Bonus Proficiencies

At 3rd level, you gain proficiency in one of the following skills of your choice: Animal Handling, Deception Nature, Survival, Stealth or Intimidation.

Hunter's Prey

You gain one of the following features of your choice.

• Colossus Slayer : 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.

Hunter's Focus

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

• Traper : You count as proficient with Tinker's Tools for the purpose of disarming and creating traps.When you set a trap, you may add your proficiency bonus to the DC for creatures to detect and avoid triggering the hunting traps that you place (statistics for hunting traps can be found on page 152 of the Player’s Handbook).

• Prodigious Artisan : Whenever you take a short rest, you may use the body parts of slain beasts, constructs, dragons, monstrosities, or plants of size small or larger to make one of the following items: a shield, a club, a javelin, or 1d4 darts/blowgun darts. Additionally you become proficient with both Woodcarver’s tools & Leatherworker’s tools.

• Silver Tounge Your expert knowledge and attention to detail allow you to excel in social situations. You become proficient in either Persuasion, Intimidation or Deception. Whenever you make a skill check with the proficiency gained from this feature you gain a bonus to the check equal to your Wisdom modifier

Hunter's Prowess

At 10th 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. You can activate this feature twice per turn.

• Lighting Reflexes : You have advantage on initiative rolls & on Dexterity saving throws against effects that you can see, such as traps or spells. You do not gain this benefit if you are blinded, deafened, or incapacitated.

Hunter's Tenacity

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

• Evasion : 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.

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

• Retaliation : When you take damage from a creature that is within 5 feet of you, you can use your reaction to make a melee weapon attack against that creature.

Apex Hunter

At 18th level, you gain one of the following features of your choice.

• Devastating Force : Once per turn, when you score a critical hit with a weapon attack, you gain a bonus to that weapon’s damage roll equal to your level in this class.

• Primal Vitality : At the start of each of your turns in combat, you regain hit points equal to 5 + your Constitution modifier (minimum of 1 hit point). You don’t gain this benefit if you have 0 hit points or if you have more than half of your hit points left.

• Unyielding Predator : You have advantage on saving throws to avoid becoming paralyzed, possessed or stunned.

Author's notes.

From a thematic standpoint this is a concesion between the Rogue's Assasin subclass and the Ranger's Gloom Stalker archetypes.

This subclass is designed for tables where people prefer the fast paced nature of a combat heavy campaing as opposed to those elegant campaings where intrigue and subterfuge dominate.

Dread Ambusher

At 3rd level, you can give yourself a bonus to your initiative rolls equal to your Wisdom modifier.

Additionaly, you have advantage on attack rolls against any creature that hasn't taken a turn in the combat yet.

Umbral Sight

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

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

Steel Will

Starting at 9th level, You have advantage on saving throws against being frightened and count as being proficient in Wisdom saving throws against being frightened.

Stalker's Flurry

At 13th level, 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.

Shadowy Dodge

Starting at 17th level, 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.

Author's notes.

Another Ranger subclass repurposed to the Rogue class. I really wanted to make this a monk subclass, but was unable to find a suitable theme and name for it. I feel the monk's mobility would have been a better fit with this subclass.

Hunter's Sense

At 3rd level, as an action, choose one creature you can see within 60 feet of you. You immediately learn whether the creature has any damage immunities, resistances, or vulnerabilities and what they are. If the creature is hidden from divination magic, you sense that it has no damage immunities, resistances, or vulnerabilities.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum of once). You regain all expended uses of it when you finish a long rest.

Slayer's Prey

Starting at 3rd level, as a bonus action, you designate one creature you can see within 60 feet of you as the target of this feature. The first time each turn that you hit that target with a weapon attack, it takes an extra 1d6 damage from the weapon.

This benefit lasts until you finish a short or long rest. It ends early if you designate a different creature.

Supernatural Defense

At 9th level, whenever the target of your Slayer’s Prey forces you to make a saving throw and whenever you make an ability check to escape that targets grapple, add 1d6 to your roll.

Magic-User's Nemesis

At 13th level, when you see a creature casting a spell or teleporting within 60 feet of you, you can use your reaction to try to magically foil it. The creature must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC, or its spell or teleport fails and is wasted.

Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

Slayer's Counter

At 17th level, if the target of your Slayer’s Prey forces you to make a saving throw, you can use your reaction to make one weapon attack against the quarry. You make this attack immediately before making the saving throw. If your attack hits, your save automatically succeeds, in addition to the attack’s normal effects.

Bonus Proficiencies

At 3rd level, you gain proficiency in one of the following skills of your choice: Acrobatics, Athletics, Intimidation or Stealth. Additionally you may learn 2 common languages of your choice.

Intimidating Presence

Beginning at 3rd level, you can use your action to frighten someone with your menacing presence. When you do so, choose one creature that you can see within 30 feet of you.

You can spend a short or long rest interacting with a willing beast of challenge rating 1/4 or lower to create a temporary bond of friendship with it. Until you use this feature on another beast, you can communicate simple ideas with the animal and understand its responses.

Avatar of War (level 17 class feature variant for War Cleric)

At 17th level, when you take damage from an attack, you can use your reaction to give yourself resistance to all of that attack’s damage on this turn.

Additionaly if you are making a weapon attack you can teleport up to 10 feet before the attack to an unoccupied space you can see. You can then chose to attack a different creature or teleport to your original position. You can attack a number of creatures equal to your wisdom modifier.

Horizon Walker

Bard

This selection is aimed to aid a martial bards. Most of the spells here in this list are blaster type spells for heavy hitters and have a common theme - the caster needs to have a weapon equiped and to cashing up on magical secrets for blasting power.

