Malleable Ranger

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Ranger

Warriors of the wilderness, rangers are natural survivalists able to survive harsh conditions and find their path through winding terrain. Their wilderness talents make Rangers expert guides through confusing terrain and adept guardians against the dangers of the wilds.

Rangers are also proficient fighters and skilled hunters. Their skills allow them to track down dangerous prey through all manner of terrain. Once found, their combat abilities are such that they can bring down even the mightiest of creatures.

Reconnaissance, preparation, and ambushing tactics are key elements in a Ranger's toolkit. Thus, swiftness, stealth, and knowledge are vital to a Ranger's success. To this end, the Ranger is aided either by druidic spellcasting or specialist survival skills with natural materials.

Class Themes

Rangers are adroit survivalists. They possess an array of diverse skills, wilderness knowledge, and honed instincts that make them adept that surviving and even thriving in the wilds.

Key Mechanics: Adept Survivalist, Wilderness Expert, Survival Instinct. The ranger is the best at surviving dangers with their expertise in wilderness knowledge and survival skills combined with the inherent advantages developed from a life in the wilds.

Rangers are adept hunters. Their senses, stealth, mobility, and fighting ability combine to make the ranger an expert in setting ambushes or wearing down monstrous foes.

Key Mechanics: Fighting Style, Hunter's Mark, Hunting Style, Primal Instincts, Skirmisher's Stealth. These mechanics and bonuses combine to allow for synergy in tracking and defeating various prey.

Rangers are far ranging explorers. They are not limited by terrain and can readily use their skills and abilities in any environment beyond the walls of civilization.

Key Mechanics: Adept Survivalist, Wilderness Expert. The benefits from their experiences in their Home Terrain are often beneficial far beyond borders of their home regions.

The Malleable Ranger is a homebrew Ranger designed to work in world where magic is racially tied. This version will thus have a spellcasting variant and a spell-less variant with identical core mechanics. This class will be more malleable and adaptable to changing circumstances such as enemy or terrain.

In the four archetypal paradigm of D&D: warrior, expert, mage, and support; this Ranger is designed to be fighter first and an expert second. This Ranger should be quite adept in the Exploration and Combat pillars of 5e D&D for this class is equal parts Survivalist, Explorer, and Hunter with a dash of Wilderness Guide on top.

Part 1 | Introduction

Level	Proficiency Bonus	Features	Hunter's Marks	Spells Known	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th
1st	+2	Adept Survivalist, Fighting Style	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2nd	+2	Wilderness Expert, Hunter's Mark, Spellcasting	2 / 1d4	2	2	-	-	-	-
3rd	+2	Ranger Discipline, Hunting Expert, Primal Instincts	2 / 1d4	3	3	-	-	-	-
4th	+2	Ability Score Improvement	2 / 1d4	3	3	-	-	-	-
5th	+3	Extra Attack	2 / 1d4	4	4	2	-	-	-
6th	+3	Journeyman Survivalist, Skirmisher's Stealth	2 / 1d4	4	4	2	-	-	-
7th	+3	Ranger Discipline Feature	2 / 1d6	5	4	3	-	-	-
8th	+3	Ability Score Improvement, Land's Stride	2 / 1d6	5	4	3	-	-	-
9th	+4	Hunter's Mark Improvement	2 / 1d6	6	4	3	2	-	-
10th	+4	Journeyman Survivalist, Wilderness Expert, Primal Instincts	2 / 1d6	6	4	3	2	-	-
11th	+4	Ranger Discipline Feature	2 / 1d6	7	4	3	3	-	-
12th	+4	Ability Score Improvement	2 / 1d6	7	4	3	3	-	-
13th	+5	-	2 / 1d8	8	4	3	3	1	-
14th	+5	Survival Instinct	2 / 1d8	8	4	3	3	1	-
15th	+5	Ranger Discipline Feature	2 / 1d8	9	4	3	3	2	-
16th	+5	Ability Score Improvement	2 / 1d8	9	4	3	3	2	-
17th	+6	-	3 / 1d8	10	4	3	3	3	1
18th	+6	Primal Instincts	3 / 1d8	10	4	3	3	3	1
19th	+6	Ability Score Improvement	3 / 1d8	11	4	3	3	3	2
20th	+6	Master Survivalist, Ranger Discipline Feature	3 / 1d8	11	4	3	3	3	2

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? 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 even a magical connection to nature through the necessity of surviving in the wilds. You may even be a partisan, fighting a dangerous group or oppressive regime either as an individual or as part of a larger group of freedom fighters, exiled rulers, or foreign nation.

