# The Ranger, Re-Revised ## Class features As a ranger, you gain the following class features. #### Hit Points <b>Hit Dice:</b> 1d10 per ranger level <br><b>Hit Points at 1st Level:</b> 10 + your Constitution modifier <br>**Hit Points at Higher Levels:** 1d10(or 6) + your Constitution modifier per ranger level after 1st #### Profocoencies **Armor** Light Armor, medium armor, shields <br>**Weapons** Simple weapons, martial weapons <br>**Tools** None <p><b>Saving Throws</b> Strength , Dexterity <br> <b>Skills:</b> Choose three from Animal Handling, Athletics, Insight, Investigation, Nature, Perception, Stealth, Survival #### Equipment You start with thye 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) dungeoneer's pack or (b) an explorer's pack * A longbow and a quiver with 20 arrows ### Favored Enemy Beginning at 1st level, you have significant experience studying, tracking, hunting, and even talking to a certain type of enemy commonly encountered in the wilds. Choose one of the following creature types: Beast, Fey, Humanoid, Monstrosity, or Undead. These type of creatures are your favored enemy. Against your favored enemy, you gain advantage on Wisdom (Survival) checks to track your enemy, as well as on Intelligence checks to recall information about them. Additionally, you learn an additional language. If possible, it should be a language that your favored enemy speaks. Your DM will have this information. ### Natural Explorer You are particularly familiar in one type of natural environment. Choose one type of terrain: arctic, coast, desert, forest, grassland, mountain, swamp, the Underdark, or Urban. This is your favored terrain. Whenever you make an Intelligence or Wisdom check related to your favored terrain, your proficiency bonus is doubled if you are using a skill you are proficient in. You also gain the following benefits while in your favored terrain: * You have advantage on initiative rolls * You have advantage on attack rolls against creatures that have not acted yet if you enter combat while in your favored terrain. * Other creatures do not gain advantage on attack rolls as a result of being hidden. * While tracking other creatures, you can learn their exact number, their sizes, and how long ago they passed through the area You gain an additional favored terrain at 6th level, and again at 10th. In addition, you are quite skilled at exploring the natural world at large. After traveling for an hour or more, you gain the following benefits: * Difficult terrain doesn't slow your group's travel * Your group cannot become lost except by magical means * You remain alert to danger, even while engaging in other activities such as foraging, navigating, or tracking. * If you are traveling alone, you can move stealthily at your normal pace * When you forage, you find twice as much food as normally would ### Fighting Style At 2nd level, you adopt a particular style of fighting as your specialty. Choose one of the following options: Archery, Defense, Dueling, or Two-Weapon Fighting. You can't take a Fighting Style option more than once, even if you later get to choose again. #### 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. #### Two-Weapon Fighting When you engage in two-weapon fighting, you can add your ability modifier to the damage of the second attack. ### 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. See chapter 10 of the Player’s Handbook for the general rules of spellcasting and chapter 11 for the ranger spell list. #### Spell Slots The Ranger table shows how many spell slots you have to cast your spells of 1st level and higher. To cast one of these spells, you must expend a slot of the spell's level or higher. You regain all expended spell slots when you finish a long rest. For example, if you know the 1st-level spell *animal friendship* and have a 1st-level and a 2nd-level spell slot available, you can cast *animal friendship* using either slot. \pagebreak <div class='classTable wide'> ##### Ranger, Re-revised | Level | Proficiency Bonus | Features | Spells Known | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | |:---:|:---:|:---|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:| | 1st | +2 | Favored Enemy, Natural Explorer | - | - | - | - | - | - | | 2nd | +2 | Fighting Style, Spellcasting | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | - | | 3rd | +2 | Archetype, Primeval Awareness | 3 | 3 | - | - | - | - | | 4th | +2 | Ability Score Improvement | 3 | 3 | - | - | - | - | | 5th | +3 | Extra Attack | 4 | 4 | 2 | - | - | - | | 6th | +3 | Improved Favored Enemy, Natural Explorer Improvement | 4 | 4 | 2 | - | - | - | | 7th | +3 | Archetype Feature | 5 | 4 | 3 | - | - | - | | 8th | +3 | Ability Score Improvement, Land's Stride | 5 | 4 | 3 | - | - | - | | 9th | +4 | - | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | - | - | | 10th | +4 | Hide in Plain Sight, Natural Explorer Improvement | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | - | - | | 11th | +4 | Archetype Feature | 7 | 4 | 3 | 3 | - | - | | 12th | +4 | Ability Score Improvement | 7 | 4 | 3 | 3 | - | - | | 13th | +5 | Ability | 8 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | - | | 14th | +5 | Improved Favored Enemy, Vanish | 8 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | - | | 15th | +5 | Archetype Feature | 9 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | - | | 16th | +5 | Ability Score Improvement | 9 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | - | | 17th | +6 | - | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | | 18th | +6 | Feral Senses | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | | 19th | +6 | Ability Score Improvement | 11 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | | 20th | +6 | Foe