Features Gained

Features Removed

Features Kept

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 after 1st

Proficiencies

• Armor: Light armor, medium armor, shields
• Weapons: Simple weapons, martial weapons
• Tools: None

• 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) 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
• A tool with which you are proficient (if any)

Favored Foe

Starting at 1st level, when you hit a creature with an attack roll, you can call on your mystical bond with nature to mark the target creature as your favored enemy for the duration.

The mark remains until the target dies, another creature is marked, or you become incapacitated.

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

You have the following benefit against favored enemies:

• The first time on each of your turns that you hit a favored enemy and deal damage to it, you can increase that damage by 1d4, including when you mark a favored enemy.

This feature's extra damage increases when you reach certain levels in this class: to 1d6 at 6th level and to 1d8 at 14th level.

Hunter's Knack

At 1st level, you acquire the Tracker knack, as well as one other knack of your choice. (See page 8 for Hunter's Knack Options)

As you level up in this class, you gain additional knacks as shown in the Knacks Known column.

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.
Archery. You gain a +2 bonus to attack rolls you make with ranged weapons.
Blind Fighting. You have blindsight with a range of 10 feet. Within that range, you can effectively see anything that isn't behind total cover, even if you're blinded or in darkness. Moreover, you can see an invisible creature within that range, unless the creature successfully hides from you.
Defense. While you are wearing armor, you gain a +1 bonus to AC.
Druidic Warrior. You learn two cantrips of your choice from the druid spell list. They count as ranger spells for you, and Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for them. Whenever you gain a level in this class, you can replace one of these cantrips with another cantrip from the druid spell list.
Dueling. When you are wielding a melee weapon in one hand and no other weapons, you gain a +2 bonus to damage rolls with that weapon.
Giant Killer. When a weapon attack is made against you by a larger creature, add +2 to your AC. Whether the attack hits or misses, you can use your reaction to make a weapon attack against the offending creature.
Thrown Weapon Fighting. You can draw a weapon that has the thrown property as part of the attack you make with the weapon.

In addition, when you hit with a ranged attack using a thrown weapon, you gain a +2 bonus to the damage roll.
Two-Weapon Fighting. When you engage in two-weapon fighting, you can add your ability modifier to the damage of the second attack.

Preparing and Casting Spells

The Ranger table shows how many spell slots you have to cast your ranger spells. To cast one of your ranger spells of 1st level or higher, you must expend a slot of the spell's level or higher. You regain all expended spell slots when you finish a long rest.

You prepare the list of ranger spells that are available for you to cast, choosing from the ranger spell list. When you do so, choose a number of ranger spells equal to your Wisdom modifier + half your ranger level, rounded down (minimum of one spell). The spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots.

For example, if you have prepared the 1st-level spell animal friendship and have a 1st-level and a 2nd-level spell slot available, you can cast animal friendship using either slot.

You can change your list of prepared spells when you finish a long rest. Preparing a new list of ranger spells requires time spent in prayer or meditation: at least 1 minute per spell level for each spell on your list.

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.

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.

Pathfinder Spells

Strider Spells

Trapper Spells

You can cast each of the spells from the table you choose 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.

General Overview: Subclass Changes

Draconic Gift

The bond you share with your drake creates a connection to dragonkind, granting you understanding and empowering your presence. You gain the following benefits:

• Thaumaturgy. You learn the thaumaturgy cantrip, which is a ranger spell for you.
• Tongue of Dragons. You learn to speak, read, and write Draconic or one other language of your choice.
• Expanded Spell List. Dragon's Breath and Summon Draconic Spirit are added to your ranger spell list.

Dreadful Strikes

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, which can take this extra damage only once per turn.

The extra damage increases to 1d6 when you reach 11th level in this class.

Fey Wanderer Magic

You gain access to the spells on the Fey Wanderer Spells table as you level up in this class. When you gain access to a spell, you always have it prepared and it doesn't count against the number of spells you can prepare each day. If you gain access to a spell that doesn't appear on the ranger spell list, the spell is nonetheless a ranger spell for you.

Otherworldly Glamour

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 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.

Dread Ambusher

At 3rd 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 1d8 damage of the weapon's damage type.

Umbral Sight

At 3rd 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.

