Table of Contents

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.

Proficiencies

• Armor: Light armor, medium armor, shields
• Weapons: Simple weapons, martial weapons
• Tools: Choose one from Carpenter's Tools, Cartographer's Tools, Cobbler's Tools, Cook's Utensils, Leatherworker's Tools, Navigator's tool, Poisoner's Kit, Tinker's Tools, Woodcarver's Tools, or Trapper's kit

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

Cure Wounds Elixir. The creature regains 1d6 hit points. Starting at 5th level and for every five levels in this class, rounded up, the creature regains an additional 1d6 hit points.

Roaming

Beginning at 3rd level, you gain a climbing and swimming speed equal to your walking speed.

Ranger's Companion

At 3rd level, you create a powerful bond with one beast of the air, earth, sea, or horse to serve as your faithful companion. You determine its appearance. It is superior to similar beasts and it gains additional benefits while it is bonded to you. It obeys your commands as best it can, communicating using words, sounds, touch, hand gestures, body language and the like. Your animal companion has the following:

• It shares your initiative roll.
• After a short rest, it can spend Hit Dice to regain hit points. After a long rest, it recovers all lost hit points and regains spent Hit Dice, up to a number of dice equal to half of it’s total number.
• When it starts a turn with 0 hit points, it must make a death saving throw.
• If your beast dies, you can obtain another one by spending up to 8 hours to locate and bond with another animal companion that is not hostile to you. Or you can try to magically restore it's life. You gain the ability to cast Revivify Beast spell, but only as a ritual, as described in chapter 10, "Spellcasting."

Primal Connection

Beginning at 3rd level, you can speak with any beast, as though you are under the effect of the spell Speak with Animals.

In addition, you have advantage on Intelligence checks when recalling information about beasts and on Charisma checks when interacting with beasts.

Werebear

• Your AC increases by + 1
• Your Strength is 19 if not already higher.
• Your movement and climbing speed increases by 10 ft.
• Attack Action. You can use your weapons, bite, claws or any combination. The bite can only be done once per turn.
  • Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: Reach 5 feet, one target, 2d10 + your Strength modifier piercing damage
  • Claw. Melee Weapon Attack: Reach 5 feet, one target, 2d8 + your Strength modifier slashing damage

Wereboar

• Your AC increases by + 1
• Your Strength is 17 if not already higher.
• Abilities:
  • Charge If you move at least 15 feet straight toward a target and then hit it with your tusks on the same turn, the target takes an extra 2d6 slashing damage. If the target is a creature, it must succeed on a Strength saving throw DC equal to 8 + your Strength modifier + your proficiency bonus or be knocked prone.
  • Relentless (Recharges after a Short or Long Rest) If you take damage that would reduce you to 0 hit points, you are reduced to l hit point instead.
• Attack Action. You can use your weapons, tusks, or any combination. The tusks can only be used once per turn.
  • Tusk. Melee Weapon Attack: Reach 5 feet, one target, 2d6 + your Strength modifier slashing damage

Weretiger

• Your Strength is 17 if not already higher.
• Abilities:
  • Pounce If you move at least 15 feet straight toward a target and then hit it with your claw attack on the same turn, the target takes an extra 2d6 slashing damage. If the target is a creature, it must succeed on a Strength saving throw DC equal to 8 + your Strength modifier + your proficiency bonus or be knocked prone. If the target is knocked prone, you can make one bite attack against it as a bonus action.
• Attack Action. You can use your weapons, bite, claws, or any combination. The bite can only be used once per turn.
  • Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: Reach 5 feet, one target, 1d10 + your Strength modifier piercing damage
  • Claw. Melee Weapon Attack: Reach 5 feet, one target, 1d8 + your Strength modifier slashing damage

Stalker's Strike

Beginning at 3rd level, you are a master in the art of ambush. You know how to strike subtly and exploit a foe’s weaknesses. Once per turn, you can deal an extra 1d8 damage to one creature you hit with an attack if you have advantage on the attack roll. The attack must use a finesse, light, ranged, or thrown weapon.

