Deadly Hunters

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Warriors of the wilderness, rangers specialize in hunting the monsters that threaten the edges of civilization—humanoid raiders. rampaging beasts and monstrosities, terrible giants, and deadly dragons. They learn to track their quarry as a predator does, moving stealthily through the wilds and hiding themselves in brush and rubble. Rangers focus their combat training on techniques that are particularly useful against their specific favored foes.

Thanks to their familiarity with the wilds, rangers acquire the ability to cast spells that harness nature's power, much as a druid does. Their spells, like their combat abilities, emphasize speed, stealth, and the hunt. A ranger's talents and abilities are honed with deadly focus on the grim task of protecting the borderlands.

Independent Adventurers

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Though a ranger might make a living as a hunter, a guide, or a tracker, a ranger's true calling is to defend the outskirts of civilization from the ravages of monsters and humanoid hordes that press in from the wild. In some places, rangers gather in secretive orders or join forces with druidic circles. Many rangers, though, are independent almost to a fault, knowing that, when a dragon or a band of ores attacks, a ranger might be the first — and possibly the last — line of defense.

Creating a Ranger

As you create your ranger character, consider the nature of the training that gave you your particular capabilities. Did you train with a single mentor, wandering the wilds together until you mastered the ranger's ways? Did you leave your apprenticeship, or was your mentor slain — perhaps by the same kind of monster that became your favored enemy? Or perhaps you learned your skills as part of a band of rangers affiliated with a druidic circle, trained in mystic paths as well as wilderness lore. You might be self-taught, a recluse who learned combat skills, tracking, and medicine through the necessity of surviving in the wilds.

What's the source of your particular hatred of a certain kind of enemy? Did a monster kill someone you loved or destroy your home village? Or did you see too much of the destruction these monsters cause and commit yourself to reining in their depredations?

Hit Points

Hit Dice: 1d10 per Ranger level
Hit Points at 1st Level: 10 + your Constitution modifier
Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d10 (or 6) + your Constitution modifier per Ranger level after 1st

Proficiencies

Armor: Light Armor, Medium Armor, Shields
Weapons: Simple weapons, Martial Weapons
Tools: None

Saving Throws: Strength and Dexterity
Skills: Choose three from Animal Handling, Athletics, Insight, Investigation, Nature, Perception, Stealth, and Survival

Equipment

You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background;

• (a) scale mail or (b) leather armor

• (a) two shortswords or (b) two simple melee weapons

• (a) a dungeoneer's pack or (b) an explorer's pack

• A longbow and a quiver of 20 arrows

Favored Enemy

Beginning at 1st level, you have significant experience studying, tracking, hunting, and even talking to a certain type of enemy.

Choose a type of favored enemy: beast, fey, humanoid, monstrosity, plant, or undead.

You gain +2 to all damage rolls against the chosen type of enemies, and you have advantage on all Wisdom (Survival) checks to track your favored enemy, and Intelligence checks to recall information about them.

When you gain this feature, you also learn one language of your choice that is spoken by your favored enemies, if they speak one at all.

At level 14, you choose another favored enemy from the ones you didn't choose, or choose one of the following types: dragon, giant, aberration, fiend, celestial, ooze, or construct. You gain all the benefits from your favored enemy against this type as well. As you gain levels, your choice should reflect the types of monsters you have encountered on your adventures.

Natural Explorer

You are particularly familiar with one type of natural environment and are adept at traveling and surviving in such regions. Choose one type of favored terrain: arctic, coast, desert, forest, grassland, mountain, swamp, or the Underdark. When you are in your favored terrain, you gain the following benefits:

• You ignore difficult terrain.

• You have advantage on initiative rolls.

• On the first turn of initiative, you have advantage on attack rolls against creatures that have not yet acted.

While traveling for an hour or more in your favored terrain, you gain the following benefits:

• Difficult terrain doesn't slow your group's travel.

• Your group can't become lost except by magical means.

• Even when you are engaged in another activity while traveling (such as foraging, navigating, or tracking), you remain alert to danger.

• If you are traveling alone, you can move stealthily at a normal pace. When you forage, you find twice as much food as you normally would.

• While tracking other creatures, you also learn their exact number, their sizes, and how long ago they passed through the area.

Survivor's Tricks

From your time spent learning to survive, you have begun to learn certain tricks - talents that you can employ to keep yourself and your allies alive.

