Focused Precision

Archers are known for their unparalleled accuracy and precision when it comes to ranged combat. They train tirelessly to hit their targets with pinpoint accuracy, making every shot count. This precision is not limited to mere attacks; archers possess a keen eye for detail, enabling them to perceive crucial information even in the heat of battle. Archers possess a pool of Focus Points, which they use to perform special techniques during combat. These techniques are diverse, including Deadly Shot, which sacrifices accuracy for devastating damage, and Twin Shot, allowing archers to target multiple foes in a single attack. Archers can choose from these techniques to suit their combat style and adapt to different challenges.

Adventurous Spirit

Archers embody an adventurous spirit that thrives on the uncharted territories and untamed wilderness, where the thrill of uncertainty beckons. They revel in the heart of the wild, attuning their senses to the environment. Nature becomes their ally, enhancing their mastery of ranged weaponry, and they navigate the wilds with unmatched grace and cunning.

In the simplicity of the wilderness, archers find solace and camaraderie. Bonds formed around campfires under starlit skies become unbreakable, and they embrace challenges fearlessly. Whether pursuing riches, battling monsters, or seeking personal growth, they live for the moments their skills are tested, arrows find their mark, and the thrill of the unknown calls them forward. This adventurous spirit is their guiding light, pushing them to seek the extraordinary, face the unknown, and emerge victorious.

Creating an Archer

If you seek a class that excels in precision and finesse in combat, the Archer is an ideal choice. Archers are often characterized by their unwavering focus, patience, and unerring aim. Playing an Archer could tie to a character's background as a hunter, guardian, or a soldier from a ranged-combat-focused culture.

Expect a character that excels at eliminating threats before they even get close, providing essential support from afar, and making every arrow or projectile count.

Quick Build

To quickly create an Archer, prioritize Dexterity for accurate shots, followed by Wisdom for perceptive skills. Your choice of Ranged Mastery should align with your character's background and intended playstyle.

Hit Points

• Hit Dice: 1d8 per archer level
• Hit Points at 1st Level: 8 + your Constitution Modifier

Deadly Shot

You may Spend 1 Focus point to gain disadvantage on the attack roll of your next ranged weapon attack. However, on a hit, you roll 2 additional weapon damage dice when determining damage.

Twin Shot

You may spend 3 Focus points when you make an attack against a creature with a ranged weapon. You can make another attack against another creature within 5 feet of the initial target.

Bloodletting Shot

You may spend 2 Focus points when you hit a creature with a ranged weapon attack. The target must make a Constitution saving throw or take damage equal to your Dexterity modifier at the start of their turn. The creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns to end this effect.

Archery

You are a skilled and focused marksman. You gain a +1 bonus to attack rolls you make with bows, launch weapons, and crossbows. Additionally, if you have not move during your turn, you can spend a bonus action to aim carefully, giving yourself advantage on your next attack. After you use this ability, your speed becomes 0 until the start of your next turn.

Blind Fighting

You have trained to fight an unseen creature using your focus and senses other than sight. 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.

Close Quarters Shooter

You are trained in making quick and accurate ranged attacks in close quarters. All ranged weapons you wield gain the hipshot property. If an creature misses you with a melee attack, as a reaction, you can make a ranged weapon attack against that creature. Finally, you ignore half and three-quarters cover when an creature is within 30ft of you.

Marksmen

You have trained in the use and reloading of firearms. You gain a +1 bonus to damage rolls you make with firearms. Additionally, you can decrease your reload time by one but gain -1 to your next attack roll and +1 to your misfire chance, or your could increase your reload time by one but gain -1 to your next attack roll and -1 to your misfire chance.

Thrown Weapon Fighting

You throw weapons with extreme accuracy. Weapons with the thrown property deal an additional +2 bonus to damage and your attacks with them ignore half and three-quarters cover. Additionally, you can forgo your proficiency bonus to hit, but if your attack lands, you deal extra damage equal to double your proficiency bonus.

