Think it’s a decent workaround that we can assume the parasites can “read” our thoughts and know the plan from the start, so would just stick around knowing they’ll be good.

This is my first entry into anything D&D / 5e honestly and the lack of identity kind of drew me to the ranger, I wanted to go for a melee front fighter but the barbarian and warrior trees seemed a bit too focused

Beast master ranger with the heavy armour proficiency ended up being the “do anything” class when I swapped between a couple

I’ve been having fun with my Ranger with a heavy armour build but this article does make a class change tempting!