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 mystical connection to nature through the necessity of surviving in the wilds.

What’s the source of your particular hatred of a certain kind of enemy? Did a monster kill someone you loved or destroy your home village? Or did you see too much of the destruction these monsters cause and commit yourself to reining in their depredations? 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?

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
• Weapons: Simple weapons, martial weapons
• Tools: Choose one type of artisan's tools, one musical instrument, or the herbalism kit

• Languages: Two languages of your choice; check with your DM before choosing an exotic language

• Saving Throws: Strength, Dexterity
• Skills: Choose three from Animal Handling, Athletics, Insight, Investigation, Nature, Perception, Stealth, and Survival

Equipment

You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:

• (a) leather armor, (b) chain shirt, or (c) scale mail
• (a) a dungeoneer's pack or (b) an explorer's pack
• two melee weapons
• a ranged weapon and a fitting container with 20 pieces of ammunition

Alternatively, you can purchase your starting equipment with a starting wealth of 5d4 x 10gp.

Spell Slots

The Ranger table shows how many Spell Slots you have. The table also shows what the level of those slots is; all of your Spell Slots are the same level. To cast one of your Ranger Spells of 1st level or higher, you must expend a spell slot. You regain all expended Spell Slots when you finish a long Rest.

Once after every long rest; you can begin a 1 minute ritual to recover a number of expended spell slots equal to your Wisdom Ability Modifier.

For example, when you are 5th Level, you have six 2nd-level Spell Slots. To cast the 1st-level spell Animal Friendship, you must spend one of those slots, and you cast it as a 2nd-level spell.

Spells Known of 1st level and Higher

At 2nd level, you know two 1st-level Spells of your choice from the Ranger spell list.

You learn an additional Ranger spell of your choice at each odd numbered level thereafter. A spell you choose must be of a level no higher than what's shown in the table's Slot Level column for your level. When you reach 5th level, for example, you learn a new Ranger spell, which can be 1st, or 2nd level.

Additionally, when you finish a long rest, 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.

Whenever you finish a long rest, you can replace one spell you've learned from this Spellcasting feature with another spell from the ranger spell list. The new spell must be the same level as the spell you replace.

Conclave Magic

Each Ranger Conclave has the Conclave Magic feature this feature grants you additional spells that don't count against your spells known. You can cast these spells once without expending a spell slot. Once you cast a spell in this way, you can’t do so again until you finish a long rest.

Ritual Casting

You can cast a Ranger spell as a ritual if that spell has the ritual tag and you have the spell prepared.

Spellcasting Focus

You can use a druidic focus as a spellcasting focus for your Ranger spells.

Ranger Conclave: Beast Master

The Beast Master archetype embodies a friendship between the civilized races and the beasts of the wild. United in focus, beast and ranger fight the monsters that threaten civilization and the wilderness alike.

Source: By Dracodruid

Drakewarden Origin

Conclave Magic: Drakewarden

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

Draconic Gift

Starting at 1st level, the bond you share with your drake creates a connection to dragonkind, granting you understanding and empowering your presence.

You learn the Thaumaturgy cantrip, which is a ranger spell for you, and you learn to speak, read, and write Draconic or one other language of your choice.

Drake Companion

Also at 1st level, as an action, you can magically summon the drake that is bound to you. It appears in an unoccupied space of your choice within 30 feet of you.

The drake is friendly to you and your companions, and it obeys your commands. See its game statistics in the accompanying Drake Companion stat block, which uses your proficiency bonus (PB) in several places. Whenever you summon the drake, choose a damage type listed in its Draconic Essence trait. You can determine the cosmetic characteristics of the drake, such as its color, its scale texture, or any visible effect of its Draconic Essence; your choice has no effect on its game statistics.

In combat, the drake shares your initiative count, but it takes its turn immediately after yours. It can move and use its reaction on its own, but the only action it takes on its turn is the Dodge action, unless you take a bonus action on your turn to command it to take another action. That action can be one in its stat block or some other action. If you are incapacitated, you now control the drake and the drake can take any action of its choice, not just Dodge.