Is your adventuring career a continuation of your work in protecting the borderlands, or a significant change? What made you join up with a band of adventurers? Do you find it challenging to teach new allies the ways of the wild, or do you welcome the relief from solitude that they offer?

Quick Build

You can make a ranger quickly by following these suggestions. First, make Dexterity your highest ability score as it is important for a ranged combatant or in two-weapon fighting. Wisdom is your second most important ability whether you choose to be the spellcasting Ranger or use the spell-less variant. Next, choose the outlander background.

Part 1 | Introduction

Class Features

As a ranger, you gain the following class features.

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: Herbalism Kit or the Poisoner’s Kit

Saving Throws: Choose either Strength or Intelligence,

Choose either Dexterity or Constitution
Skills: Choose three from Animal Handling, Athletics,

Acrobatics, 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

Adept Survivalist

As a Ranger, you are adept at surviving in any wilderness environment. While in any wilderness region, you gain the following benefits:

You have advantage on all survival checks in the wilderness.
When traveling for more than an hour in the wilderness, your group will not be slowed by difficult terrain.
When traveling alone, you can move stealthily at a normal pace.

You also gain additional survival benefits at levels 6, 10, and 20. Furthermore, your time in the wilds has given you additional benefits depending on your Home Terrain.

Home Terrain

Choose one type of Home Terrain. Whenever you make knowledge checks related to home region or terrain that is similar to your Home Terrain, you double your proficiency bonus.

Arctic

You have extensive experience surviving in cold climates such as Tundra, Alpine, or Arctic regions. You have advantage on Constitution saving throws against extreme cold and frigid water. Additionally, whenever you suffer cold damage, you reduce the damage taken by your wisdom modifier.

Arid

You have extensive experience surviving in extremely hot and dry regions such as Arid, Semi-Arid, or Desert regions. You have advantage on Constitution saving throws against extreme heat and dehydration. Additionally, whenever you suffer fire damage, you reduce the damage taken by your wisdom modifier.

Forest

You have extensive experience surviving in heavily forested regions such as dense jungles, rain forests, or temperate woodlands. Climbing does not cost you extra movement. If you possess or gain this benefit or a climbing speed from any other feature or source, your movement speed while climbing increases by 10 ft as long as the feature or source's conditions are met.

Grasslands

You have extensive experience surviving in various hilly landscapes or flatlands where distances are vast and sights largely unhindered. You can dash as a bonus action. Additionally, you have advantage on Constitution saving throws for forced marches and extensive running.

Mountains

You have extensive experience surviving in mountainous regions with natural caverns and tunnels. In such lands, climbing with and without equipment has been a major part of your travels. You have double proficiency on athletics, acrobatics, and knowledge checks involving climbing.

Oceanic

You have extensive experience surviving in coastal regions, on islands or ships, or under the seas. Swimming does not cost extra movement. If you possess or gain this benefit or a swim speed from any other feature or source, your movement speed while swimming increases by 10 ft as long as the feature or source's conditions are met. You have advantage on Constitution saving throws related to extensive swimming.

Swamp

You have extensive experience surviving in the more dangerous swampy regions where disease-carrying insects, stagnant water, and poisonous creatures abound. You have advantage on Constitution saving throws against poison and diseases. Poison damage is reduced by your wisdom modifier.