Two-Weapon Fighting

You are a balanced and ambidextrous warrior. When you engage in two-weapon fighting, you can add your ability modifier to the damage of the second attack. You make the attack with your off hand as part of your attack action, instead of a bonus action. Finally, when you make an opportunity attack, you can attack with both weapons instead of one.

Evasion

When you are subjected to an effect, such as a red dragon’s fiery breath or a lightning bolt spell, that allows you to make a Dexterity saving throw to take only half damage, you instead take no damage if you succeed on a saving throw, and only half damage if you fail

Misdirection

When a creature that you can see makes a melee weapon attack against you and misses, you can use your reaction to force that creature to repeat the same attack against another creature (other than itself) of your choice.

Uncanny Dodge

You gain an additional reaction to use every round. When an attacker that you can see hits you with an attack, you can use a reaction to halve the attack’s damage against you.

Volley

You may spend 3 Focus Points when you make an attack against a creature with a ranged weapon to rain down a flurry of projectiles in a 30-foot radius. All creatures within the area must make a DC Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, a creature takes damage equal to your weapon damage. On a successful save, the creature takes half damage.

Far Shot

You may spend 3 Focus points when you make an attack against a target with a ranged weapon. The range of your attack is doubled, and you ignore disadvantage imposed by long range for that attack.

Ranger's Retreat

You may spend 1 Focus point to move up to half your speed without provoking opportunity attacks.

Deflective Shot

You may spend 2 Focus points when another creature makes an attack against you with a ranged weapon. As a reaction, you can roll a ranged weapon attack against the attacking creature. If your attack roll is higher than the attacker's, you deflect the projectile, causing it to miss you. On a successful deflect, you may spend an additional 2 Focus Points to deflect the projectile back at the attacker, causing the attacker to take the attack's damage.

Perfect Shot

You may spend 6 Focus points to ensure your next attack with a ranged weapon cannot miss, automatically hitting the target regardless of AC or cover.

Time Stopper

You may spend 15 Focus points to enter a state of temporal mastery, granting yourself an additional turn immediately after your regular turn for 1 minute.

Ranger's Hideout

"Legendary masters of shortbows, they can unleash a hail of arrows faster and further than any other force in the realm."

First Bullet Aleph

You may spend 2 Focus points to infuse your projectile with sped up time. When you make a ranged weapon attack against a creature and you hit, the creature is immediately affected by the Haste spell until the end of your next turn. The creature gains all the benefits and drawbacks of the Haste spell as described in the spell's description.

Second Bullet Bet

You may spend 2 Focus points to infuse your projectile with slowed down time. When you make a ranged weapon attack against a creature and you hit, the creature is immediately affected by the Slow spell until the end of your next turn. The creature gains all the benefits and drawbacks of the Slow spell as described in the spell's description.

Third Bullet Gimmel

You may spend 1 focus point to infuse your projectile with sped up time. When you make a ranged weapon attack against an object and you hit, the object magically ages 1 year.

Fourth Bullet Dalet

You may spend 1 focus point to infuse your projectile with reversed time. When you make a ranged weapon attack against an object and you hit, the object's age is reduced by one year, and any physical changes or conditions gained during that time are reversed.

Fifth Bullet Hei

You may spend 5 focus points to catch glimpses of the future. The GM determines the contents of the vision. It is a truthful vision, but does not take into consideration any possible major events that could affect the possible future such as divine intervention. If you use this technique again before finishing a long rest, you suffer 1 level of exhaustion.

Sixth Bullet Vav

You may spend 3 focus points to infuse your projectile with reversed time. As a reaction, when another creature makes a saving throw, attack roll, or skill check, you may make a ranged weapon attack against a creature and if you hit, that creature is reversed back in time, causing them to reroll the saving throw, attack roll, or skill check..

Seventh Bullet Zayin

You may spend 4 Focus points to infuse your projectile with stopped time. When you make a ranged weapon attack against a creature and you hit, the creature falls into a state of suspended time for 1 minute until the end of your next turn. While in this state of suspended time, the creature is blinded, deafened, incapacitated, paralyzed, petrified, restrained, stunned, and unconscious.

