Ranger.. Bad idea?

[Spradle22]

First of all: Hello everyone! Thanks for reading this post. I am a returning player from about 15 years ago. I played the game as a kid and the Nostalgia has been to great to handle for the past few years. I just have to kill me some crushbone orcs. Downloaded EQ and it was ugly. I can almost stomach even POK and other releases, but all my old zones are dead. And the fact that I can buy a lvl 85 character really gets to me. So I found p99, and new I had come home.

Anyways, I am considering starting a Ranger but I am wondering about this penalty I have heard about?

What exactly is it? How severe is it? Thanks a lot! I don't remember too much from when I was 12, just that I loved the game.