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, Shields, Medium armor
• Weapons: Simple weapons, martial weapons
• Tools: None

• Saving Throws: Strength & Wisdom
• Skills: Choose three from Animal Handling, Athletics, Insight, Investigation, Nature, Perception, Stealth, and Survival
• Multiclass requirement: Dexterity 13 and either Strenght 13 or Wisdom 13

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

Alternatively, you can ignore the equipment from your class and background, and start with 5d4 x 10 gp.

Natural Explorer

You are particularly familiar with the natural world and are adept at traveling and surviving in such regions.

While traveling for one hour in your favored terrain you gain the following benefits

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

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

• When you forage, you find twice as much food as you normally would.

• If you are traveling alone, you can move stealthily at a normal pace.

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

• You learn to speak a new language twice as fast than others would, due to the amount of roaming you do.

Hunting Grounds

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 make an Intelligence or Wisdom check related to your favored terrain, your proficiency bonus is doubled if you are using a skill that you’re proficient in.

Maneuvers

Upon reaching the 2nd level you learn three special maneuvers. You can use only one maneuver per attack.

You learn one additional maneuvers of your choice at 7th, 11th, and 15th level. Each time you learn new maneuvers, you can also replace one maneuver you know with a different one.

Superiority Dice

You start with four superiority dice, which are d6s, and you expend one whenever you use a maneuver. You regain them all when you finish a short or long rest.

You gain another superiority die at 7th level and one more at 14th level.

When you reach 10th level, your superiority dice turn into d8. When you reach level 15, your dice turn into d10.

Saving Throws

Some of your maneuvers require your target to make a saving throw to resist the maneuver's effects. The saving throw DC for your combat maneuvers are calculated as follows: 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Strength or Dexterity modifier (your choice)

Commander's Strike

When you take the Attack action on your turn, you can forgo one of your attacks and use a bonus action to direct one of your companions to strike. When you do so, choose a friendly creature who can see or hear you and expend one superiority die. That creature can immediately use its reaction to make one weapon attack, adding the superiority die to the attack's damage roll.

Disarming Attack

When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can expend one superiority die to attempt to disarm the target, forcing it to drop one item of your choice that it's holding. You add the superiority die to the attack's damage roll, and the target must make a Strength saving throw. On a failed save, it drops the object you choose. The object lands at its feet.

Distracting Strike

When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can expend one superiority die to distract the creature, giving your allies an opening. You add the superiority die to the attack's damage roll. The next attack roll against the target by an attacker other than you has advantage if the attack is made before the start of your next turn.

Evasive Footwork

When you move, you can expend one superiority die, rolling the die and adding the number rolled to your AC until you stop moving.

Feinting Attack

You can expend one superiority die and use a bonus action on your turn to feint, choosing one creature within 5 feet of you as your target. You have advantage on your next attack roll against that creature before the end of your turn. If that attack hits, add the superiority die to the attack's damage roll.

Goading Attack

When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can expend one superiority die to attempt to goad the target into attacking you. You add the superiority die to the attack's damage roll, and the target must make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, the target has disadvantage on all attack rolls against targets other than you until the end of your next turn.

Lunging Attack

When you make a melee weapon attack on your turn, you can expend one superiority die to increase your reach for that attack by 5 feet. If you hit, you add the superiority die to the attack's damage roll.

Hunter's Focus

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. Whenever you make a Charisma check, you gain a bonus to the check equal to your Wisdom modifier. Additionaly you become proficient in either Persuasion, Intimidation or Deception.

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.

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.

• Lighting Reflexes : You have advantage on Dexterity saving throws against effects that you can see, such as traps and spells. To gain this benefit, you can't be blinded, deafened, or incapacitated.

Hunter's Bloodlust

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.

• Overwhelming Presence : As a bonus action each creature within 30 feet of you that can see you must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw againts your spell DC or be frightened of you until the end of your next turn. Favored enemies roll with disadavantage.

Superior Hunter's Defense

At 14th 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.

• Defiant Spirit : You have advantage on saving throws against being frightened and against being possessed.

• Hide in Plain Sight : When you attempt to hide on your turn, you can opt to not move on that turn. If you avoid moving, creatures that attempt to detect you take a −10 penalty to their Wisdom (Perception) checks until the start of your next turn. You lose this benefit if you move or fall prone, either voluntarily or because of some external effect. You are still automatically detected if any effect or action causes you to no longer be hidden.

If you are still hidden on your next turn, you can continue to remain motionless and gain this benefit until you are detected.

Primeval Awareness

Upon reaching the 3rd level you can sense whether the following types of creatures are present within 4 miles of you: aberrations, monstrosities, celestials, elementals, fey, and fiends. This feature doesn't reveal the creature's number, however it can show you in which direction you need to go in order to find them.

This features also reveals if there is a planar portal within 4 mile of you and in which direction you need to go to reach it.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier (a minimum of once). You regain the use of this feature after you finish either a long or short rest.

Planar Warrior

Your experience in fighting threats from outside your plane of existence has broaden your understanding and knowledge of warfare. Your Maneuver Save DC has changed to the following formula: 8 + your proficiency bonus + either your Wisdom, Strength or Dexterity modifier (your choice).

Etheral Step

Starting from the 7th level you can use your bonus action to teleport within 10 feet of a friendly creature. The furthest you can teleport from is 60 feet from your current location.

