Class : Ravager by

# Ravager
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A dwarf in plate mail laughs as he takes a devastating blow from an orc. His newfound injury only empowers him to hit back even harder at his assailant.

Curling his lips into a cruel smile, a drow lazily slams his warhammer into a wounded hobgoblin. Even lazily executed, his victim is sent careening away with much more force than one would expect.

A knight, bloodied and exhausted, dances with his foe as the moon shines bright. Even though his wounds are fatal, he only swings his blade quicker and with more force and move with far more agility than when unharmed, to the surprise of his enemy.

All of these fighters are ravagers, combatants who appear unassuming at first but grow increasingly deadlier the closer they or their foes are to death. To a ravager, fatal wounds are not impediments - they are a source of empowerment.

### Wounded & Deadly
Ravagers do not supplant their skills with the arcane or the supernatural. Rather, they fuel themselves with the pain that others inflict - even a ravager who is on death's doorstep is a dangerous foe that should not be underestimated.

In combat, wounds that aren't immediately life-threatening only serve as encouragement. Ravagers aren't the most hardy adventurers, but they can still take a beating while proving to be skilled adversaries.

### A Life of Combat
Ravagers are a rare breed of combatants, as not every guard or troop is resilient enough for pain to encourage them to do better on the battlefield. While fighters are a rarity, a ravager is a hidden gem in comparison. They often serve on the front lines, the first to lock themselves in mortal combat, to better use their innate gifts.

Their zeal in the face of death makes ravagers exceptional adventurers. Even alone, death makes for a good companion, provided it's not taking the ravager's head.

### Creating a Ravager
When creating a ravager, consider how they're different from a barbarian or fighter and how to set them apart from the two aforementioned classes. Not every ravager charges recklessly into combat, nor do they always have an extensive knowledge of combat. Second, think about why pain only serves to make them more fierce. Were they born in a rough and unforgiving place that forced them to withstand pain each and every day?

Also consider what led your character to turn to a life of adventuring. Did wanderlust call you away from a sedentary life, or did the allure of treasure charm you? Or perhaps the mundane life you live was not enough and adventure will ail you of your desire for battle.

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##### The Ravager
| Level | Proficiency Bonus | Features | ≤ 80% | ≤ 50% | ≤ 20% |
|:----:|:---:|:----------------------------------|:---:|:---:|:---:|
|  1st | +2  | Fervid Vengeance                  |  +1 |  +1 |  +2 |
|  2nd | +2  | Battle Instinct, Indomitable Will |  +1 |  +1 |  +2 |
|  3rd | +2  | Bloody Aegis, Ravager's Warpath   |  +1 |  +2 |  +3 |
|  4th | +2  | Ability Score Improvement         |  +1 |  +2 |  +3 |
|  5th | +3  | Extra Attack                      |  +2 |  +3 |  +4 |
|  6th | +3  | Ravager's Warpath Feature         |  +2 |  +3 |  +4 |
|  7th | +3  | Staggering Resilience             |  +2 |  +3 |  +4 |
|  8th | +3  | Ability Score Improvement         |  +2 |  +3 |  +4 |
|  9th | +4  | Bloodthirsty Resolve              |  +2 |  +3 |  +5 |
| 10th | +4  | Ravager's Warpath Feature         |  +2 |  +3 |  +5 |
| 11th | +4  | Vicious Rage                      |  +3 |  +4 |  +5 |
| 12th | +4  | Ability Score Improvement         |  +3 |  +4 |  +5 |
| 13th | +5  | Ravager's Warpath Feature         |  +3 |  +4 |  +6 |
| 14th | +5  | Improved Staggering Resilience    |  +3 |  +4 |  +6 |
| 15th | +5  | Retaliation                       |  +3 |  +5 |  +6 |
| 16th | +5  | Ability Score Improvement         |  +3 |  +5 |  +6 |
| 17th | +6  | Ravager's Warpath Feature         |  +4 |  +5 |  +7 |
| 18th | +6  | Impregnable Warrior               |  +4 |  +6 |  +7 |
| 19th | +6  | Ability Score Improvement         |  +4 |  +6 |  +8 |
| 20th | +6  | Unconquerable Might               |  +4 |  +6 |  +8 |

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#### Quick Build
You can create a ravager by following these suggestions. First, Constitution should be your character's highest ability score, followed by Strength or Dexterity (depending on what kind of martial character you want). Then choose the soldier background.