Feywild

You have extensive experience surviving in various regions of the Feywild. A place of mystery and magic where not all is as it seems at first glance and plane-shifting to and from this plane can leave the average individual lost and confused. Your experiences allow you to quickly hide as a bonus action. Additionally, you can hide when only lightly obscured by natural phenomenons such as foliage, heavy rain, mist, etc. Further, you do not lose your memories when traveling to and from the Feywild.

Part 2 | Class Features

Underdark

You have extensive experience surviving in deep, dark regions of the Underdark. This time in such a lightless land have boosted your perception in the dark through a combination of training your eyes and honing your other senses. As long you are not deafened, You do not suffer disadvantage on perception checks related to dim light conditions.

Fighting Style

At 1st 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.

Archery

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

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

As long as you are not wearing heavy armor or using a shield, swimming and climbing do you cost you extra movement equal to your normal speed, and you gain a +1 bonus to AC.

Two-Weapon Fighting

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

Hunter’s Mark

When you reach 2nd level, you gain the ability to use your bonus action to focus on a single creature that you can see. For 1 minute, melee and ranged weapon attacks against that creature deal 1d4 additional damage. The number of times you can use Hunter’s Mark is shown in the Hunter’s Marks column of the Level Progression Table. You regain any expended uses at the end of a short or long rest.

Your damage bonus for Hunter's Mark increases to 1d6 at your 7th Ranger level. Starting at your 9th Ranger level, you can use your bonus action to switch your current mark to another target if your current target is incapacitated, unconscious, dead, or more than 150 feet away from you. The damage bonus for Hunter's Mark increases to 1d8 at your 13th Ranger level.

Hunter's Mark is removed from the Ranger's spell list. The spell also does not stack with this feature.

Wilderness Expert

At 2nd level, choose one of your skill proficiencies from among the following list of Ranger skills: Animal Handling, Nature, Perception, Stealth, or Survival. Your proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability check you make that uses the chosen skill.

At 10th level, you can choose another of your proficiencies to gain this benefit as long as it is a Ranger skill, the Herbalism Kit, or the Poisoner’s Kit.

Herbalism and Wilderness Crafting (Spell-less)

By the time you reach 2nd level, you have learned to use the flora, fauna, and minerals of your environment in the preparation of various materials to aide you in the combat or the wilds. You gain proficiency in either the Herbalism or Poisoners’ Toolkits.

While resting, you can use Ranger Points to prepare various poultices, remedies, camouflage and other concoctions. These concoctions are prepared and completed at the end of a short rest or long rest unless stated otherwise. Given the nature in which these concoctions are prepared, they only last 10 hours before losing potency and effectiveness unless stated otherwise. These concoctions all require an action to use or consume.

The number of concoctions you know how to prepare is shown in the level progression chart. With each Ranger level, you can trade out one known concoction for another.

Your Ranger Points are based on your Ranger level as detailed in the level progression chart. Expended Ranger Points are restored on a long rest. Saving Throw DCs for your concoctions are equal to 8 + Wisdom Modifier + Proficiency Bonus.

Concoctions are located in Addendum: Concoctions

Level	Concoctions Known	Ranger Points
1st	-	-
2nd	2	2
3rd	3	3
4th	3	4
5th	4	8
6th	4	9
7th	5	10
8th	5	11
9th	6	15
10th	6	16
11th	7	17
12th	7	18
13th	8	23
14th	8	24
15th	9	25
16th	9	26
17th	10	35
18th	10	36
19th	11	37
20th	11	38

Part 2 | Class Features

Ranger Maneuvers (Spell-less)

Starting at 2nd level in Ranger, you learn maneuvers that can be performed in combat. As you gain Ranger levels, you learn new maneuvers. These maneuvers use your Ranger points to perform. When you gain this feature, you learn 2 maneuvers and gain 1 new maneuver at levels 5, 9, 13, and 17. You can also trade out 1 old maneuver at each of these levels.

Maneuver save DC = 8 + proficiency bonus + Dexterity modifier

Maneuver attack modifier = proficiency bonus + Dexterity modifier

Maneuvers

The following maneuvers use your Ranger points.