Eighth Bullet Het

You may spend 10 focus points to infuse your projectile with split time. When you make a ranged weapon attack against a creature and you hit, a clone of the creature is created in a 5ft space near the creature. The clone is physically identical to the original and has the same personality, memories, and non magical equipment but not abilities from your class. The clone lasts for 8 hours or until it drops to 0 hitpoints.

Eleventh Bullet Yud Aleph

You may spend 15 focus points to infuse your projectile with the future. When you make a ranged weapon attack against a creature and you hit, the creature is immediately affected by the Foresight spell for 24 hours. The creature gains all the benefits and drawbacks of the Foresight spell as described in the spell's description.

Twelfth Bullet Yud Bet

You may spend 20 focus points to infuse your projectile with the past. When you make a ranged weapon attack against a creature and you hit, the planes of existence rewinds back 2 minutes except for the targeted creature. Only the targetted creature remembers the 2 minutes that were rewinded. Once you use this feature, you gain 2 levels of exhaustion and you may not use it again until 20 days have passed.

Bonus Proficiencies

At 1st level, you become proficient with Dexterity, and Charisma saving throws and gain Master Training with crossbows.

Piercing Bolts

Also at 1st level, your bolts can hit an additional number of creatures equal to your proficiency bonus in a line directly behind your target. You make a seperate attack roll for each hostile creature you hit. Your attack roll towards your first target gains advantage at 13th level.

Barrage

At 2nd level, you can use your reaction to gain an additional attack when you take the attack action until the start of your next turn. You can use this feature an amount of times equal to your Dexterity Modifier. You regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest. Barrage last for an additional 1, 2, and 3 turns at 6th, 10th, and 14th level respectively.

Falconer

At 6th level, you may spend 3 focus points to summon a small flying beast with a CR equal to half your level as a bonus action. The creature is friendly towards you and obeys all your commands. You can telepathically communicate with the creature as long as the two of you are on the same plane of existence. In combat, the creature acts during your turn. It can move and use its reaction on its own, but the only action it takes is the Dodge action, unless you take a bonus action on your turn to command it to take another action. That action can be one in its stat block or some other action. If you are incapacitated, the creature can take any action of its choice, not just Dodge.

Additionally, as an action, you can see through the creature's eyes and hear what it hears until the start of your next turn, during this time you gain the blinded and deafened conditions. The beast lasts until it dies, you fall unconscious, or 24 hours have past.

Hawkeye

When you reach 7th level, your bond with your falcon helps you and allies react quicker in combat. Whenever you or a creature of your choice within 10 feet of you makes an attack roll, saving throw, or skill check, the creature gains a bonus to the roll equal to your Charisma modifier. The radius of this feature increases to 20 feet at 11th level and 30 feet at 15th level.

Reactive

Starting at 9th level, you become more reactive and aware of your surrounding environment, you and your summon may take an additional reaction each round.

Aerial Monstrosity

At 13th level, your experience with flying creature have taught you how to summon any flying creature. The size of the creature summoned can now be medium or large and doesn't follow any creature type restrictions, you still follow all other restrictions when summoning your flying creature.

You gain a flying speed equal to your summon's flying speed.

Sensual Bond

When you reach 17th level, you and your creature have reach a connection where you can share your consciousness with each other. You and your creature can instantaneously share words, images, sounds, and other sensory messages with each other. Additionally, the size of the creature summoned can now be huge.

Skystalker

At 20th level, your bond with your summon becomes absolute, transcending the boundaries of the physical world. When you and your summon are within 30 feet of each other, you both gain advantage on saving throws, attack rolls, and skill checks. You may spend 10 focus points to conjure up a legendary flying creature to aid you. This creature has a size category of Gargantuan and can be any creature type. Its CR is equal to your level. The creature is friendly to you and acts on it's own initiave. The creature lasts for up to 1 hour or until it is reduced to 0 hit points.

