The Martial Ranger

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

Favored Enemy

Beginning at 1st level, you can focus your awareness on a single creature, quickly learning to anticipate its actions and retaliate against its attacks.

As a bonus action, you can designate a creature you can see within 100 feet of you and mark it as your favored enemy. Alternatively, when you attack a creature, you can the target of the attack as your favored enemy as part of the attack. Regardless of how you mark a favored enemy, you can you use this ability once during your turn. The target remains your favored enemy until you use this ability again.

You gain advantage on all Wisdom and Intelligence checks to detect your favored enemy, follow its tracks, and to determine its actions and motives.

Once during your turn, you can make an additional melee or ranged weapon attack against your favored enemy. You gain a number of uses of this ability equal to half your ranger level (minimum of 1, rounded up), and regain all expended uses when you complete a long rest.

If you have a similar ability, such as the hunter's mark spell or Slayer's Prey feature, both effects can be active at the same time, but can't be directed at the same target.

Starting at 6th level, you gain advantage on all saving throws made against effects created by your favored enemy.

Starting at 17th level, once during your turn, if you miss with a weapon attack against your favored enemy, you can make an additional weapon attack against it.

Favored Terrain

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, and you gain the benefits of that terrain at all times.

In addition, you are considered proficient in the Nature skill while in your favored terrain. If you are already proficient in this skill, your proficiency bonus is doubled while in your favored terrain.

At 10th level, you choose an additional favored terrain. You are encouraged to choose a terrain in which you have spent significant time, but you are free to choose any option.

Fighting Style

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

Poultices

At 2nd level, you can create special herbal poultices that have healing power comparable to some potions. You can spend 1 hour gathering herbs and preparing herbal poultices, and you can do this during a short rest or at the end of a long rest.

You can create and carry a number of such poultices equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum 1). The poultices you create cannot be applied by anyone but you, and after 24 hours, any poultices that you haven't used lose their potency.

If you spend 1 minute applying one of your poultices to a wounded humanoid creature, thereby expending its use, that creature regains 1d6 hit points. This healing increases at certain levels, indicated by the Poultice Healing column of the Ranger table.

Natural Explorer

You are a master of navigating the natural world and wandering the wilderness. Starting at 3rd level, you gain the following benefits:

• Difficult terrain doesn't slow your group’s travel.
• Your group can’t become lost except by magical means.
• Even when you are engaged in another activity while traveling (such as foraging, navigating, or tracking), you remain alert to danger.
• If you are traveling alone, you can move stealthily at a normal pace.
• When you forage, you find twice as much food as you normally would.

Ranger Conclave

At 3rd level, you choose to emulate the ideals and training of a ranger conclave: the Beast Conclave, the Hunter Conclave, the Stalker Conclave, the Walker Conclave, or the Slayer Conclave, all detailed at the end of the class description. Your choice grants you features at 3rd level, and again at 7th, 11th, and 15th level.

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.

Natural Antivenom

Starting at 9th level, you have advantage on saving throws against poison.

Additionally, you can use one of your poultices to cure one poison effect or one disease on the creature you are applying it to, in addition to restoring hit points.

Hide in Plain Sight

Starting at 10th level, you can remain perfectly still for long periods of time to set up ambushes. On your turn, if you do not spend any movement and take the Hide action, 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.

Natural Predator

Beginning at 13th level, you react with swift and decisive action when attacked. You have advantage on initiative rolls, and on your first turn during combat, you have advantage on attack rolls against creatures that have not yet acted.

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 a favored enemy. You can choose to use this feature before or after the roll, but before any effects of the roll are applied.

Ranger Conclaves

Across the wilds, rangers come together to form conclaves: loose associations whose members share a similar outlook on how to protect nature from those who would despoil it.

Beast Master Conclave

Many rangers are more at home in the wilds than in civiliza-tion, to the point where animals consider them kin. Rangers of the Beast Master Conclave develop a close bond with a beast, which is further strengthened through magical means.

Bestial Fury

Starting at 11th level, when you command your companion to take the Attack action, the beast can make two attacks, or it can take the Multiattack action if it has that action.

Superior Beast’s Defense

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