Gloom Stalker Magic

You gain access to the spells on the Gloom Stalker Spells table as you level up in this class. When you gain access to a spell, you always have it prepared and it doesn't count against the number of spells you can prepare each day. If you gain access to a spell that doesn't appear on the ranger spell list, the spell is nonetheless a ranger spell for you.

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.

Detect Portal

At 3rd level, you gain the ability to magically sense the presence of a planar portal. As a variation of Primeval Awareness, you spend an action to detect the distance and direction to the closest planar portal within 1 mile of you. On subsequent turns over the next minute, you can spend another action to detect a portal, detecting the next nearest portal each time (if any).

Once you use this feature, you can't use it again unless you finish a short or long rest, or spend a spell slot to do so.

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

Detect Outsider

You can treat the following creature types as favored enemy types for your uses of Primeval Awareness: aberrations, celestials, dragons, elementals, fey, fiends, and undead.

Planar Warrior

Once on each of your turns, when you hit a creature within 30 feet with a weapon attack, you can convert the damage you deal into force damage and deal an extra 1d8 force damage.

When you reach 11th level in this class, the extra damage increases to 2d8.

Horizon Walker Magic

You gain access to the spells on the Horizon Walker Spells table as you level up in this class. When you gain access to a spell, you always have it prepared and it doesn't count against the number of spells you can prepare each day. If you gain access to a spell that doesn't appear on the ranger spell list, the spell is nonetheless a ranger spell for you.

Spectral Defense

At 7th 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.

Distant Strike

At 11th level, you gain the ability to pass between the planes in the blink of an eye. When you take 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.

Ethereal Step

At 15th level, you learn to step through the Ethereal Plane. As a bonus action, 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 unless you finish a short or long rest, or spend a 4th-level or higher spell slot to do so.

Hunter's Quarry

On taking this archetype, choose a type of creature from the following to be an additional favored enemy type for you: beasts, fey, humanoids, monstrosities, plants, or undead.

While you focus on Primeval Awareness to detect a creature marked by your use of Favored Foe, you can use an action on each of your turns to ascertain the exact direction of that creature, provided they are within 500 feet. This ability does not work on creatures immune to, or shielded from, divination magic.

Hunter Magic

You gain access to the spells on the Hunter Spells table as you level up in this class. When you gain access to a spell, you always have it prepared and it doesn't count against the number of spells you can prepare each day. If you gain access to a spell that doesn't appear on the ranger spell list, the spell is nonetheless a ranger spell for you.

Adaptive Defense

Starting at 7th level, you have a +4 bonus to your AC against attacks made by favored enemies. Also, when you are hit by an attack from a creature that is not a favored enemy, you gain the AC bonus against the offending creature until the start of your next turn.

Deadly Aim

Starting at 11th level, when you make an attack roll against a favored enemy, you can force the target to make a Dexterity saving throw against 8 + your proficiency bonus + your

ability modifier used for the attack. On a failure, the attack has advantage against the target.

You can force a saving throw with this feature a number of times equal to 1 + your Wisdom modifier (min. 2 uses). You regain any expended uses upon finishing a short or long rest.

Hunting Tactics

By 15th level, you are an expert in studying your opponents and leveraging opportunities in combat. Once on each of your turns, after you make a weapon attack with advantage, you can make an extra weapon attack- either against the same creature or a creature within 5 feet of the initial target. You must be using a weapon with which you are proficient.

You do not need advantage if a target of either attack is a favored enemy.

Primeval Adversary

Outsiders to the Material Plane and others who bring to it only destruction are your prey. Choose one from the following to be counted among your favored enemy types: aberrations, celestials, dragons, elementals, fey, fiends, or undead.

When focusing on Primeval Awareness, instead of spending a minute locating favored enemies, you can use that minute to ascertain the directions of creatures belonging to one of the above creature types.

Hunter's Sense

As a bonus action, you target a creature you can see within 60 feet. You learn whether it has any resistances, immunities, or vulnerabilities, and what they are if they do.

This feature does not work on creatures immune to, or shielded from, divination magic. In such instances, the creature appears to have no notable immunities, resistances, or vulnerabilities- unless otherwise stated by the DM.