#### Optional Rule : Multiclassing
If your group uses the optional rule on multiclassing in the Player's Handbook, you must meet the prerequisites listed below in order to multiclass into a ravager.

**Ability Score Minimum.** The prerequisite to multiclass into a ravager or take a level in another class if you are already a ravager is a Constitution score of at least 13.

**Proficiencies Gained.** If ravager isn't your initial class, you gain proficiency with light armor, medium armor, and shields.

## Class Features
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As a ravager, you gain the following class features.

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#### Hit Points
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- **Hit Dice :** 1d12 per ravager level
- **Hit Points at 1st Level :** 12 + your Constitution modifier
- **Hit Points at Higher Levels :** 1d12 (or 7) + your Constit-ution modifier per ravager level after 1st level

#### Proficiencies
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- **Armor :** All armor, shields
- **Weapons :** Simple, martial weapons
- **Tools :** None
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- **Saving Throws** : Strength, Constitution
- **Skills** : Choose two from Athletics, Insight, Intimidation, Perception, and Survival

#### Starting Equipment
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You start with the following equipment, as well as equipment granted by your background and any circumstances you may have put into consideration :

- (*a*) a martial weapon and a shield or (*b*) two martial weapons
- (*a*) a dungeoneer’s pack or (*b*) an explorer’s pack
- chain mail

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### Fervid Vengeance
You become increasingly dangerous in combat as your hit points decrease. You get a +1 bonus to attack rolls, damage rolls, and saving throws you make while you are missing at least 20% of your hit points, or a +2 bonus if your hit points are equal to or less than 20% of your maximum hit points.

As you gain more levels as a ravager, the bonuses for missing at least 20%, 50% and 80% of your maximum hit points increase. Round up each time; for example, if you have a maximum of 87 hit points, this feature's intervals are 70, 44, and 18 hit points.

### Battle Instinct
Starting at 2nd level, you can add your proficiency bonus to any initiative roll you make. When you do so, you are dealt 1d6 damage at the start of your second turn. This damage can't be prevented or reduce you to less than 1 hit point.

The damage incurred from exerting yourself increases as you gain more levels in this class. It becomes 2d6 when you reach 7th level, 3d6 at 12th level, and 4d6 at 17th level.

### Indomitable Will
At 2nd level, you have resistance to all damage while you have all of your hit points.

In addition, you can draw upon a limited well of stamina to steel yourself while you're injured. As a bonus action while you are missing at least half of your hit points, you can gain temporary hit points equal to three times your ravager level. Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

### Bloody Aegis
Beginning at 3rd level, your Armor Class is increased by 2 as long as you are missing at least half of your hit points.

### Ravager's Warpath
When you reach 3rd level, you choose a warpath that shapes how you approach combat. The warpath you choose grants you features when you first choose it and again at 6th, 10th, 13th, and 17th level.

### 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.

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### Extra Attack
Starting at 5th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

### Staggering Resilience
Beginning at 7th level, you have resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage as long as you're missing at least half of your hit points. This becomes resistance to all damage when you reach 14th level.

### Bloodthirsty Resolve
At 9th level, you are fearless in the face of death. When you are reduced to 0 hit points or are killed, you are reduced to 1 hit point instead and you are immune to all damage until the end of your next turn.

Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you gain another level as a ravager. Divine intervention or a *wish* spell allows you to use this feature again as though you have not used it before.

### Vicious Rage
Starting at 11th level, as long as you are missing at least half of your hit points, you can make three attacks, instead of two, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

### Retaliation
Starting at 15th level, when you take damage from a creature that is within 5 feet of you, you can use your reaction to make a melee weapon attack against that creature.

### Impregnable Warrior
At 18th level, you become an unshakable bastion in the face of dangerous odds. If damage would reduce you to less than half of your maximum hit points, your hit points are reduced to half of your maximum hit points instead and you become immune to all damage for 1 round. Once you use this feature, you must finish a long rest before using it again.

### Unconquerable Might
At 20th level, you have become a paragon of endurance and survival. If you would take damage greater than 25% of your maximum hit points, the damage dealt is reduced to 25% of your maximum hit points instead unless it ignores immunity. Moreover, your Strength score increases by 4, to a maximum of 24 now.