At 2nd level, you gain two tricks of your choice. Your trick options are detailed at the end of the class description. When you gain certain ranger levels, you gain additional tricks of your choice, as shown in the tricks known column of the ranger class table.

Additionally, when you gain a level with this class, you can choose to replace one of your tricks you know with a new one that you could learn.

Some of your tricks require your target to make a saving throw to resist the trick’s effects. The saving throw DC is calculated as follows:

Trick save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Strength or Dexterity modifier (your choice)

Poultices

Starting at 2nd level, you can create special herbal poultices that have healing power comparable to some potions. During a long rest, you can spend 1 hour gathering herbs and preparing herbal poultices using treated bandages to create a number of such poultices equal to your wisdom modifier, and you can only have an amount equal to your wisdom modifier. You are the only one with the training to apply your bandages to heal others - and your poultices lose their potency after 24 hours.

If you spend 1 minute applying one of your poultices to a wounded creature, that creature regains 1d6 hit points for every two ranger levels you have, rounded down. Your poultices improve as you level up. When you reach 6th level, you add your Wisdom modifier to the total amount healed from your poultice. At 17th level, you add your ranger level to the total amount healed.

Archery

You gain a +2 bonus to attack rolls you make with ranged weapons.

Defense

While you are wearing armor, you gain a +1 bonus to AC.

Dueling

When you are wielding a melee weapon in one hand and no other weapons. you gain a +2 bonus to damage rolls with that weapon.

Mariner

While not wearing armor or using a shield, you gain swim and climb speed equal to your base movement speed, and you gain +1 AC.

Two-Weapon Fighting

When you engage in two-weapon fighting, you can add your ability modifier to the damage of the second attack.

Beast Conclave

Many rangers are more at home in the wilds than in civilization, to the point where animals consider them kin. Rangers of the Beast Conclave develop a close bond with a beast - then forge that bound though training and hardships.

Hunter's Prey

At 3rd level, you gain one of the following features of your choice.

Colossus Slayer. Your tenacity can wear down the most potent foes. When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, the creature takes an extra 1d8 damage if it's below its hit points maximum. You can deal this extra damage only once per turn.

Giant Killer. When a Large or larger creature within 5 feet of you hits or misses you with an attack, you can use your reaction to attack that creature immediately after its attack, provided that you can see the creature.

Horde Breaker. Once on each of your turns when you make a weapon attack, you can make another attack with the same weapon against a different creature that is within 5 feet of the original target and within range of your weapon.

Defensive Tactics

At 7th level, you gain one of the following features of your choice.

Escape the Horde. Opportunity attacks against you are made with disadvantage.

Multiattack Defense. When a creature hits you with an attack, you gain a +4 bonus to AC against all subsequent attacks made by that creature for the rest of the turn.

Steel Will. You have advantage on saving throws against being frightened.

Multiattack

At 11th level, you gain one of the following features of your choice.

Volley. You can use your action to make a ranged attack against any number of creatures within 10 feet of a point you can see within your weapon's range. You must have ammunition for each target, as normal, and you make a separate attack roll for each target.

Whirlwind Attack. You can use your action to make a melee attack against any number of creatures within 5 feet of you. with a separate attack roll for each target.

Superior Hunter's Defense

At 15th level, you gain one of the following features of your choice.

Evasion. You can nimbly dodge out of the way of certain area effects, such as a red dragon's fiery breath or a lightning bolt spell. When you are subjected to an effect that allows you to make a Dexterity saving throw to take only half damage, you instead take no damage if you succeed on the saving throw, and only half damage if you fail.

Stand Against the Tide. When a hostile creature misses you with a melee attack, you can use your reaction to force that creature to repeat the same attack against another creature (other than itself) of your choice.

Uncanny Dodge. When an attacker that you can see hits you with an attack, you can use your reaction to halve the attack's damage against you.

Dread Ambusher

At 3rd level, you master the art of the ambush. You can give yourself a bonus to your initiative rolls equal to your Wisdom modifier.

At the start of your first turn of each combat, your walking speed increases by 10 feet, which lasts until the end of that turn. If you take the Attack action on that turn, you can make one additional weapon attack as part of that action. If that attack hits, the target takes an extra ld8 damage of the weapon's damage type.

Umbral Sight

At 3rd level, you gain dark vision out to a range of 60 feet. If you already have dark vision from your race, its range increases by 30 feet.

You are also adept at evading creatures that rely on dark vision. While in darkness, you a re invisible to any creature that relies on dark vision to see you in that darkness.