• Zephyr Strike, - a fantastic spell that provides a massive mobility boost and a very good damage bonus of 1d8 force damage to any weapon attack you make. The spell requires concentration to maintain the damage bonus so it can carry on to the next turn, however casting this spell twice will not stack the damage bonus. Another benefit for this spell is that it can work with low charisma builds.

• Ensnaring Strike - upcastable spell that rellies on weapon attack rolls,works with any weapon.Low charisma is bad here because this is a save or suck spell.

• Hail of Thorns - upcastable spell that rellies on you being able to land ranged weapon attacks.This is not a good fit for low charisma builds but this is a nice addition to the bard spellcasting list because it is a low level aoe spell.

• Cordon of Arrows - a ok upcastable spell meant to serve as a quick trap for 8 hours. The downside is that this is a save or suck spell so it doesn't benefit low charisma builds.

• Lightning Arrow - a good spell for bards who use ranged weapons to have.Damage is conditional to executing a weapon attack, a succefull attack nets 4d8 Lighting damage to the target,half as much on a failed attack + an additional 2d8 Lighting Damage on a failed dex save...or half as much on a succesfull one.

• Swift Quiver - this spell is amazing if you're an archer, multiple attacks per turn for a full minute (with concentration). This sadly benefits only valor bards who get extra attack and can stack around 3 attacks per turn for a total of 10 turns/1 minute. But hey,Lighting Arrow isn't a concentration spell but it's a bard spell here.

• Steel Wind Strike - a fantastic aoe spell that requires melee weapon attack rolls to deal damage. This was exclusive to wizzards and rangers,it now joins the repertoire of bards, giving melee weapon builds that use this class fantastic aoe capabilities.

Druid

This selection is aimed to aid a martial druid/low wis druid and promote multiclassing with fighter for the combat styles.I would never recomend low wisdom builds for druids because it lowers your spellcasting DC & the number of spells you can prepare,however fighter druid multiclasses now have spells that support certain fighting styles.

• Hunter’s Mark - a thematic utility spell for a druid who is actively pursuing bad guys.

• Ensnaring Strike - upcastable spell that rellies on weapon attack rolls,the bread and butter for martial druids, works with any weapon.Low wisdom is bad here because it is a save or suck spell.

• Hail of Thorns - upcastable spell that rellies on you being able to land ranged weapon attacks.This is not a good fit for low wisdom druids due to the fact that you force creatures to make a saving throw, but it works with a fighter/druid mix.

• Conjure Barrage & Conjure Volley - aoe spells that require you to have a weapon with the thrown property or ranged weapons equiped. These spells are thematic for Druid because it involes the use of primitive weapon to activate these spells.

Wizzard

This selection is aimed to aid a martial wizzard/low int wizzards and promote low inteligence Wizzard builds as well as low inteligence Eldritch Knight and Arcane Trickster builds.

• Zephyr Strike - a fantastic spell that provides a massive mobility boost and a very good damage bonus of 1d8 force damage to any weapon attack you make. The spell requires concentration to maintain the damage bonus so it can carry on to the next turn, however casting this spell twice will not stack the damage bonus. Another benefit for this spell is that it can work with low inteligence builds and enriches the spell selection for Eldritch Knights & Arcane Tricksters.

• Cordon of Arrows - a ok upcastable spell meant to serve as a quick trap for 8 hours. The downside is that this is a save or suck spell so it doesn't benefit low inteligence builds.

• Conjure Barrage & Conjure Volley - aoe spells that require you to have a weapon with the thrown property or ranged weapons equiped. These spells are thematic for Eldritch Knights & Arcane Tricksters because they involve weapons and magic.

Shameless self promotion

Author:Dargon Black (twitter @LZenfire)

Other Work: Romanian Ranger & Rangerless world sub class patch (both searchable on GM Binder)

Upcoming work: Elemental Onslaught - a compendium of monk subclasses based on the concept of monks having elemental themed powers....like benders from the Avatar cartoon series.

Author's notes

These spells are not modified,they are writen for word as presented in the PHB and Xanathar's respectively....at least according to my online materials they are...

I believe that these Ranger exclusive spells are too good to not be used in a campaing,where the Ranger class is not allowed due to it's poor design and the huge amount of homebrews out there.

Zephyr Strike

• Level: 1 - Transmutation Spell, Wizzard & Bard

• Casting time: 1 Bonus Action

• Range: Self

• Components: V

• Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute

You move like the wind. Until the spell ends, your movement doesn’t provoke opportunity attacks. Once before the spell ends, you can give yourself advantage on one weapon attack roll on your turn. That attack deals an extra 1d8 force damage on a hit. Whether you hit or miss, your walking speed increases by 30 feet until the end of that turn.

Hunter’s Mark

• Level 1 - Divination spell, Druid only (unless you are an Oath of Vengeace Paladin)

• Casting time: 1 Bonus Action

• Range: 90 feet

• Components: V

• Duration: Concentration, up to 1 hour

You choose a creature you can see within range and mystically mark it as your quarry. Until the spell ends, you deal an extra 1d6 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 spell ends, you can use a bonus action on a subsequent turn of yours to mark a new creature.

At higher level

If you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, the damage increases by 1d6 for each slot level above 1st.

At higher level

If you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, the damage increases by 1d10 for each slot level above 1st (to a maximum of 6d10).

At higher level

When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 3rd level or higher, the amount of ammunition that can be affected increases by two for each slot level above.

At higher level

When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 4th level or higher, the damage for both effects of the spell increases by 1d8 for each slot level above 3rd.