Narrow roads, waterbars, rockslides in the road...the terrain here (the island) if you're on a non-maintained road tends to be slippery. If you're being nice to the truck, no worries. I have a stock f350 now, and I drag my side steps regularly.
Synthetic line is great IF you can protect it. Otherwise, your outside wrap gets loaded with grit which is essentially a million tiny blades inside your line, and gets damaged by UV. Most of the guys I wheel with run synthetic, but they replace lines every couple years. These aren't daily driven rigs, these are wheeling rigs, that get maybe 15 hours run time a month. They're garage kept in many cases. A daily driver will get road salt, sand, and a lot more exposure to weather. We have rough rocks that abrade lines, mud, grit, silt...I personally prefer cable (wire rope if you're talking to a winch company), for its durability. The major advantage to synthetic line is that if it snaps, it might leave a welt, but won't kill you. In the comp I organize (YouTube islandcup!), we require winch line weights if you run cable to help cut down on whipping broken cables.
I'm also a wheeler at heart. I take a stock truck into a lot of places that normal folks wouldn't, and a lot of the time guys on quads don't believe I drove to where I am, the same way they did. Also, my last "hunting truck" was affectionately known as crunchy. Probably you don't want your nice shiny truck to earn a name like that.
Here's the rundown on what this truck had:
Warn m8000 in a trailgear low profile bumper
2x3 steel tube rear bumper with a bumper mount swing out spare tire carrier
Lockright rear locker
235/85r16 load range E tires (I could have a full blown flat, and still drive on them because they were so stiff)
Tire chain's
That was it.
Nothing major, no lift, and it went anywhere I could reasonably ask it to. And several absolutely unreasonable places too.