Ranger

The ranger is one of the player classes in NetHack. Rangers can be either neutral or chaotic, and can be humans, elves, gnomes, or orcs.

Rangers can get expert in dagger, sling, dart, boomerang, javelin, bow and crossbow, and also in divination spells. Rangers can not use two-weapon combat.

Rangers have the searching intrinsic right from the XL 1. They get stealth on XL 7 and see invisible on XL 15.

Starting equipment

• +1 dagger
• +1 bow
• 50-59 +2 arrows
• 30-39 +0 arrows
• +2 cloak of displacement
• 4-8 cram rations

Elven and orcish rangers start with racial equipment (elven dagger or orcish dagger instead of dagger, etc.). Elves get an elven cloak instead of a cloak of displacement and lembas wafers in the place of cram rations. Orcish rangers get orcish bow and orcish arrows but still get a cloak of displacement. Chaotic rangers also have a small chance of their starting arrow stacks being generated poisoned.