The drake remains until it is reduced to 0 hit points, until you use this feature to summon the drake again, or until you die. Anything the drake was wearing or carrying is left behind when the drake vanishes.

Once you summon the drake, you can’t do so again until you finish a long rest, unless you expend a spell slot of 1st level or higher to summon it.

Gifts of the Feywild

Conclave Magic: Fey Wanderer

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

Dreadful Strikes

At 1st level, you can augment your weapon strikes with mind-scarring magic, drawn from the gloomy hollows of the Feywild. When you hit a creature with a weapon, you can deal an extra 1d4 psychic damage to the target.

The damage from this feature increases when you reach later levels in this class, 2d4 damage at 7th level, 3d4 at 11th level, and 4d4 damage at 15th level.

Otherworldly Glamour

Additionally at 1st level, your fey qualities give you a supernatural charm. As a result, whenever you make a Charisma check, you gain a bonus to the check equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum of +1).

In addition, you learn to speak, read, and write Sylvan or one other language of your choice, and you gain proficiency in one of the following skills of your choice: Deception, Performance, or Persuasion.

Beguiling Twist

Beginning at 7th level, the magic of the Feywild guards your mind. You have advantage on saving throws against being charmed or frightened.

In addition, whenever you or a creature you can see within 120 feet of you succeeds on a saving throw against being charmed or frightened, you can use your reaction to force a different creature you can see within 120 feet of you to make a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC.

If the save fails, the target is charmed or frightened by you (your choice) for 1 minute. The target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a successful save.

Fey Reinforcements

At 11th level, the royal courts of the Feywild have blessed you with the assistance of fey beings: you know the spell Summon Fey. It doesn't count against the number of ranger spells you know, and you can cast it without a material component. You can also cast it once without using a spell slot, and you regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest.

Whenever you start casting the spell, you can modify it so that it doesn't require concentration. If you do so, the spell's duration becomes 1 minute for that casting.

Misty Wanderer

When you reach 15th level, you can slip in and out of the Feywild to move in a blink of an eye: you can cast Misty Step without expending a spell slot. You can do so a number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum of once), and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

In addition, whenever you cast Misty Step, you can bring along one willing creature you can see within 5 feet of you. That creature teleports to an unoccupied space of your choice within 5 feet of your destination space.

Conclave Magic: Gloom Stalker

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

Dread Ambusher

At 1st level, you master the art of the ambush. 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 1d12 damage of the weapon's damage type.

Umbral Sight

Also at 1st 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.

Iron Mind

By 7th level, you have honed your ability to resist the mind-altering powers of your prey. You gain proficiency in Wisdom saving throws. If you already have this proficiency, you instead gain proficiency in Intelligence or Charisma saving throws (your choice).

Stalker's Flurry

At 11th level, you learn to attack with such unexpected speed that you can turn a miss into another strike. 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 15th level, you can dodge in unforeseen ways, with wisps of supernatural shadow around you. 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.

Conclave Magic: Horizon Walker

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

Detect Portal

At 1st level, you gain the ability to magically sense the presence of a planar portal. As an action, you detect the distance and direction to the closest planar portal within 1 mile of you. If a portal is within 600 feet of you, you can sense which plane that the portal is connected to when you use this feature.

See the "Planar Travel" section in chapter 2 of the Dungeon Master's Guide for examples of planar portals.

Planar Warrior

Also at 1st level, you learn to draw on the energy of the multiverse to augment your attacks.

As a bonus action, the next time you hit a target with a weapon attack, all damage dealt by the attack becomes force damage, and the target takes an extra 1d10 force damage from the attack.

The damage from this feature increases when you reach later levels in this class, 2d10 damage at 7th level, 3d10 at 11th level, and 4d10 damage at 15th level.

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 or at the start of your next turn (your choice).

Once you use this action, you can’t use it again until after you finish a long rest, or until you expend a spell slot to use it again.

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 attacks damage on this turn.

Additionally, you've learned how to trespass through the barrier between planes, you can cast planeshift without material components once per long rest. You still require a tuning fork if your target plane is not open.

