Ranger

Favoured Terrain

From 1st level, the terrain in which you trained to become a ranger is so familiar to you that it grants you the upper hand. Choose a type of terrain ─ Arctic, Coast, Desert, Forest, Grassland, Mountain, Swamp, Underdark, or Urban.

When in your favoured terrain, you have advantage on Wisdom (Survival) checks to follow tracks or forage for food, as well as on Intelligence (Nature) checks to recall information about the terrain.

In addition, while within your favoured terrain you have proficiency in Perception and Stealth if you do not already have it. If you already have proficiency in Perception or Stealth, your proficiency bonus is doubled while making ability checks with those skills within your favoured terrain.

At 10th level, you can choose an additional favoured terrain.

Hunter's Quarry

Starting at 1st level you have the iron focus of an experienced tracker.

You may choose one creature you can see within 90 feet and tag it as your prey as a bonus action. You have advantage on any Wisdom (Perception) or Wisdom (Survival) checks you make to find or track it. You also add your proficiency bonus to damage rolls against the target.

Only one creature can be tagged by you at a time. The effect lasts for 8 hours, but you may extend it by another 8 hours by spending 1 minute in contemplation before the 8 hours expires. The effect ends early if the target of your tag ever moves more than 6 miles away from you. You can end the effect early as a free action.

You can activate this feature a number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier and regain all uses when you finish a short or long rest.

Favoured Enemy

Beginning at 2nd level, you have significant experience studying, tracking, and hunting a certain type of enemy.

Choose a type of favored enemy: aberrations, beasts, celestials, constructs, dragons, elementals, fey, fiends, giants, monstrosities, oozes, plants, or undead. The first attack you make against a creature of this subtype on your turn is made with advantage.

In addition, your proficiency bonus is doubled on Wisdom (Survival) checks made to track your favoured enemies, as well as on Intelligence checks to recall information about them.

At 14th level, you can choose an additional favoured enemy.

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.

Land's Stride

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

In addition, you have advantage on saving throws against plants that are magically created or manipulated to impede movement, such those created by the entangle spell.

Tireless

At 10th level, you gain the Tireless feature detailed in Tasha's Cauldron of Everything.

Vanish

Starting at 14th level, you can use the Hide action as a bonus action on your turn. Also, you can’t be tracked by nonmagical means, unless you choose to leave a trail.

Scent Blood

Once you reach 18th level, you can sense when a creature has been reduced to half of its maximum hit points. Your first successful attack against a creature after it has been reduced to half of its maximum hit points is a critical hit.

Foe Slayer

Upon reaching 20th level, once per turn when you hit a creature with a weapon attack on which you have advantage, you can force the target to make a Constitution saving throw (DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your choice of Strength or Dexterity modifier). On a failed save, double the damage of your attack against the creature.

Once a creature fails a saving throw against this feature, you cannot target it with this feature again unless the target is your Favoured Enemy.

Wild Warden Archetype

Weapon Bond

At 3rd level, you learn a ritual that creates a magical bond between yourself and one weapon. You perform the ritual over the course of 1 hour, which can be done during a short rest. The weapon must be within your reach throughout the ritual, at the conclusion of which you touch the weapon and forge the bond.

Once you have bonded a weapon to yourself, you can’t be disarmed of that weapon unless you are incapacitated. If it is on the same plane of existence, you can summon that weapon as a bonus action on your turn, causing it to teleport instantly to your hand. Attacks with this weapon count as magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage.

You can have up to two bonded weapons, but can summon only one at a time with your bonus action. If you attempt to bond with a third weapon, you must break the bond with one of the other two.

Nature's Fury

Starting at 7th level, when you hit a creature tagged with your Hunter's Quarry with a weapon attack, you can expend one spell slot of 1st level or higher to deal extra damage to the target in addition to the weapon's damage. The extra damage is 1d6 for a 1st-level spell slot, plus 1d6 for each spell level higher than 1st, to a maximum of 3d6. The damage is a type of your choice from cold, fire, lightning, or poison.

Bramble Armour

At 11th level, you can summon thorny vines to cover your body as an action. The bramble armour has 5 hit points, and gains an additional 5 hit points at the beginning of each of your turns. Whenever you take damage from a melee attack, the bramble armour takes the damage instead and deals 5 piercing damage to the attacking creature. If an attack reduces the bramble armour to 0 hit points, you take any remaining damage. After one minute, or when the bramble armour is reduced to 0 hit points, it withers and you no longer gain any of its benefits.

Once you use this feature, you cannot do so again until you have finished a short or long rest.

Nature's Blessing

At 15th level, nature bestows upon you a blessing. You learn each of the 5th-level spells listed beside your Favoured Terrains on the Nature's Blessing table below. These spells are considered ranger spells for you and do not count against your spells known.

You can cast a spell learned this way once without expending a spell slot. Once you have used this ability, you cannot do so again until you finish a long rest.