Iron Mind

By 7th level, you have honed your ability to resist the mind-altering powers of your prey. You gain proficiency in Wisdom saving throws. If you already have this proficiency, you instead gain proficiency in Intelligence or Charisma saving throws (your choice).

Stalker's Flurry

At 11th level, you learn to attack with such unexpected speed that you can turn a miss into another strike. Once on each of your turns when you miss with a weapon attack, you can make another weapon attack as part of the same action.

Stalker's Dodge

Starting at 15th level, you can dodge in unforeseen ways, with wisps of supernatural shadow around you.

Whenever a creature makes an attack roll against you and doesn't have advantage on the roll, you can use your reaction to impose disadvantage on it. You must use this feature before you know the outcome of the attack roll.

Invoke the Spirit

At 3rd level, when you adopt this path, you choose a totem spirit and gain its feature. You must make or acquire a physical totem object - an amulet or similar adornment — that incorporates fur or feathers, claws, teeth, or bones of the totem animal. At your option. you also gain minor physical attributes that are reminiscent of your totem spirit. For example. if you have a hear totem spirit, you might be unusually hairy and thick skinned, or if your totem is the eagle, your eyes turn bright yellow.

Your totem animal might be an animal related to those listed here but more appropriate to your homeland. For example, you could choose a hawk or vulture in place of an eagle.

You can use a bonus action to invoke your spirit, gaining one of the following benefits. You can only invoke your spirit an amount of times equal to your Wisdom modifier every long rest.

Ape: For the rest of your turn, you add your Wisdom modifier to attack and damage rolls with thrown weapons.

Bear: Either you or an ally that you can see gain temporary hit points equal to 2d6 + your Wisdom modifier.

Boar: If you move at least 10 feet in a straight line and make a successful melee attack against a creature the same size as you, you knock that creature prone.

Eagle: Target a creature within your weapon's range. For the rest of your turn your attacks against that creature are made at advantage.

Wolf: Either you or an ally you can see deal an additional 1d6 + your Wisdom modifier slashing damage on their next weapon attack.

Aspect of the Spirit

At 7th level, you gain a magical benefit based on the spiritual animal of your choice. You can choose the same animal you selected at 3rd level or a different one.

Ape: You gain a climb speed equal to 30 feet.

Bear: You gain the might of a bear. Your carrying capacity (including maximum load and maximum lift) is doubled, and you have advantage on Strength checks made to push, pull. lift, or break objects.

Boar:

Eagle: You gain the eyesight of an eagle. You can see up to 1 mile away with no difficulty, able to discern even fine details as though looking at something no more than 100 feet away from you. Additionally, dim light doesn't impose disadvantage on your Wisdom (Perception) checks.

Wolf: You gain the grace of a wolf. Your movement speed increases by 10 feet. In addition, You gain proficiency in two

Spiritual Strikes

Starting at level 11, you can use your action to channel your chosen spirit into a weapon. If the weapon is not magical it now counts as magical. You can imbue a spirit into a magical weapon if desired. You also gain the following benefits depending on your chosen spirit.

Your spirit can transform into a weapon twice per long rest, and the transformation lasts for 5 minutes.

Ape: All weapons count as thrown weapons of 30/60 feet. At the end of your turn all thrown weapons return to you if you have a free hand.

Bear: When you deal damage with the imbued weapon, heal for half of the damage done. This can only be done once per turn.

Boar: Whenever you land an attack with the imbued weapon, you knock the target back by 5 feet and move up to them without provoking opportunity attacks. This does not count towards your maximum movement each turn.

Eagle: Your weapon gains the light property, and you reduce all fall damage by your Wisdom modifier + your Ranger level.

Wolf: All of your weapon attacks deal an additional 1d4 damage - the damage is the same type the weapon deals.

Spiritual Attunement

At 15th level, When you are in your favored terrain, you gain a magical benefit based on a spiritual animal of your choice. You can choose the same animal you selected previously or a different one.

Ape: While you're in your favored terrain, if you grapple a creature, that creature is also restrained by you, as you force them into a spot that can't move around in.

Bear: While you're in your favored terrain, any creature within 5 feet of you that's hostile to you has disadvantage on attack rolls against targets other than you or another character with this feature. An enemy is immune to this effect if it can't see or hear you or if it can't be frightened.