Conclave Magic: Hunter

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

Hunters Stamina

At 1st level, you have stamina on par with your fellow hunting beasts. You gain an extra 15 feet of movement, and you gain the ability to recover a number of hit points equal to 3d4 + your Ranger level upon finishing a short rest.

Hunter’s Prey

Also at 1st 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 1d12 damage if it’s below its hit point maximum.

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.

Steel Will You have advantage on saving throws against being charmed and frightened.

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

Superior Hunter’s Defense

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 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 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.

Ranger Conclave: Monster Slayer

You have dedicated yourself to hunting down creatures of the night and wielders of grim magic. A monster slayer seeks out vampires, dragons, evil fey, fiends, and other magical threats. Trained in supernatural techniques to overcome such monsters, slayers are experts at unearthing and defeating mighty, mystical foes.

Source: Xanathar's Guide to Everything

Conclave Magic: Swarmkeeper

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

Gathered Swarm

At 1st level, a swarm of intangible nature spirits has bonded itself to you and can assist you in battle. While you’re alive, the swarm remains in your space, crawling on you or flying and skittering around you within your space. You determine its appearance, or you generate its appearance by rolling on the Swarm Appearance table.

Swarming Magic

Also at 1st level, you learn the Druidcraft and Mage Hand cantrips if you don't already know them. When you cast Mage Hand, the hand takes the form of your swarming nature spirits.

Writhing Tide

At 7th level, you can condense part of your swarm into a focused mass that lifts you up. As a bonus action, you gain a flying hover speed of 30 feet and can hover. This effect lasts for 1 minute or until you are incapacitated.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a short or long rest.

Mighty Swarm

At 11th level, your Gathered Swarm grows mightier in the following ways:

• The damage of Gathered Swarm increases to 3d12.
• If a creature fails its saving throw against being moved by the Gathered Swarm, you can also cause the swarm to knock the creature prone.
• When you are moved by Gathered Swarm, it gives you half cover until the start of your next turn.

Additionally, when you land an Attack of Opportunity, you can use your Gathered Swarm upon them without spending your use of the ability that turn.

Swarming Dispersal

When you reach 15th level, you can discorporate into your swarm, avoiding danger. When you take damage, you can use your reaction to give yourself resistance to that damage. You vanish into your swarm and then teleport to an unoccupied space within 30 feet of you, where you reappear with the swarm.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Proficiency Bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a short or long rest.

Multiclassing:

Ability Scores: Dexterity 13 and Wisdom 13

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Proficiencies: Light armor, medium armor, shields, simple weapons, martial weapons, one skill from the class's skill list, and the granted tool proficiency

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Extra Attack: If you gain the Extra Attack class feature from more than one class, the features don't add together. You can't make more than two attacks with this feature unless it says you do (as the fighter version of Extra Attack does).

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Survivalist Magic: If you have both the Spellcasting class feature and the Survivalist Magic class feature from the Ranger class, you can use the spell slots you gain from the Survivalist Magic feature to cast spells you know or have prepared from classes with the Spellcasting class feature, and you can use the spell slots you gain from the Spellcasting class feature to cast Ranger spells you know.

Find Traps (Fixed)

2nd-Level Divination (ritual)

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 120 feet
• Components: V, S
• Duration: Concentration, up to 10 minutes

For the duration of the spell, you sense the location of any trap within range. A trap, for the purpose of this spell, includes anything that would inflict sudden or unexpected effect that you consider harmful or undesirable, it radiates a greater presence if it was specifically intended as such by a creator. The spell would sense an area affected by the alarm spell, a glyph of warding, a mechanical or natural pit trap, an unstable sealing, or a hidden sinkhole.

This spell reveals that traps are present, but you can only learn the location of a number of traps equal to your spellcasting ability modifier, and the general nature of the danger posed by the traps revealed to you.

You can choose to learn the location of another trap at the cost of one of the traps that you currently know the location of, as a bonus action.

Classes: Cleric, Druid, Paladin, Ranger