Monster Slayer Magic

You gain access to the spells on the Monster Slayer Spells table as you level up in this class. When you gain access to a spell, you always have it prepared and it doesn't count against the number of spells you can prepare each day. If you gain access to a spell that doesn't appear on the ranger spell list, the spell is nonetheless a ranger spell for you.

Swarmkeeper Magic

You gain access to the spells on the Swarmkeeper Spells table as you level up in this class. When you gain access to a spell, you always have it prepared and it doesn't count against the number of spells you can prepare each day. If you gain access to a spell that doesn't appear on the ranger spell list, the spell is nonetheless a ranger spell for you.

Gathered Swarm

At 3rd level, a swarm of intangible nature spirits has bonded itself to you and can assist you in battle. Until you die, the swarm remains in your space, crawling on you or flying and skittering around you within your space.

Once on each of your turns, you can cause the swarm to assist you in one of the following ways, immediately after you hit a creature with an attack:

• The attack's target takes 1d6 piercing damage from the swarm.
• The attack's target must succeed on a Strength saving throw against your spell save DC or be moved by the swarm up to 15 feet horizontally in a direction of your choice.
• You are moved by the swarm 5 feet horizontally in a direction of your choice.

Writhing Tide

Beginning 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 speed of 10 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 long rest.

Mighty Swarm

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

• The damage of Gathered Swarm increases to 1d8.
• 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.

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 that you can see 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 long rest.

"Not bound, but freed.
Not cursed, but blessed."

Honed Instinct

This feature is acquired at your 2nd level in druid, or at your 3rd level in barbarian or ranger.

Your proficiency bonus is doubled on checks involving the skill you chose as part of the Bestial Instincts feature. You have advantage on all Perception checks involving sight, hearing, or smell.

Shapechanger

This feature is acquired at your 2nd level in druid, or at your 3rd level in barbarian or ranger.

You are now considered a shapechanger, in addition to your default creature typing (humanoid, fey, etc.).

You can use your action to change into the form of a wolf, or into the hybrid form of a werewolf. Use the rules for Wild Shape, except where otherwise stated in this feature. The form you take has:

• a number of hit points (separate from your own) equal to four times your level in this class
• resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks that aren't silvered
• the benefits of your Shifting feature
• a duration lasting a number of hours equal to half your level in this class, rounded down

You can transform with this feature again by expending two uses of Shifting.

Aspect of the Beast

This feature is acquired at your 6th level in barbarian or druid, or at your 7th level in ranger.

You gain the hunting sensibilities of a wolf. You can track other creatures while traveling at a fast pace, and you can move stealthily while traveling at a normal pace.

Additionally, your natural weapons in either form are considered magical for purposes of bypassing resistances.

Mastering the Beast

This feature is acquired at your 10th level in barbarian or druid, or at your 11th level in ranger.

You have advantage on saving throws to resist effects that attempt to place you under a charm, compulsion, or possession. You also have advantage on saving throws against magic that attempts to change your form.

Howl

This feature is acquired at your 14th level in barbarian or druid, or at your 15th level in ranger.

When you shift, taking your wolf or hybrid forms, you can choose to howl and invoke an effect dependent on your shifter lineage.

Beasthide. You invigorate you and your allies, granting temporary hit points equal to your level in this class.

Longtooth. Allies within 60 feet can use their reaction to move up to half their movement and make an attack.

Swiftstride. Creatures you designate within 60 feet must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or become silenced for up to 1 minute. A creature can reattempt the saving throw at the end of each of their turns, ending the effect when they succeed on the save.

Wildhunt. You cast conjure animals without expending a spell slot, summoning fey spirits in the form of wolves or dire wolves. Maintaining the spell does not require concentration when it is cast in this way. You cannot cast the spell in this way again until you finish a long rest.

Tricks of the Trade

On taking this archetype, you gain proficiency with disguise kits, as well as acquire a particular set of skills in the following features.