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# Ravager's Warpath
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The desire for battle haunts every ravager, driving them to perfect the art of combat in their own way. The warpath that you choose reflects your personal strengths and exemplifies your unique combat prowess.

## Desecrator
Desecrators are ravagers who embody physical might and mortal combat. Even when they fail to hit their target, they always leave some sort of mark behind.

### Destructive Aftershock
Starting at 3rd level when you first choose this warpath, your attacks leave an impact even when they miss. When you miss with a melee weapon attack, the target of the attack is dealt 1 damage of your weapon's damage type. Attacks that are made with your bonus action don't trigger this feature.

The damage dealt increases to 2 at 8th level, 3 at 13th level, and 4 at 18th level. Moreover, the damage is also increased by *fervid vengeance* based on your current amount of hit points; for example at 3rd level while you're missing at least half your hit points, this feature deals 3 damage when you miss with an attack.

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### Gargantuan Force
At 6th level, the base damage from *destructive aftershock* is doubled when the triggering attack is made with a weapon that has the *heavy* or *two-handed* property or a weapon that has the *versatile* property that was wielded with two hands. Moreover, damage from *destructive aftershock* is treated as magical for the purpose of ignoring resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage.

### Violent Upheaval
Beginning at 10th level, when you miss with a melee weapon attack, in addition to dealing damage to that attack's target, *destructive aftershock* also deals damage to any number of other creatures of your choice that you can see or are aware of, which don't have total cover, within your weapon's reach.

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### Obliterator's Wrath
Starting at 13th level, whenever a creature is dealt damage by *destructive aftershock*, it must make a Strength saving throw. On a failed save, a creature is knocked prone. The save DC is equal to the damage dealt (damage reduction, resistance, and immunity can lower the save DC). On a success, a creature is unaffected by this feature until the start of your next turn.

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### Overbearing Dominus
Beginning at 17th level, even when you hit a creature with a melee weapon attack, you trigger *destructive aftershock* and *violent upheaval*, except they don't deal damage to the target of the weapon attack or force them to make a saving throw.

## Scourgewolf
Scourgewolves are ravagers who embrace the hunter within. Not even the bulkiest armor or heaviest shield will impede a scourgewolf chasing their foes.

### Bloodied Swiftness
Starting at 3rd level when you first choose this warpath, your movement speed is increased by 10 feet as long as you are missing at least half of your hit points. This increases to 20 feet at 10th level. In addition, the armor you wear no longer imposes disadvantage on Stealth checks that you make.

### Savage Stride
Beginning at 6th level, difficult terrain doesn't cost you extra movement while you're missing any hit points. In addition, your speed can't be reduced by any means except by being grappled or restrained.

### Daunting Visage
At 10th level, you evoke an aura of dread around others while grievously injured. Opportunity attacks that are made against you have disadvantage while you are missing at least half of your hit points. Moreover, you can't be charmed or frightened while you're conscious.

### Expeditious Charge
Starting at 13th level, your hunger for battle grows even more unsatisfied. Your speed is doubled during the first two rounds of combat. You can't use this feature when you're surprised.

### Bloodthirsty Fangs
At 17th level, you are driven into a frenzy by the wounds of your enemies. As long as a hostile creature within 60 feet of you is missing any of its hit points and *fervid vengeance* isn't active, you gain a +2 bonus to attack rolls, damage rolls, and saving throws that you make.

## Winterwraith
Winterwraiths are ravagers gifted with the ability to use the arcane arts, specializing in frost magic. While not every spell you cast will freeze your opposition, the spells that you know augment your formidable combat skills.

### Spellcasting
When you first choose this warpath at 2nd level, you augment your martial prowess with the ability to cast spells.

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#### Cantrips
You learn two cantrips of your choice from the winterwraith spell list. When you reach 10th level, you learn an additional winterwraith cantrip of your choice.

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#### Spell Slots
The Winterwraith table shows how many spell slots you have to cast your winterwraith spells of 1st level and higher. To cast one of these spells, you must expend a slot of the spell’s level or higher. You regain all expended spell slots when you finish a long rest.

For example, if you know the 1st-level spell *ice knife* and have a 1st-level and a 2nd-level spell slot available, you can cast *ice knife* using either slot.