Slayer | 11 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | </div> <div></div> #### Spells Known of 1st Level and Higher You know two 1st-level spells of your choice from the ranger spell list. The Spells Known column of the Ranger table shows when you learn more ranger spells of your choice. Each of these spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots. For instance, when you reach 5th level in this class, you can learn one new spell of 1st or 2nd level. Additionally, when you gain a level in this class, you can choose one of the ranger spells you know and replace it with another spell from the ranger spell list, which also must be of a level for which you have spell slots. #### Spellcasting Ability Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for your ranger spells, since your magic draws on your attunement to nature. You use yourWisdom whenever a spell refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your Wisdom modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a ranger spell you cast and when making an attack roll with one. **Spell save DC** = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Wisdom modifier **Spell attack modifier** = your proficiency bonus + your Wisdom modifier \columnbreak ### Primeval Awareness Beginning at 3rd level, your mastery of ranger lore allows you to establish a powerful link to beasts and to the land around you. You have an innate ability to communicate with beasts. Through sounds and gestures, you can communicate simple ideas to a beast as an action, and can read its basic mood and intent. You learn its emotional state, whether it is affected by magic of any sort, its short-term needs (such as food or safety), and actions you can take (if any) to persuade it to not attack. You cannot use this ability against a creature that you have attacked within the past hour Additionally, you may use your connection to the natural world to gain an awareness of the world around you. You can use an action to discern whether or not any of the following creatures are within a mile of you: abberations, celestials, dragons, elementals, fey, fiends, or undead. This distance is increased to 5 miles within your favored terrain. If you concentrate on this ability (as if concentrating on a spell) for one minute, you may choose one of the above creature types and learn the following information: the general direction towards the nearest creature of the chosen type and the amount of creatures of that type within the range. You may use this feature a number of times per day equal to your Wisdom ability modifier (minimum once). \pagebreak ### 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 Beginning at 5th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn. ### Improved Favored Enemy At 6th level and again at 14th level, you may choose an additional favored enemy as well as an associated language. It may be any of the creature types listed above or one of the following: aberrations, celestials, constructs, dragons, elementals, fiends, or giants. Additionally, your weapon attacks score a critical hit on a 19 or 20 against your favored enemies. If your weapon attacks already score a critical hit on a 19 or 20, they now score a critical hit on an 18, 19, or 20 against your favored enemy. ### Land's Stride Starting at 8th level, moving through nonmagical difficult terrain costs you no extra movement. You can also pass through nonmagical inanimate plants and natural hazards without being slowed by them or taking any bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing damage form them, if they would deal any. While in your favored terrain, you can also dash as a bonus action. In addition, you have advantage on saving throws against plants that are magically created or manipulated to impede movement, such as those created by the <i>entangle</i> spell. ### Hide in Plain Sight Starting at 10th level, you've learned to remain motionless to blend in with your surroundings. You can spend one minute making a very basic camouflage for yourself. You must have access to natural materials, like dirt, leaves, or soot, or materials that blend with your current environment. Once completed whenever you take the hide action you may opt to not move. You may then add +10 to your Dexterity(Stealth) check to remain hide or remain hidden as long as you remain motionless and take no actions other than Hide or Search. After you move or take an action other than hide or search, you must use camouflage yourself again to regain this benefit. ### Vanish Starting at 14th level, you can use the Hide action as a bonus action on your turn. Also, you can't be tracked by nonmagical means, unless you choose to leave a trail. ### Feral Senses At 18th level, you gain preternatural senses that help you fight creatures you can't see. When you attack a creature you can't see, your inability to see it doesn't impose disadvantage on your attack rolls against it. You are also 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. ### Foe Slayer At 20th level, you become an unparalleled hunter. Once on each of your turns, you can add your Wisdom modifier to the attack roll or the damage roll of an attack you make against one of your favored enemies. You can choose to use this feature before or after the roll, but before any effects of the roll are applied. ## Ranger Archetype A ranger typically trains into one of two paths, called archetypes. ### Beast Companion This archetype of ranger has formed a powerful bond with a beast of the wild, such as one that saved or was saved by the ranger, or perhaps a beast that the ranger raised. When the ranger takes this archetype, the beast finds them again, and they learn to work as one #### Beast Companion Magic Starting