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) a martial weapon
• (a) a dungeoneer’s pack or (b) an explorer’s pack
• A long bow and a quiver of 20 arrows

Natural Explorer

Beginning at the 1st level, you are adept at traversing the natural world. You gain the following benefits:

• Climbing and swimming do not cost you extra movement.
• You have advantage on Wisdom (Survival) checks

Hunter's Eye

Beginning at 1st level, as a bonus action, you can designate a creature you can see within 100 feet of you to mark it. Alternatively, when you attack a creature, you can mark the target of the attack. Regardless of how you mark an enemy, you can you use this ability only once during your turn. The target remains marked up up to 1 minute or until you use this feature again.

Once during your turn, you can make an additional weapon attack against the marked creature. You also have advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks to detect the marked creature.

You have a number of uses of this ability equal to half your ranger level (min 1), and regain all expended uses when you complete a long rest.

Fighting Style

At 2nd level, you adopt a particular style of fighting as your specialty. Choose one of the following options. You can’t take a Fighting Style option more than once, even if you later get to choose again.

Spellcasting

By the time you reach 2nd level, you have learned to use the magical essence of nature to cast spells, much as a druid does.

Wilderness Spells

Each ranger call of the wild has a list of associated spells. You gain access to these spells at the levels specified in the call of the wild description. Once you gain access to a wilderness spell, you always have it known. These spells don't count against the number of spells you know. If you gain a wilderness spell that doesn't appear on the ranger spell list, the spell is nonetheless a ranger spell for you.

Expertise

At 3rd level, choose two of your skill proficiencies. Your proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability check you make that uses either of the chosen proficiencies.

At 10th level, you can choose two more of your proficiencies to gain this benefit.

Ability Score Improvement

When you reach 4th level, and again at, 8th, 12th, 16th, and 19th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, you can't increase an ability score above 20 using this feature.

Extra Attack

Starting at the 5th level, when you take the attack action you can make two attacks.

Primal Instinct

By 6th level, you have advantage on initiative rolls. Additionally, even when you are engaged in another activity while traveling (such as foraging, navigating, or tracking), you remain alert to danger.

Land's Stride

Starting at 8th level, moving through non-magical difficult terrain costs you no extra movement. You can also pass through non-magical plants without being slowed by them and without taking damage from them if they have thorns, spines, or a similar hazard.

In addition, you have advantage on saving throws against plants that are magically created or manipulated to impede movement.

Hunter's Eye Improvement

By the 10th level, you act decisively to take down your foes. Your weapon attacks deal bonus damage equal to your Wisdom modifier (min 1).

Additionally, add this bonus to all saving throws made against effects created by creatures marked by Hunter's Eye.

Resilient

By the 14th level, you have gained greater physical fortitude. You gain proficiency in Constitution saving throws.

Feral Senses

At the 18th level, you gain preternatural senses that help you fight creatures you can't see. You are aware of the location of any invisible creature within 30 feet of you, provided that the creature isn't hidden from you and you aren't blinded or deafened.

When you attack a creature you can't see, your inability to see it doesn't impose disadvantage on your attack rolls against it.

Master of the Hunt

At the 20th level, as an action you can regain half of your expended uses of Hunter's Eye (rounded up). Once you use this feature you must take a long rest before you can use it again.

Call of the Wild

The ideal of the ranger has three classic expressions: Call of the Slayer, Call of the Beast Kin, and Call of the Huntsman

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 and charmed.

Decimate

At 11th level, as an action you can choose a point you can see within 60 feet of you. Until the end of your turn, you can make a single weapon attack against each creature within a 10 foot radius of that point. Make each attack as normal, with a separate attack roll for each target. You must have ammunition for ranged weapon attacks.

Superior 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.

Call of the Beast Kin

The Beast Kin embodies a partnership between the civilized races and the beasts of the world. United in focus, beast and ranger work as one to survive.

Companion’s Bond

Your animal companion gains a variety of benefits while it is linked to you.

On your initiative, you can have your companion move up to its speed as well as take an action, separate from your own action. Your companion however loses its Multiattack action, if it has one. If you are incapacitated or absent, your companion acts on its own to defend itself and you.

Your animal companion has abilities and game statistics determined in part by your level. Your companion uses your proficiency bonus rather than its own. An animal companion also adds your proficiency bonus to its unarmored AC and has proficiency in all saving throws. If any of its abilities include a DC saving throw, its DC is replaced by your spell save DC.

Your animal companion also gains proficiency in up to two skills of your choice, if it does not have proficiencies already. Choose from the following: Intimidation, Performance, Stealth, Acrobatics, Athletics, Perception or Survival.

For each level you gain after 3rd, your animal companion gains an additional hit die and increases its hit points accordingly.

Whenever you gain the Ability Score Improvement class feature, your companion’s abilities also improve. Your companion can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or it can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, your companion can’t increase an ability score above 20 using this feature unless its description specifies otherwise.

Combat Adaptation

At 7th level, while your companion can see you, it has advantage on all saving throws. Additionally, its attacks count as magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage.

Storm of Claws and Fangs

At 11th level, your companion can use its action to make a melee attack against each creature of its choice within its reach, with a separate attack roll for each target.

Beastly Coordination

Starting at 15th level, when an attacker that you can see hits your beast companion with an attack, you can call out a warning. If your beast companion can hear you, it can use its reaction to halve the attack’s damage against it.

Call of the Huntsman

Huntsmens are skilled trackers and can be instrumental in the acquisition of elusive prey. Walking this path means using stealth and terrain to your advantage to swiftly take down your enemies.

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