Boar: While you're in your favored terrain, you can use a bonus action on your turn to knock a Large or smaller creature prone when you hit it with melee weapon attack.

Eagle: While in your favored terrain, you have a flying speed equal to your current walking speed. This benefit works only in short bursts; you fall if you end your turn in the air and nothing else is holding you aloft.

Wolf: While you're in your favored terrain, if you make a melee weapon attack against a creature while an ally is within 5 feet of it, you can use a bonus action to make an additional melee weapon attack against it.

Alarm

Over the course of one minute, you set an alarm against unwanted intrusion. Choose a door, a window, or an area within range that is no larger than a 20-foot cube. For the next 8 hours, an alarm alerts you whenever a Tiny or larger creature touches or enters the warded area.

The alarm produces an audible ringing for 10 seconds that can be heard by everyone within 60 feet.

Archer's Gambit

Prerequisite: 18th level

As a bonus action, you prepare your quiver and mentally concentrate on your weapon. On each of your turns until the trick ends, you can use a bonus action to make two attacks with a weapon that uses ammunition from the quiver. The trick lasts for 1 minute, but you must concentrate on the effect.

You can only manage this feat once per long rest - more would be too taxing on your body.

Bear Trap

As an action you can place a bear trap within 5 feet of you and camouflage it. When a creature moves within the trap's space, it triggers, dealing 2d6 damage piercing, and they are grappled until they pass a Strength check. A Wisdom (Perception) check can be made by creatures to attempt to see the trap. Each bear trap costs 5 copper.

Beast Speech

Prerequisite: Spirit Conclave

Using your spirit, you can speak with beasts. They can understand you and can understand them. This does not grant you any special friendship with beasts, though you can combine it with gifts to gain it's friendship.

Chameleon

Prerequisite: 6th level

You add your wisdom modifier to any Dexterity (Stealth) checks you make.

Concealed Ambushers

Prerequisite: 14th level

You can use your Hide in Plain Sight feature on other creatures. Doing so takes twice as long, and anyone attempting to hide must be more than 15 feet away from anyone else that is attempting to hide.

Dart Trap

As an action you can place this trap within 5 feet of you, or on a door, gate, or window. When the space is stepped into, or the door, gate, or window opened, the trap is triggered, sending 3 darts at the creature that triggered the trap. Each dart uses your attack bonus, and deals 1d4 piercing damage. You can also use your bonus action to apply poison on the darts, dealing the poison's effects. Materials for each Dart trap cost 1 silver.

Efficient Harvester

When you make your poultices, you are able to craft 2 more, and your maximum amount of poultices increases by 2.

Ferocious Beast

Prerequisite: Beast Conclave, 14th level

Your animal companion regains it's multiattack feature. It must make those attacks against the same target.

Graceful Decent

You can use your reaction when you fall to reduce any falling damage you take by an amount equal to three times your ranger level.

Guardian of Nature

Prerequisite: 18th level

Once per week, you can preform a ritual which summons a Treant to fight by your side.

Hidden Strike

Prerequisite: Stalker Conclave

When attacking a creature that cannot see you, you can imbue your attack with a small amount of illusion magic to disguise your location. You do not give away your location on a missed attack.

Hidden Face

Prerequisite: Stalker Conclave

Adept at hiding in plain sight, you can make yourself--including your clothing, armor, weapons, and other belongings on your person--look different until the trick ends or until you use your action to displace it. To discern that you are disguised, a creature can use its action to inspect your appearance and must succeed on an Intelligence (Investigation) check against your trick save DC.

Hunter's Quarry

You choose a creature you can see within range and mark it as your quarry. Until the trick ends, you deal an extra 1d4 damage to the target whenever you hit it with a weapon attack, and you have advantage on any Wisdom (Perception) or Wisdom (Survival) check you make to find it. If the target drops to 0 hit points before this trick ends, you can use a bonus action on a subsequent turn of yours to mark a new creature.

This trick requires concentration, and the effect will last for as long as you can hold the concentration on it.

Knowledge of the Ancients

Prerequisite: Spirit Conclave

Once per day, you can choose a skill, tool, or language. As an action, you can call on your spirit animal. Your animal will impart the wisdom of the ancient tribes to give you proficiency with what you choose for 10 minutes.

Minions of Nature

Prerequisite: 14th level

When you use your Natural Allies feature, the beasts you summon have more health. Each of the beasts have additional hit points equal to your ranger level.

Quick Step

Your movement speed increases by 10 feet.