing where they appear in the toolset creatures list.))

Except there is no favoured enemy for:
Humanoid - Aquatic, Humanoid- Gnoll or Ooze in NWN2. While there are ones for Half-Elf, Half-Orc and Shapechanger. Which kind of makes the list unreliable.