The Revised Ranger, Revised

By BoBguyjoe

Far from the bustle of cities and towns, past the hedges that shelter the most distant farms from the terrors of the wild, amid the dense-packed trees of trackless forests and across wide and empty plains, rangers keep their unending watch.

Deadly Hunters

Warriors of the wilderness, rangers specialize in hunting the monsters that threaten the edges of civilization — humanoid raiders, rampaging beasts and monstrosities, terrible giants, and deadly dragons. They learn to track their quarry as a predator does, moving stealthily through the wilds and hiding themselves in brush and rubble. Rangers focus their combat training on techniques that are particularly useful against their specific favored foes.

Thanks to their familiarity with the wilds, rangers acquire the ability to cast spells that harness nature’s power, much as a druid does. Their spells, like their combat abilities, emphasize speed, stealth, and the hunt. A ranger’s talents and abilities are honed with deadly focus on the grim task of protecting the borderlands.

Independent Adventurers

Though a ranger might make a living as a hunter, a guide, or a tracker, a ranger’s true calling is to defend the outskirts of civilization from the ravages of monsters and humanoid hordes that press in from the wild. In some places, rangers gather in secretive orders or join forces with druidic circles. Many rangers, though, are independent almost to a fault, knowing that, when a dragon or a band of orcs attacks, a ranger might be the first — and possibly the last — line of defense.

This fierce independence makes rangers well suited to adventuring, since they are accustomed to life far from the comforts of a dry bed and a hot bath. Faced with city-bred adventurers who grouse and whine about the hardships of the wild, rangers respond with some mixture of amusement, frustration, and compassion. But they quickly learn that other adventurers who can carry their own weight in a fight against civilization’s foes are worth any extra burden. Coddled city folk might not know how to feed themselves or find fresh water in the wild, but they make up for it in other ways.

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—perhaps by the same kind of monster that became your favored enemy? 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.

Class Features

As a ranger, you gain the following class features

• You've attacked the target since your last turn.
• The target's movement speed is reduced.

This damage is of the same type as your weapon. You can only gain the bonus damage from each condition once per turn.

Spell Slots

The Ranger Spellcasting table shows you 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 spell slot of the spell's level or higher. You regain all expended spell slots when you finish a long rest.

Spells Known of 1st Level and Higher

You know three 1st level spells of your choice from the ranger spell list.

The Spells Known column of the Ranger Spellcasting table shows you when you learn more ranger spells of your choice. Each of these spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots.

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 must also be of a level for which you have spell slots.

This revised ranger uses the same spell list as the PHB ranger, except the spell hunter's mark is removed.

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.

Beast Master

Many rangers are more at home in the wilds than in civilization, to the point where animals consider them kin. Rangers of the Beast Master Conclave develop a close bond with a beast, then further strengthen that bond through the use of training and magic.

Animal Companion

Medium or small beast, unaligned

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• Armor Class 10 + its Dexterity modifier + PB
• Hit Points 4 + its Constitution modifier for each of your ranger levels
• Speed 30ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
12 (+1)	12 (+1)	12 (+1)	4 (-3)	12 (+1)	6 (-2)

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• Saving Throws Strength, Dexterity
• Senses passive Perception 10 + its Wisdom modifier
• Languages Understands your languages, but cannot speak

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Actions

Attack. Melee Weapon Attack: its Strength modifier + PB to hit, reach 5ft., one target. Hit: 1d8 + its Strength modifier damage.

Animal Companion Quirks

Gift of the Gloomstalker

When you choose this conclave at 3rd level, you gain benefits based on which Gift of the Wild you chose at 2nd level. If you chose Exploits, you gain the Stalker's Exploits feature. If you chose Spellcasting, you gain the Gloom Stalker Magic feature.

Dread Ambusher

At 3rd level, you master the art of the ambush. You can add your Ranger die to initiative rolls. In addition, when you use your Eye for Weakness feature, you can add an additional die of damage if it is your first turn in combat.

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.

Gift of the Hunter

When you choose this conclave at 3rd level, you gain benefits based on which Gift of the Wild you chose at 2nd level. If you chose Exploits, you gain the Hunter's Exploits feature. If you chose Spellcasting, you gain the Hunter Magic feature.

Hunter's Mark

Starting at 3rd level, you can focus your ire on one foe, increasing the harm you inflict on it. As a bonus action, you mark one creature you can see within 60 feet of you as the target of this feature. When you use your Eye for Weakness feature, you can add an additional die of damage if you attack the marked target.

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

Defensive Tactics

At 7th level, you gain extra resilience against your prey’s assaults on your mind and body. Whenever the the creature you've marked with your Hunter's Mark feature forces you to make a saving throw or whenever you make a check to escape its grapple, add your Ranger die to the roll.

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 reach of you, with a separate attack roll for each target.

Superior Defensive Tactics

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 a 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.

Horizon Walker Magic

When you choose this conclave at 3rd level, you learn an additional spell when you reach certain levels in this class, as shown in the Horizon Walker Spells table.

Rift Detection

At 3rd level, you gain the ability to magically sense the presence of a planar portal. When you use your Primeval Awareness feature, you can choose to detect a planar portal instead of a type of creature. If you detect a portal this way, you learn its distance from you.

Planar Warrior

At 3rd level, you learn to draw on the energy of the multiverse to augment your attacks.

As a bonus action, choose one creature you can see within 30 feet of you. The next time you hit that creature on this turn with a weapon attack, all damage dealt by the attack becomes force damage, and the creature takes extra damage equal to your Ranger die.

Ethereal Step

At 7th level, you learn to step through the Ethereal Plane. As a bonus action on your turn, you can cast the Etherealness spell with this feature, without expending a spell slot, but the spell ends at the end of the current turn.

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

Distant Strike

At 11th level, you gain the ability to pass between the planes in a blink of an eye. When you use 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 15th level, your ability to move between planes enables you to slip through the planar boundaries to lessen the harm done to you during battle. 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 Exploits

You learn an additional exploit of your choice. When you learn new exploits, including this one, you can choose from the ones below.

Dazing Strike. When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can attempt to temporarily daze the target. The target must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or become blinded and deafened until the end of its next turn. If the creature is Huge or bigger, it makes this saving throw with advantage.

Disarming Attack. When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can 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.

Menacing Attack. When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can attempt to strike fear into it. That creature must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or be frightened of you until the end of your next turn.

Mage Killer

When you choose this conclave at 3rd level, you gain key abilities for the hunting of magic users. Creatures must subtract a roll of your Ranger die on saves to maintain concentration on spells as a result of damage you deal. In addition, you can add your Ranger die on saving throws made against magical effects.

Slayer Training

At 3rd level, you gain proficiency in one of the following skills: Athletics, Insight, Intimidation, or Investigation.

Chilling Efficiency

At 7th level, whenever you use an exploit, you can move of to 10 feet and take the Disengage or Search action as a part of the action used to do the exploit. This movement can be done before or after the additional action.

Nemesis

At 11th level, you gain the ability to thwart someone else's magic. When you see a creature casting a spell or teleporting within 60 feet of you, you can use your reaction to make a weapon attack against it to try to foil it. It must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against your exploit 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.

Brutal Execution

Starting at 15th level, when you kill a creature, you can use your bonus action to strike fear into others with your brutality. Each ally of that creature within 60ft. of it must make a Wisdom saving throw against your exploit DC or become frightened of you until the end of your next turn.

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