You can use this feature three times. You regain all expended uses of it when you finish a long rest.

Distant Strike

At 10th level, when you take the Attack action, you can teleport up to 10 feet before each attack to an unoccupied space you can see.

If you attack at least two different creatures with the action, you can make one additional attack with it against a third creature.

Spectral Defense

At 14th 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.

Slayer'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 6th 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 10th 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 14th 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.

Ranger's Companion

Choose a beast that is no larger than Medium and that has a challenge rating of 1/4 or lower. Add your proficiency bonus to the beast’s AC, attack rolls, and damage rolls, as well as to any saving throws and skills it is proficient in. Its hit point maximum equals its normal maximum or four times your ranger level, whichever is higher.

The beast obeys your commands as best as it can. It takes its turn on your initiative, though it doesn’t take an action unless you command it to. On your turn, you can verbally command the beast where to move (no action required by you). You can use your action to verbally command it to take the Attack, Dash, Disengage, Dodge, or Help action. Once you have the Extra Attack feature, you can make one attack yourself and you can command the beast to take an Attack action.

While traveling through your favored terrain with only the beast, you can move stealthily at a normal pace. If the beast dies, you can obtain another one by spending 8 hours magically bonding with another beast that isn’t hostile to you, either the same type of beast as before or a different one.

Like any creature, the beast can spend Hit Dice during a short rest. If you are incapacitated or absent, the beast acts on its own, focusing on protecting you and itself. It never requires your command to use its reaction, such as when making an opportunity attack. If you don't issue a command, the beast takes the Dodge action.

Exceptional Training

Beginning at 7th level, on any of your turns when your beast companion doesn't attack, you can use a bonus action to command the beast to take the Dash, Disengage, or Help action on its turn. In addition, the beast's attacks are now considered magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage.

Coordinated Attack

Beginning at 11th level, you and your animal companion form a more potent fighting team. When your animal companion takes damage from a creature that is within 5 feet of it, you can use your reaction to make a weapon attack against that creature provided you do not have to roll with disadvantage.

Additionally if your animal companion is within 5 feet of a creature that deals damage to you, it can use it's reaction to take the Attack action against that creature.

Bestial Wrath

Starting at 15th level, when you command your beast companion to take the Attack action, the beast can make two attacks, or it can take the Multi-attack action if it has that action.

Additionally your animal companion can gains 2 superiority die (d8) and learns 2 combat maneuver from the list of combat maneuvers that you have learned. It regains the superiority die when it finishes a long rest.

Dread Ambusher

At 3rd level, 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 1d8 damage of the weapon's damage type.

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.

Iron Mind

By 6th level you have honed your ability to resist the mind-altering powers of your prey. You can chose to gain proficiency in either Intelligence, Wisdom (if you don't already have it) or Charisma saving throws.

Stalker's Flurry

At 10th 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 14th 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.

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 delay 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. This spell requires concentration and lasts for 1 minute/10 turns.

• 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.

• Steel Wind Strike - a fantastic aoe spell that requires melee spell attack rolls to deal damage. This was exclusive to wizzards and rangers,it now joins the repertoire of bards, giving bards more tools to fight hordes of enemies. Requires a melee weapon or spell casting focused to be equiped.

Cleric

Ignoric subclass themes, the cleric is only able to steal just 2 spells from the Ranger. One helps with damage while providing potential utility on the side,the other is a form of CC which requires knowledge of various DnD monsters to be worth it - and effort in reimagining the visual effects of these spells to match the cleric's domain.

• Hunter’s Mark - a thematic utility spell for a cleric who is actively pursuing bad guys. If renamed to better match the domain fantasy (or simply call it Heretic's Brand or Inquisitor's Mark), this spell can potentialy make the life of many Cleric players who like to bash heads with weapons more enjoyable.

• Ensnaring Strike - upcastable spell that rellies on weapon attack rolls,works with any weapon.Low wisdom is bad here because this is a save or suck spell. Another disadvantage here is that you have to use your imagination to make the visual effect of this spell match that of your diety's domain.

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. Thankfully you can proc the extra damage while wild shaped into a beast. Also beneifts builds based around "Magic Initiate:Druid"

• 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. Good for Shilelagh builds since that cantrip does not require concentration. At level 18 you can use this while Shapeshifted.

• 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 few multiclass builds and "Magic Initiate:Druid" builds.

• 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.

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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. Most recent link to Elemental Onslaught: https://www.gmbinder.com/share/-LP5ctEgh6ureFwKKXFk

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 & Cleric (as well as Oath of Vengeace Paladins)

• 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.

Author's note

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Shout out Section

• Shout out to u/Astray91 for this awesome and practical simplification of natural explorer

• Shout out to u/Anysnackwilldo for the reading material provided

• Shout out to u/thinger for his interesting take on Primeval Awareness

• Shout out to u/Scuronotte for his briliant version of Hunter's Quarry

• Shout out to u/Anysnackwilldo for his inspiring rant on YARV that indirectly criticisez many homebrews gone wrong (sadly I could not fit the link in this shout out, however the short version is - homebrews don't need walls of text to be good)

• Massive shout out to the D&D community from Northampton,UK who accepted me as both a player and one-off DM. Without you guys I could not have been able to fully understand this game and how to improve the Ranger as a class.

• Massive shout out to all you wonderfull people who took time to give me precious feedback and reviews!You guys are simply the best and make my day, you also motivate me to try doing more brews.