Disarming Strike - When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can expend one Ranger point to attempt to disarm the target, forcing it to drop one item of your choice that it's holding. The target must make a Strength saving throw. On a failed save, it drops the object you choose. The object lands at its feet.

Trip Attack - When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can expend one Ranger point to attempt to knock the target down. If the target is Large or smaller, it must make a Strength saving throw. On a failed save, you knock the target prone.

Evasive Footwork - When you move, you can expend one Ranger point, adding your proficiency bonus to your AC until you stop moving.

Parry - When another creature damages you with a melee attack, you can use your reaction and expend one Ranger point to reduce the damage by the number your Wisdom modifier + your Dexterity modifier.

Double Arrow (Requires Level 5) - As an action, you can expend 2 Ranger points to fire two arrows at the same time at the same creature. If the attack hits, treat it as two successful weapon hits. If the attack is a miss greater than 1, the target takes a single arrow hit.

Focused Strike (Requires Level 9) - As an bonus action, you can expend 2 Ranger points to take careful aim at a target. As long as you maintain concentration, your attacks against that target during your next turn are made with advantage.

Rapid Dual Strike (Requires Level 13) - If you are dual-wielding melee weapons and take the attack action, you can expend 2 Ranger points to include the off-hand weapon attack with each main weapon attack without expending a bonus action. The bonus action cannot be used for an off-hand weapon attack.

Rapid Fire (Requires Level 13) - As a bonus action, you can expend 2 Ranger points to make two ranged attacks as a bonus action.

Concentrated Volley (Requires Level 17) - As an action, you spend 2 Ranger points to shoot 20 arrows into a 100 ft line, 15 ft wide from your position. Each creature in that line must make a Dex saving throw vs your Ranger Strike DC or take 4d6 Piercing damage.

Spellcasting (Spellcaster)

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 Spells Rules for the general rules of spellcasting and the Spells Listing 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.

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 your Wisdom 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 + proficiency bonus + Wisdom modifier

Spell attack mod = proficiency bonus + Wisdom modifier

Animal Friendship (Spell-less)

At 3rd level, your way with animals gives you an advantage on animal handling checks. Additionally, you can attempt to sooth and win over one hostile beast or a small group of hostile beasts that allied with each other (max 6 beasts) with a successful animal handling check. Note that the advantage from this feature is canceled by the disadvantage of animal handling a hostile beast.

Ranger Discipline

At 3rd level, you choose to emulate the ideals and training of a Ranger Discipline: Hunter, Gloom Stalker, Horizon Walker, Monster Slayer, Primeval Guardian, or Beast Master. Your choice grants you features at 3rd level and again at 7th, 11th, 15th, and 20th level.

Part 2 | Class Features

Hunting Expert

Beginning at 3rd level, your previous experiences and research dealing with a varying array of common and unusual threats has provided you extensive knowledge in fighting monsters and other creatures. In addition, certain threats have drawn your particular attention over others. Based on your chosen Hunting Style, you are experienced in studying, tracking, hunting, and even talking to certain groups of creatures known as your Favored Prey.

Favored Prey

When you choose a Hunting Style, certain creatures become your Favored Prey. When you gain this feature, you add two languages of your choice that is spoken from among your Favored Prey. You have advantage on Medicine and Survival Checks against, on or in pursuit of these creatures. In addition, you have advantage and proficiency on any intelligence check to recall or research information about them including when using the Combat Knowledge ability.

Further, when you use Hunter's Mark on one of your Favored Prey, you can reroll 1s on any of your attacks’ damage die once per die.

Your focus on interacting with and fighting your Favored Prey has improved your skills and abilities providing you with additional benefits based on the Favored Prey.

Hunting Style

Choose one of the following Hunting Styles:

Abomination Slayer

You seek out and hunt down various creatures created or corrupted by fell magics or crafted from lifeless matter.

Favored Prey: Constructs, Monstrosities, Oozes, Undead

Benefit: Advantage on Saving Throws vs Being Knocked

Prone, Paralyzed, or Petrified

Bounty Hunter

You seek out and hunt down various medium or small-sized, bipedal creatures whose nature or society drives their individuals toward acts considered chaotic or unlawful on the cosmological morality scale.

