Ranger

Deft Explorer

You are an unsurpassed explorer and survivor, both in the wilderness and in dealing with others on your travels. You gain the Canny benefit below, and you gain an additional benefit below when you reach 6th level and 10th level in this class.

Ranger's Mark

Beginning at 1st level, your strikes are imbued with nature’s magic that will help with tracking and hunting your enemies.

When you hit a creature with an attack, you may mark them as your quarry. You may only mark 1 creature at a time, and the mark cannot be transferred to a different creature. The mark lasts up to an hour or until you choose to remove the mark (no action required). The mark also disappears if the marked creature dies or is not on the same plane of existence as you for more than 1 minute.

Once per round, you can add your Ranger die (d4) to your attack roll against the marked creature. Your Ranger die improves as you gain levels in this class, as shown in the Ranger die column of the Ranger table.

The marked creature has disadvantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks when trying to hide from you, and you have advantage on Wisdom (Survival & Perception) checks to track and find the marked creature.

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

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, even if you later get to choose again.

Martial Versatility. Whenever you reach a level in this class that grants the Ability Score Improvement feature, you can replace a fighting style you know with another fighting style available to rangers. This replacement represents a shift of focus in your martial practice.

Spellcasting

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 chapter 10 for the general rules of spellcasting and chapter 11 for the ranger spell list.

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 + your proficiency bonus + your Wisdom modifier
• Spell attack modifier = your proficiency bonus + your Wisdom modifier

Spellcasting Focus

You can use a druidic focus as a spellcasting focus for your ranger spells. A druidic focus might be a sprig of mistletoe or holly, a wand or rod made of yew or another special wood, a staff drawn whole from a living tree, or an object incorporating feathers, fur, bones, and teeth from sacred animals.

Ranger Archetype

At 3rd level, you choose an archetype that you strive to emulate. Your choice grants you features at 3rd level and again at 7th, 11th, and 15th level.

Primal Awareness

You can focus your awareness through the interconnections of nature: you learn additional spells when you reach certain levels in this class if you don’t already know them, as shown in the Primal Awareness Spells table. These spells don’t count against the number of ranger spells you know.

Wilderness Expert

When you reach 3rd level, you are a tested explorer of the wilderness, and your knowledge and adaptability allows you to help yourself and your companions on your adventures.

When you are traveling for more than an hour in the wilderness, you gain the following benefits:

• While traveling alone, you can move stealthily at a normal pace.
• You can't become lost except by magical means.
• You remain alert to danger even when you are engaged in another activity while traveling (such as foraging, navigating, or tracking).

If you are familiar with (or have taken a long rest in) the locale or the type of terrain you are traveling in, you gain the benefits listed above, as well as the following additional benefits:

• You ignore non-magical difficult terrain.
• Difficult terrain doesn't slow your group's travel.
• You gain advantage on Intelligence checks to recall information about the local inhabitants and wildlife.
• When you forage, you find twice as much food as you normally would.
• While tracking creatures, you can learn their exact number, their size, and how long ago they passed through the area.

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.

Hunting Reticle

By 6th level, the constant focus you put in defeating your enemies has greatly improved your tracking senses.

As a bonus action, you can mark a creature you can see within a range of 10 ft. times your ranger level without needing to hit them with an attack. While the marked creature is within this range, you know their exact location regardless of visibility or stealth.

Also, if the marked creature leaves the plane of existence you are in, you know which plane they went to (provided that you know of the existence of that plane), but not the exact location within that plane.

Land's Stride

Starting at 8th level, moving through any difficult terrain costs you no extra movement. You can also pass through non-magical plants without being slowed by them and without taking damage from them if they have thorns, spines, or a similar hazard.

Living Camouflage

Starting at 10th level, you can draw on nature's power and your practical knowledge of its gifts to hide yourself from view.

You can use the Hide action as a bonus action on your turn. If you stay hidden for 1 minute, you can use fresh mud, dirt, plants, soot, and other naturally occurring materials within your surroundings to create your camouflage.

While camouflaged, you gain a +10 bonus to Dexterity (Stealth) checks while staying or moving within a terrain that is similar to the one you started at. You also cannot be tracked by non-magical means, unless you choose to leave a trail.

Your camouflage dissipates when you take an action or reaction. Once you do, you must take the Hide action again and stay hidden for 1 minute to rebuild your camouflage.

Expose Foe

Starting at 14th level, your directed blows leave your enemies in a susceptible state.

When you hit the marked creature while using your Ranger die, the next attack roll made against the creature while they are still marked has advantage.

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.

Ultimate Hunter

At 20th level, you have learned to fully access the magic that permeates throughout the natural universe to hunt down your chosen prey.

You gain an unlimited number of uses of your Ranger's Mark ability. In addition, you know the exact location of the marked creature regardless of visibility or stealth, as long as they are on the same plane of existence as you.