Bonus Proficiencies

At 1st level, you become proficient with Wisdom, and Charisma saving throws and gain Master Training with all weapons with the thrown property.

Totem of Weakness

Also at 1st level, you can use your action to spawn a totem in an empty space within 30ft of you that lasts for 1 minute. The totem makes creatures of your choosing within 30 ft of it deals half as much damage as usual. You can use this feature an amount of times equal to your Constitution Modifier. You regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest. The totem's range, the range you can place it and the duration is increased to 60 ft and 1 hour, and creatures that are affected by the totem gains vulnerability to all damage at 13th level.

Totem of Silencing

At 2nd level, you can use your action to spawn a totem in an empty space within 15ft of you that lasts for 1 hour. All creatures within the totem's radius of 10ft are affected by the Silence spell. The creature gains all the benefits and drawbacks of the Silence spell as described in the spell's description. You can use this feature an amount of times equal to your Constitution Modifier. You regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest. The radius of which you can place the totem and the radius of the totem increases to 30 feet and the duration increases to 2 hours at 6th level. The radius of which you can place the totem and the radius of the totem increases to 45 feet and the duration increases to 3 hours at 10th level. The range where you can place the totem and the radius of the totem increases to 60 feet and the duration increases to 4 hours at 14th level.

Totem Techniques

At 6th level, you have become attuned to the art of totems. You gain a list of special totems you can use as Focus Techniques to choose from, these totems use the Totem stat block:

Totem of Undying

When you reach 7th level, you can spend a full rest conjuring a magical miniature totem, you can use your object interaction to give this totem to a creature of your choice and if it is in their hand when they drop to 0 hitpoints, the totem turns to dust while they return with the benefits of a full rest. You can have only one item created by this feature at a time; if you use this feature and already have a totem from this feature, the first one immediately turns to dust. You can use this feature once every 3d4 days. The totem grants resistance to the damage type that killed the creature for the rest of the day at 11th level and the feature comes back in 2d4 days. The totem grants immunity to the damage type that killed the creature for the rest of the day at 15th level and the feature comes back in 1d4 days.

Totem of Return

When you reach 9th level, a Totem of Return has manifested on your body. Whenever you make a ranged weapon attack with a weapon which has the thrown property, the weapon flies back to your hand at the start of your next turn. If there is no clear path, the weapon stays where it landed. Otherwise, elemental winds guide the weapon instantly through the air back to your hand. The weapon can pass though openings as narrow as 10 inches wide and can change direction to fly around corners.

Additional Totem Techniques

At 13th level, the elements have chosen you as their champion. You gain a list of special totems you can use as Focus Techniques to choose from, these totems use the Elemental Totem stat block:

Totem of Conquest

You may spend 10 focus points to summon an apocalypse totem from below the ground in an empty space within 120 feet of you as a bonus action. The totem has a radius of 60 feet and lasts for 1 minute or until it drops to 0 hitpoints. When you summon this totem, you choose any number of creatures within the radius to be the target of your totem's dark influence. The chosen creatures must make a Wisdom saving throw against the totem DC or become frightened. While frightened, the target's speed is reduced to 0, and it cannot willingly move closer to the totem. Additionally, creatures of your choosing within the radius of the totem becomes immune to the frightened condition.

Totem of War

You may spend 10 focus points to summon an apocalypse totem from below the ground in an empty space within 120 feet of you as a bonus action. The totem has a radius of 60 feet and lasts for 1 minute or until it drops to 0 hitpoints. When you summon this totem, it empowers you and your allies with a fierce battle rage. All creatures of your choosing within the radius of the totem gain advantage on all attack rolls and saving throws while the totem is active. Additionally, the totem grants those creatures within the radius resistance to all damage types.

Whenever you or an allied creature within the totem's radius score a critical hit, you regain 1 focus point. This effect can only occur once per round.