Favored Prey: Chaotic Humanoid Races

Benefit: Advantage on Perception Checks vs Stealth

Commando / Partisan

A particular faction of Humanoids have proven to be threat to a way of life you cherish or a group of people you protect, or they violate principles you hold dear. This faction may be a criminal organization, a pirate crew, a business enterprise, or even a nation. You are always actively seeking knowledge to give you an edge in your fight to stop or destroy this faction.

Favored Prey: a Faction of Humanoids

Benefit: Add a new faction every 3 Ranger Levels

Giant Stalker

You seek out and hunt down large and dangerous prey that are quite substantial in size.

Favored Prey: Dragons and Giants

Benefit: Gain +2 damage with weapon attacks made

against Dragons, Giants, and Huge or Larger creatures

Light Bringer (Spellcaster)

You bring light to the dark places of the planes. You seek out and hunt down dark beings and their creatures whether it be Fiery Fiends, Alien Aberrations, or Unholy Undead.

Favored Prey: Aberrations, Fiends, Undead

Benefit: Hunter’s Mark deals Radiant Damage

Planes Keeper (Spellcaster)

Your primary goal is the protection of the prime material plane from the interference of creatures beyond it.

Favored Prey: Aberrations, Celestials, Elementals, Fey,

Fiends

Benefit: Advantage on Insight Checks

Wilderness Warden

The wilds can be a dangerous place for any creature. You actively protect civilization from these dangers while also aiding nature in maintaining an ecological balance.

Favored Prey: Beasts, Monstrosities, Plants

Benefit: Advantage on Animal Handling and Nature

checks. Less than 5 Intelligence Beasts, Monstrosities

and Plants can be calmed by Animal Handling checks.

House Rule: Expanded Animal Handling

See Addendum: Rules

Combat Knowledge

As a bonus action in an encounter, you can attempt to intuit pertinent information from general knowledge and past experiences about a particular creature that you can see. This creature must be part of your favored prey. As part of this action, you can relay this information to your allies as long as they can understand you.

You roll an intelligence check using the most appropriate skill for the creature type. If the check is successful, you gain at least one of the following pieces of information about the creature. The DM decides which of these pieces of information you are given and if more than one is provided.

All of its Senses
All of its Damage/Condition Immunities (could be none)
All of its Resistances (could be none)
One of its Vulnerabilities or Special Weaknesses (if applicable)
One of its Special Actions/Bonus Actions/Reactions (could be none)
One of its Passive Abilities/Bonuses (if applicable)

This ability can only be used once per stat block per long rest and does not work against unique creatures or non-statblocked NPCs. This ability does not preclude less specific knowledge checks about creatures outside of combat.

For DMs: The suggested DC for the roll is either
10 + (target creature CR - Character Level)
or 10, whichever is higher.

Part 2 | Class Features

Primal Instincts

At 3rd level your survival training has honed your senses to an uncanny level.

You can use your Primal Instincts a number of times equal to 1 plus your Wisdom modifier (minimum 1). You regain any expended uses at the end of a short or long rest. As an action, you can use this feature to heighten your senses and gain one of the following benefits:

Primal Tracking At 3rd level, you can use your Primal Instincts to focus on a creature you can see. You gain advantage on Wisdom (Perception) and Wisdom (Survival) checks made to find, detect, and/or track the creature. The duration for this ability lasts for 1 hour. The duration increases to 8 hours at 9th level and 24 hours at 17th level.

Primeval Awareness At 3rd level, you can use your Primal Instincts to focus your awareness on various clues in the area around you. For 1 minute, you can sense whether your favored prey is present within 1 mile of you. This feature also reveals vague information about the direction, distance, type, and group size of these creatures from your current position.

Gut Feeling Beginning at 10th level, you can use your Primal Instincts as part of an attack to intuit the position of unseen foes. Until the start of your next turn, your inability to see an enemy does not impose disadvantage on your attack rolls.

