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Originally Posted by Niara
I suspect they've done this because the favoured enemy text is about recalling information about your targets... so they went with information-based skills.

Yes, here's some rational from the 5th edition that I just looked up, following your reply (thanks):
https://5thsrd.org/character/classes/ranger/#ranger-archetypes
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You have advantage on Wisdom (Survival) checks to track your favored enemies, as well as on Intelligence checks to recall information about them.


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Originally Posted by Niara
You're correct in that it is a weird way to handle it, and it's not particularly fitting.
ok, so let's jump on the 5e forum and have that changed laugh

-S

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