#### Spells Known of 1st Level and Higher
You know three 1st-level winterwraith spells of your choice.

The Spells Known column of the Winterwraith table shows when you learn more winterwraith spells of 1st level and higher. Each of these spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots. For instance, when you reach 7th level in this class, you can learn one new spell of 1st or 2nd level.

In addition, whenever you gain a level in this class, you can replace one of the winterwraith spells you know with another spell of your choice from the winterwraith spell list. The new spell must be of a level for which you have spell slots.

#### Spellcasting Ability
Wisdom is your spellcasting modifier for your winterwraith spells, since your magic stems from your innate connection to winter. You use your Wisdom whenever a winterwraith spell refers to your spellcasting ability. Moreover, you use your Wisdom modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a winterwraith spell you cast and when making an attack roll with one.

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### Arctic Harbinger
Beginning at 6th level, the bonus from *fervid vengeance* applies to the spell save DC of your winterwraith spells. Moreover, you also now have resistance to cold damage.

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##### The Winterwraith
| Ravager Level | Cantrips | Spells Known  | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th |
|:----:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|
|  3rd |  2  |  3  |  2  |  —  |  —  |  —  |
|  4th |  2  |  4  |  3  |  —  |  —  |  —  |
|  5th |  2  |  4  |  3  |  —  |  —  |  —  |
|  6th |  2  |  5  |  3  |  —  |  —  |  —  |
|  7th |  2  |  5  |  4  |  2  |  —  |  —  |
|  8th |  2  |  6  |  4  |  2  |  —  |  —  |
|  9th |  2  |  6  |  4  |  2  |  —  |  —  |
| 10th |  3  |  7  |  4  |  3  |  —  |  —  |
| 11th |  3  |  7  |  4  |  3  |  —  |  —  |
| 12th |  3  |  8  |  4  |  3  |  —  |  —  |
| 13th |  3  |  8  |  4  |  3  |  2  |  —  |
| 14th |  3  |  9  |  4  |  3  |  2  |  —  |
| 15th |  3  |  9  |  4  |  3  |  2  |  —  |
| 16th |  3  | 10  |  4  |  3  |  3  |  —  |
| 17th |  3  | 10  |  4  |  3  |  3  |  —  |
| 18th |  3  | 11  |  4  |  3  |  3  |  1  |
| 19th |  3  | 11  |  4  |  3  |  3  |  1  |
| 20th |  3  | 12  |  4  |  3  |  3  |  1  |

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### Winter's Wrath
When you reach 10th level, your winterwraith spells ignore damage resistance. While you're missing at least half of your hit points, they also deal half damage, instead of no damage, to a creature that has immunity to the damage type they are dealing.

### Chilling Rebuke
At 13th level, when you take damage from a creature within 10 feet of you, you can use your reaction to cast one of your winterwraith spells at that creature. The spell must have a casting time of 1 action and must target only that creature.

### Glacial Scion
Starting at 17th level, you can cast one of your winterwraith spells of 1st level or higher with a casting time of 1 action in place of one of your attacks when you take the Attack action and make multiple attacks with it. In addition, you now have immunity to cold damage.

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## Winterwraith Spells

##### Cantrips (0 Level)
- Chill Touch
- Frostbite
- Gust
- Mage Hand
- Minor Illusion
- Prestidigitation
- Ray of Frost
- Shape Water

##### 1st Level
- Absorb Elements
- Bane
- Cause Fear
- Create or Destroy Water
- Detect Magic
- Disguise Self
- Expeditious Retreat
- Feather Fall
- Fog Cloud
- Ice Knife
- Illusory Script
- Inflict Wounds
- Silent Image
- Sleep

##### 2nd Level
- Blur
- Darkness
- Gust of Wind
- Invisibility
- Knock
- Mirror Image
- Misty Step
- Pass Without Trace
- Rime's Binding Ice
- Snilloc's Snowball Swarm

##### 3rd Level
- Bestow Curse
- Dispel Magic
- Fear
- Major Image
- Nondetection
- Sleet Storm
- Tidal Wave
- Vampiric Touch

##### 4th Level
- Confusion
- Control Water
- Greater Invisibility
- Ice Storm
- Watery Sphere

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