You don't need advantage on the attack roll if another enemy of the target is within 5 feet of it, that enemy isn't incapacitated, and you don't have disadvantage on the attack roll.

In addition, you don't need advantage on the attack roll to use your Stalker's Strike against a creature if you are within 5 feet of it, no other creatures are within 5 feet of you, no other creature is within 30 feet of it, and you don't have disadvantage on the attack roll.

The amount of the extra damage increases as you gain levels in this class, as shown in the Stalker's Strike column of the Deep Stalker table.

The damage from this feature and the Rogue's Sneak Attack do not stack, though you can use the damage interchangeably.

You can read, speak, and write Draconic or one other language of your choice if you already know Draconic. In addition, you have advantage on Intelligence checks when recalling information about dragons.

Additionally, you have the ability to project the fearsome presence of a dragon. As an action, you can cause each creature in a 10-ft-cube originating from you to make a Wisdom saving throw DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus modifier + your Wisdom modifier. The creatures that fail their saving throw are all frightened by you until the end of your next turn. The range increases by 5 ft for every 5 levels you have in this class.

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

Draconic Gift (modified)

Beginning at 3rd level, the bond you share with your drake creates a connection to dragonkind, granting you understanding and empowering your presence. You have advantage on Intelligence checks when recalling information about dragons.

In addition, you can read, speak, and write Draconic or one other language of your choice if you already know Draconic.

Drake Companion

Small Dragon, Neutral

---

• Armor Class AC 14 + your proficiency bonus (PB)
• Hit Points 5 + five times your ranger level (the drake has a number of Hit Dice (d10) equal to your ranger level)
• Speed 40 ft.

---

STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
16 (+3)	12 (+1)	15 (+2)	8 (-1)	14 (+2)	8 (-1)

---

• Saving Throws Dex + 1 plus PB, Wis +2 plus PB
• Skills skills
• Damage Immunities Determined by the drake's Draconic Essence trait
• Senses Darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 12
• Languages Draconic

---

Draconic Essence. When you summon the drake, choose a damage type: acid, cold, fire, lightning, or poison. The chosen type determines the drake's damage immunity and the damage of its Infused Strikes trait.

Kinship. As a free action, you can command the drake to dash, disengage, dodge, or hide. It never requires a command to take a reaction, such as an opportunity attack. The drake acts freely if you are absent and will protect you or take you away from harm if you are incapacitated.

Ready Companion. As a bonus action, you can command the drake to take Attack or Help action.

---

Actions

Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +3 plus PB to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: ld6 plus PB piercing damage.

---

Reactions

Infused Strikes. When another creature within 30 feet of the drake that it can see hits a target with a weapon attack, the drake infuses the strike with its essence, causing the target to take an extra 1d6 damage of the type determined by its Draconic Essence.

Fey Wild Gifts

Starting at 3rd level, you also possess a preternatural blessing from a fey ally or a place of fey power. Choose your blessing from the Feywild Gifts table or determine it randomly.

In addition, you have advantage on Intelligence checks when recalling information about fey and you can read, speak, and write Sylvan or one other language of your choice if you already know Sylvan.

Sure Strike

At 3rd level, you learn to take advantage of your stealth to make your attacks more effective. Once per turn, when you make a successful weapon attack against a target, the target takes an additional 2d6 damage from the attack.

This damage increases to 3d6 at 7th level, 4d6 at 11th level, and 5d6 at 17th level in this class.

Umbral Sight (modified)

At 3rd level, nonmagical darkness doesn't impede your sight.

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.

You can speak, read, and write Abyssal and Infernal or one other language of your choice if you already know Abyssal or Infernal. In addition, you have advantage on Intelligence checks when recalling information about fiends.

Additionally, magical and nonmagical darkness doesn't impede your sight.

Portal Lore (modified)

At 3rd level, you gain the ability to magically sense the presence of planar portals. As an action, you detect the distance and direction to the closest planar portals within 1 mile of you. You also sense which plane of existence each portal leads to.

You can do this a number times equal to 1 + your Wisdom modifier, minimum + 1. You regain all expended uses after you finish a long rest.

See the “Planar Travel” section in chapter 2 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide for examples of planar portals.