Totem of Famine

You may spend 10 focus points to summon an apocalypse totem from below the ground in an empty space within 120 feet of you as a bonus action. The totem has a radius of 60 feet and lasts for 1 minute or until it drops to 0 hitpoints. When you summon this totem, it fills the area with an aura of hunger and decay. All creatures of your choosing within the radius of the totem gain the ability to drain the life force from their targets. Whenever a creature of your choosing makes a successful melee attack against a target within the radius of the totem, it regains hit points equal to half the damage dealt. Additionally, creatures of your choosing must make a Constitution saving throw against the totem DC at the start of their turn or gain 1 level of exhaustion.

Totem of Death

You may spend 10 focus points to summon an apocalypse totem from below the ground in an empty space within 120 feet of you as a bonus action. The totem has a radius of 60 feet and lasts for 1 minute or until it drops to 0 hitpoints. When you summon this totem, it exudes an aura of death and decay, causing all creatures of your choosing within the radius of the totem to take necrotic damage equal to your Wisdom modifier at the start of their turn. Furthermore, any creature that dies within the radius of the totem has its soul trapped within the totem. You gain temporary hit points equal to the maximum hit points of each trapped soul at the start of your turn as long as your within the radius of the totem. These temporary hit points last until the totem's duration expires. When the totem's duration ends, the trapped souls are released, and you gain a number of hit points equal to the total number of trapped souls.

Totem

Medium Construct

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• Armor Class 15 + your Wisdom Modifier
• Evasion Class 10 + your Wisdom Modifier
• Armor Reduction 3 + your Wisdom Modifier
• Hit Points 2 x your level
• Speed 0 ft

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
10 (0)	10 (0)	10 (0)	10 (0)	10 (0)	10 (0)

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• Damage Immunities Poison, Psychic
• Condition Immunities Blind, Charmed, Frightened, Incapacitated, Overwhelmed, Paralyzed, Poisoned, Sickened, Silenced, Stunned, Stupefied, Unconscious

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Elemental Totem

Medium Construct

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• Armor Class 19 + your Wisdom Modifier
• Evasion Class 11 + your Wisdom Modifier
• Armor Reduction 5 + your Wisdom Modifier
• Hit Points 5 x your level
• Speed 0 ft

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
10 (0)	10 (0)	10 (0)	10 (0)	10 (0)	10 (0)

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• Damage Immunities Poison, Psychic
• Condition Immunities Blind, Charmed, Frightened, Incapacitated, Overwhelmed, Paralyzed, Poisoned, Sickened, Silenced, Stunned, Stupefied, Unconscious
• Challenge 0

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Apocalypse Totem

Medium Construct

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• Armor Class 23 + your Wisdom Modifier
• Evasion Class 12 + your Wisdom Modifier
• Armor Reduction 7 + your Wisdom Modifier
• Hit Points 10 x your level
• Speed 0 ft

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
10 (0)	10 (0)	10 (0)	10 (0)	10 (0)	10 (0)

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• Damage Immunities Poison, Psychic
• Condition Immunities Blind, Charmed, Frightened, Incapacitated, Overwhelmed, Paralyzed, Poisoned, Sickened, Silenced, Stunned, Stupefied, Unconscious
• Challenge 0

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Apocalypse. Upon reaching to 0 hitpoints, creates an explosion within 15 ft of it. All creatures withing the radius must make a Dexterity Saving Throw, taking 10d6 force damage on a failed save and half as much on a successful save.

Bonus Proficiencies

At 1st level, you become proficient with Wisdom, and Dexterity saving throws and gain Master Training with all ranged weapons.

Arcane Arrows

Also at 1st level, your arrows become enchanted with arcane energy. When you make a ranged weapon attack and hit, if the creature has the Magic Resistance X trait, the trait is reduced by 1, Magic Resistance 2 becomes Magic Resistance 1, otherwise the creature gains disadvantage on saving throws they make against spells and magical effects.

At 13th level, when you make a ranged weapon attack and hit, if the creature has the Magic Resistance X trait, the trait is reduced by 2. In addition, your arrows count as magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage.

Spellcasting

When you reach 2nd level, you augment your ranged prowess with the ability to cast spells.