at 3rd level, you learn an additional spell at certain levels in this class, as shown in the Beast Companion Spells table below. The spell counts as a ranger spell for you, but does not count against the number of ranger spells you know. ##### Beast Companion Spells | Ranger Level | Spell | |:---:|:-----------:| | 3rd | *Speak with Animals* | | 5th | *Enhance Ability* | | 9th | *Protection from Energy* | | 13th | *Polymorph* | | 17th | *Awaken* | #### Kindred Spirit When you take this archetype at 3rd level, you gain the service of a beast companion that you are magically bonded to. With 8 hours of meditation and work, and the expenditure of 10 gp worth of herbs and fine food, you call forth or an animal to serve as your companion. Normally the beast would be a creature of the Beast type, that is medium sized or smaller, and is CR 1/2 or less. You can only have one animal companion at a time. If your companion dies, you can resurrect it by meditating over it for 1 hour, and expending 50 gp worth of herbs and fine food. When the beast returns to life, it is at 1 hp, and retains its bond to you. If you called a new companion before bringing your old one back to life, your bond with the new companion ends, and the beast returns home. \pagebreak Your beast companion is slightly stronger than others of its kind. Your beast adds your proficiency bonus to its AC and damage rolls, and its intelligence score increased to 3, unless it was already 3 or higher. Additionally, at 4th level and every 2nd level after that (6th, 8th, 10th, etc.), your companion gains an additional hit die and increases it max hp as per normal rules for leveling up. Whenever you gain an ability score increase, you beast companion may also increase an ability score by 2, or two ability scores by 1. If You companion gains an intelligence of 6 or higher, it learns to understand one language of your choice. In combat, your beast waits for you to direct it. It acts on your turn, and can move at your direction without any action on your part. You can spend an action to command your beast to take the Attack, Dash, Disengage, Dodge, Help, Hide, or search actions. If you do not give it a command, the beast will take its default action, normally dodge. You can command your beast to take a reaction, such as an opportunity attack, without expending your action or reaction. #### Bonded Mind You and your companion share a special bond. As an action, you enter your beast's mind, gaining the benefit of any special senses the beast may have, seeing, hearing, smelling, and controlling your beast as if you were your beast. Your normal body is blind, deaf, and paralyzed while you are in your beast's mind. You can return to your normal body as an action. If your companion dies while you are in its mind, you immediately return to your normal body and are stunned for one minute. If your body dies while you are in your beast's mind, you immediately leave your beast's mind and pass on to wherever your soul would normally go or not go, and your beast becomes under your DM's control, just as it would if you dies normally. #### Companion's Mark At 3rd level, you can direct your beast's focus onto a particular foe. As a bonus action, you can designate a target within 60 feet of you. Until you mark a new target as a bonus action, dismiss the mark, or the target dies, your best companion's default action will be to attack the target if it can reach the target with its remaining movement, or the dash action to move towards the target if it cannot. The beast must be able to see the marked target, or its default action remains as dodge. This benefit ends if you take a short or long rest. #### Mystical Nature At 7th level, your beast has grown attuned to the mystical world. Its natural weapons (Such as claws, fangs, etc.) are considered magical for the purposes of overcoming damage resistance. #### Together as one At 11th level, you and your beast have learned to work so well together, that you are able to magically swap positions with it. If you can see you beast and you are within 120 feet of them, you can do one of three abilities: * Switch: You and your beast both teleport to each other's location. * Summon: You can teleport your beast to an unoccupied space adjacent to you. * Jump: You teleport yourself to an unoccupied space adjacent to your beast. One you use one of these abilities, you cannot use any until you finish a short or long rest. #### Magical Tether At 15th level, whenever a spell is cast on you you, including self-only spells, you can extend the magic to your beast companion, granting the beast the effects of the spell as well. ### Hunter Emulating the Hunter archetype means accepting your place as a bulwark between civilization and the terrors of The Wilderness. As you walk the Hunter’s path, you learn specialized techniques for fighting the threats you face, from rampaging ogres and hordes of orcs to towering Giants and terrifying Dragons. #### Hunter Magic Starting at 3rd level, you learn an additional spell at certain levels in this class, as shown in the Hunter Spells table below. The spell counts as a ranger spell for you, but does not count against the number of ranger spells you know. ##### Hunter Spells | Ranger Level | Spell | |:---:|:-----------:| | 3rd | *Shield* | | 5th | *Enhance Ability* | | 9th | *Elemental Weapon* | | 13th | *Death Ward* | | 17th | *Hold Monster* | #### 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 point 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. \pagebreak #### 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**: When you are subjected to an effect, such as a red dragon’s fiery breath or a Lightning Bolt spell, 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.