A Dangerous Game. If your weapon attack would drop a creature to 0 hit points, you can choose to guarantee that they merely become unconscious, and remain stable.
No Stone Unturned. Over the course of at least 1 hour spent about an urban setting, you can make an Insight, Perception, or Survival check with advantage to gather information. Potentially gaining specific insights as to the whereabouts, physical description, public knowledge, and public perception of a specific creature, location, or event.
Social Chameleon. You can use your Wisdom modifier in place of your Charisma modifier on Charisma checks. Also, you can mimic the methods of speech, such as an accent, of any creature you know well or hear speak for at least 1 minute, provided you know the language.
Wolf in Sheep's Clothing. You have advantage on Stealth checks made to blend into and hide amongst a crowd.

Manhunter Magic

You gain access to the spells on the Manhunter Spells table as you level up in this class. When you gain access to a spell, you always have it prepared and it doesn't count against the number of spells you can prepare each day. If you gain access to a spell that doesn't appear on the ranger spell list, the spell is nonetheless a ranger spell for you.

Gut Feeling

Starting at 3rd level, you have proficiency in Insight if you don't already. If you already have proficiency in Insight, you may take proficiency in another skill or Thieves' Tools instead.

Choose one skill from Survival, Insight, and Perception. You can double your proficiency bonus on ability checks involving the skill you chose.

Hex Ward

Starting at 7th level, you have advantage on saving throws against magical effects involving curses and other magical afflictions- as examples, bestow curse and lycanthropy.

Additionally, you cannot be targeted by the hex spell.

Headhunting

Starting at 11th level, a creature struck by you cannot be healed by magical means until the end of your next turn.

The body of a creature you slay is placed under the effects of the Gentle Repose spell.

Magus Bane

At 15th level, you have practiced techniques extensively to combat spellcasters, gaining you the following benefits.

• If a creature is casting a spell, then you can use your reaction to make a weapon attack against the caster. On a hit and dealing damage to the creature, they must succeed on a Concentration check to complete the cast of the spell. You may move up to half your movement for the attack, provided the movement is toward the creature.
• When you damage a creature that is concentrating on a spell, that creature has disadvantage on the saving throw it makes to maintain its concentration.
• While wielding a melee weapon, you can use your reaction to deflect a ranged spell attack targeting you or a creature within 5 feet. When you take this reaction, you also make an attack with your melee weapon. If you beat the caster's ranged spell attack by 5 or more, it is reflected back at the caster or creature within 30 feet of them, dealing damage as if it had targeted that creature. Regardless of your attack's outcome, the missile is still harmlessly deflected away from you.

Air Dash

Starting at 3rd level, you can take the Dash action as a bonus action. Until the end of your turn, attacks made against you in response to your movement are made with disadvantage.

Rushing Wind

Starting at 3rd level, once per turn, on a hit with an attack roll against a Large or smaller creature, you can force them to make a Strength saving throw against your spell save DC. On a failure, the target is pushed back 15 feet, and, on hitting a solid surface after moving at least 5 feet (such as a wall), the target takes an extra 1d8 bludgeoning damage.

Windwaker Magic

You gain access to the spells on the Windwaker Spells table as you level up in this class. When you gain access to a spell, you always have it prepared and it doesn't count against the number of spells you can prepare each day. If you gain access to a spell that doesn't appear on the ranger spell list, the spell is nonetheless a ranger spell for you.

Riding the Wind

Starting at 7th level, when you take damage, you can use your reaction to summon the wind to your defense and halve the damage from the triggering instance. After

damage resolves, you can move in a straight line away from the source of damage an amount up to your movement speed. This movement does not provoke attacks of opportunity.

You may use this feature a number of times up to your proficiency bonus. You regain any expended uses upon completing a long rest.

This feature cannot reduce psychic damage.

Stormwarden

Starting at 7th level, once per turn, when you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can choose to deal 1d6 lightning damage to the target and to another creature within 5 feet of the target.

This extra damage increases to 2d6 lightning damage at 14th level.

Arching Shot

Starting at 11th level, once per turn, when you miss on a weapon attack, you can reroll the attack roll, provided you can see the target. You use the new value regardless of the result.

Mantle of Sky

At 15th level, you can use a bonus action to be as one with the wind for 1 minute- during which you gain the following:

• You have a fly speed of 60 feet
• Rushing Wind can be used twice per turn
• You can spend 5 feet of movement to automatically break away from a grapple
• Creatures you designate within 120 feet on activating this feature gain 10 additional feet of movement for the duration

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

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