Feral Sense Beginning at 18th level you can use your Primal Instincts to develop a sixth sense. For one hour you cannot be surprised, and you know the location of any invisible creatures within 30’ of you, provided the creature isn’t hidden from you and you aren’t blinded or deafened.

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.

Journeyman Survivalist

As you gain Ranger levels, your general, wilderness survival abilities improve.

At 6th level, you cannot be surprised while in the wilderness. Further, your group leaves no trail when in the wilderness and cannot be tracked through non-magical means unless you choose to leave a trail.

At 10th level, your allies within 60 ft of you cannot be surprised while you are in the wilderness.

Skirmisher’s Stealth

Beginning at 6th level, your speed and stealth in combat make you hard to pin down. You can take the Hide action as a bonus action. Additionally, if you are hidden when you roll initiative, making an attack during the first round of combat does not reveal your location if you otherwise fulfill the conditions needed to hide.

Land’s Stride

Starting at 8th level, moving through nonmagical difficult terrain costs you no extra movement. You also pass through nonmagical plants without being slowed by them and without taking damage from them if they have thorns, spines, or similar hazards. 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 entangle spell.

Call Natural Allies (Spell-less)

Starting at 13th level, when you are in a terrain where your Natural Explorer feature applies, you can call natural creatures from that terrain to fight on your behalf, using your attunement to the natural world to convince them to aid you. The DM chooses beasts appropriate to the terrain to come to your aid from among those that could hear you and that are within 1 mile of you, in one of the following groups:

One beast of challenge rating 2 or lower
Two beasts of challenge rating 1 or lower
Four beasts of challenge rating 1/2 or lower
Eight beasts of challenge rating 1/4 or lower

These beasts approach you from their current location, and will fight alongside you, attacking any creatures that are hostile to you. They are friendly to you and your comrades, and you roll initiative for the called creatures as a group, which takes its own turns. The DM has the creatures’ statistics.

After 1 hour, these beasts return to their previous location. Once you use this feature, you cannot use it again in the same general area for 24 hours, since the same animals will not repeatedly heed your call.

Survival Instinct

At 14th level, you gain a saving throw in an ability score you do no already possess from one of the following: Dexterity, Constitution, Strength, or Intelligence.

Master Survivalist

By 20th level, you are a master at surviving in the wilderness in many and varied regions. You double your proficiency bonus for all survival checks and whenever you make a knowledge check about any wilderness region.

Part 2 | Class Features

Ranger Disciplines

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 to fight the threats you face, from rampaging ogres and hordes of orcs, to towering giants and terrifying dragons.

Hunter Magic (Spellcaster)

Hunter Spells

You learn an additional spell when you reach certain levels in this class. The spell counts as a ranger spell for you, but it doesn't count against the number of ranger spells you know.

Ranger Level	Spells
3rd	fog cloud
5th	misty step
9th	plant growth
13th	freedom of movement
17th	hold monster

Hunter’s Prey

At the 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 the 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 or misses 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 are immune to being frightened.

Multiattack

At the 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 move up to half your speed and make a melee attack against any number of creatures that came within 5 feet of you during this movement. You must make a separate attack roll for each target, and this movement provokes attacks of opportunity as normal.

Hunter’s Strike Your Hunter’s Mark damage die is increased by 1. Additionally, all attacks made against Favored Prey can be treated as if they are targeted by Hunter’s Mark.

Superior Hunter’s Defense

At the 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 again 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.

Foe Slayer

At 20th level you become an unparalleled hunter of your enemies. When you hit an enemy with an attack, you can choose to deal an additional 5d8 damage and have them make a Constitution saving throw against your spell save DC. If the target fails, you can choose one of the following conditions to inflict upon them: blinded, deafened, frightened, or incapacitated. The creature suffers from this effect until the end of your next turn. If the creature is one of your favored prey and has fewer than 50 hit points, it dies. Once you use this feature, you cannot use it again until after you finish a long rest.

Part 3 | Ranger Disciplines