Tactician (modified)

Beginning at 3rd level, you gain proficiency in the Perception skill. If you already are proficient, your proficiency bonus is doubled when you use this skill.

In addition, your tenacity can wear down the most powerful of foes. You gain one of the following features of your choice.

Art of War. Your skill in combat with hordes allows you to move through numbers without fear of reprisal. During your turn, when you make a melee weapon attack against a creature, you don’t provoke opportunity attacks from that creature for the rest of the turn, whether you hit or not.

Retaliate. When a 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 against a different creature that is within 5 feet of the original target and within range of your weapon.

Marksman. Being within 5 feet of a hostile creature doesn't impose disadvantage on your ranged attack rolls. Also, when a hostile creature's movement provokes an opportunity attack from you, you can use your reaction to make a ranged weapon attack rather than a melee weapon attack.

Planar Warrior

At 3rd level, you learn to draw on the energy of the multiverse to augment your attacks. Once per turn, when you make a weapon attack against a target, the target takes an extra 1d6 psychic damage from the attack.

The extra damage is applied to each weapon attack at 7th level in this class. The extra damage increases to 1d8 at 11th level and 1d10 at 17th level in this class.

Spellcasting

When you reach 3rd level, you augment your martial prowess with the ability to cast spells. See chapter 10 for the general rules of spell casting, chapter 11 for the druid and ranger spell list in the PHB, and ppg 288-289 for spell points in the DMG.

Nature's Fury

Beginning at 3rd level, once per turn, when you hit a target with a weapon attack, it takes extra damage equal to 1d6 + half of your ranger level, rounded up.

When you reach 11th level in this class, the extra damage die increases to 1d6 + your ranger level.

Bravado

Starting at 3rd level, your boldness in your attacks takes your opponents by surprise, allowing you to strike more accurately at your opponents weak spots. Once per turn, when you hit a target with a weapon attack, you can deal an extra 1d8 damage.

Beginning at 7th level in this class, the damage can be applied to each weapon attack. The extra damage increases to 1d10 at 11th level and 1d12 at 17th level in this class.

Dissipate

At 3rd level, when you hit a target with a weapon attack, you can attempt to dispel magic on the target as the "Dispel Magic" spell. You make an ability check using Wisdom. The DC equals 10 + the spell's level. On a success, the magic effect or spell ends.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus modifier. You regain all expended uses after a long rest.

Retribution

Starting at 3rd level, when a creature within your weapons reach makes an attack against an ally, you can use your reaction to make a weapon attack against that creature. If your attack hits, you deal normal damage plus an extra 1d6 damage. In addition, on a successful hit, the attacked ally can use their reaction to make one weapon attack against the attacking creature.

The extra damage increases to 1d8 at 7th level, 2d6 at 11th level and 2d8 at 17th level in this class.

Revivify Beast

2nd-level necromancy

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: Touch
• Components: V, S M (diamonds worth 100 gp, which the spell consumes)
• Duration: Instantaneous

You touch a beast that has died within the last 30 minutes. That beast returns to life with 1 hit point. This spell can’t return to life a beast that has died of old age, nor can it restore any missing body parts.

Also on Druid's spell list.

Swift Attack

5th-level transmutation

• Casting Time: 1 bonus action
• Range: Touch
• Components: V, S, M (a quiver containing at least one piece of ammunition or a melee weapon)
• Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute

There are two forms of transformations that can occur.

Swift Quiver: You may transmute your quiver so it produces an endless supply of non-magical ammunition, which seems to leap into your hand when you reach for it. On each of your turns until the spell ends, you can use a bonus action to make two attacks with a weapon that uses ammunition from the quiver. Each time you make such a ranged attack, your quiver magically replaces the piece of ammunition you used with a similar piece of non-magical ammunition. Any pieces of ammunition created by this spell disintegrate when the spell ends. If the quiver leaves your possession, the spell ends.

Whirling Blades: Your magic flows through your body and into your melee weapon(s), becoming as one. As long as the melee weapon(s) remains in your hand(s), on each of your turns until the spell ends, you can use a bonus action to make two attacks. t.