The Focused Ranger

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.

Revised Fighting Styles are optional but recommended.

Hunter's Focus

Beginning at 2nd level, you can heighten your senses and focus them onto a creature, marking it as your quarry.

You can use a bonus action to mark a creature you can see within 90 feet as your focused prey.

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. Beginning at 6th level, you regain all expended uses when you finish a short or long rest.

The target is marked until you finish a long rest, are rendered unconscious, or use this feature again to target another creature.

While a creature is marked, you gain the following benefits:

Hunter's Reflex. Your mark provokes opportunity attacks from you even if it takes the Disengage action before leaving your reach.

Hunter's Strike. Once per turn, when you make an attack against your mark, you can roll your Focus Die and add it to either the attack roll or the damage roll. You can choose to use this feature before or after the roll, but before any effects of the roll are applied. If added to the damage, it is of the same type as the attack's damage.

Beginning at 11th level, you can apply your Hunter's Strike whenever you make an attack against your mark, instead of only once per turn.

Ranger Archetype

Also at 3rd level, you choose to emulate the ideals and training of a ranger archetype, all detailed at the end of the class description. Some rangers of the same archetype form so called Conclaves, loose organizations aimed to focus, guide, and further the knowledge and training of their shared philosophy.

Your archetype choice grants you features at 3rd level and again at 7th, 11th, and 15th level.

Archetype Spells

Each archetype has a list of associated spells. You gain access to these spells at the levels specified in the archetype description. Once you gain access to an archetype spell, you always have it prepared. Archetype spells don't count against the number of spells you can prepare each day.

If you gain an archetype spell that doesn't appear on the ranger spell list, the spell is nonetheless a ranger spell for you.

Cunning Action

Starting at 3rd level, your focus and agility allow you to move and act quickly.

You can take the Dash, Disengage, or Hide action as a bonus action on your turn.

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. As normal, you can't increase an ability score above 20 using this feature.

Extra Attack

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

Quick Stride

Starting at 6th level, you can swiftly move where others struggle.

While you aren't wearing heavy armor, your speed increases by 10 feet and moving through nonmagical difficult terrain — as well as climbing and swimming — costs you no extra movement.

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Superior Senses

At 10th level, you have honed your senses to perfection.

As long as you aren't both blinded and deafened, you have blindsight with a range of 30 feet. Within that range, you can effectively see anything that isn't behind total cover. Moreover, you can see an invisible creature within that range, unless the creature successfully hides from you.

Ranger's Resilience

At 14th level, surviving the harshness of the wilds has steeled your body, mind and soul.

When you make a saving throw, you can add your Focus Die to the roll. You can choose to use this feature before or after the roll, but before any effects of the roll are applied.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum of once). You regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Heightened Focus

At 18th level, your ability to focus on any given task has become second nature.

You can always choose to reroll your Focus Die but you must use the second result.

Apex Predator

At 20th level, you learned how to act with incredible speed.

Once per round, after another creature has taken its turn, you can take a special action. You can use this special action to move up to half your movement speed and take either the Attack (one weapon attack only), Dash, Disengage, Hide, or Use an Object action.

If you are surprised at the start of an encounter, you are not surprised but you do not gain this extra action in the first round of combat.

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Archetype Spells

You gain archetype spells at the ranger levels listed.

Urban Explorer

At 3rd level, you have adapted to navigate and survive within an urban jungle.

You can add your Focus Die on your ability checks made to identify structural hazards (such as loose shingles or collapsing floors and ceilings).

In addition, squeezing through tight spaces — as well as moving through dense crowds — costs you no extra movement and you don't suffer the normal penalties while doing so.

Takedown

Also at 3rd level, you have become an expert in taking down your quarry.

You can use a bonus action to Shove a Large or smaller creature and you can add your Focus Die on the corresponding Strength (Athletics) check.

Infiltrate & Investigate

At 7th level, you know how to vanish from sight by blending in.

You can add your Focus Die on your ability checks made to blend in with a crowd or to disguise and present yourself as a member of a select group (e.g. a religious cult or a merchants guild).

In addition, whenever you make an Intelligence (Investigation) check, treat a roll of 7 or lower on the d20 as an 8.

Pin Down

At 11th level, you have learned how to pin your quarry to the ground.

When you are within 5 feet of a prone creature, you can use your reaction to make a single weapon attack against it.

In addition, once on each of your turns, when you hit a Large or smaller prone creature with a weapon attack, it must succeed on a Strength saving throw against your spell save DC or have its movement speed reduced to 0 until the beginning of your next turn.

Pierce the Veil

Beginning at 15th level, no trick or illusion can fool your senses.

You gain truesight out to a range of 30 feet.

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Archetype Spells

You gain archetype spells at the ranger levels listed.

Cultural Immersion

Beginning at 3rd level, you have the ability to mystically connect to the local culture, be that a remote dwarven clan, a wild gnoll tribe, or the drow capital of Menzoberranzan.

You can touch a creature as an action and absorb their knowledge of their culture, such as traditions, common laws, well known myths, legends and history, accepted courtesies and cultural taboos, provided that the target possesses that knowledge.

Once you have immersed yourself in a creature's culture, you can also speak, read, and write its most prominent language, and you have advantage on Charisma checks when dealing with the local population or when trying to pass as a native.

You retain these benefits (including the language) until you use this feature again.

Horizon Leap

Also at 3rd level, you can use minor magic to propel you into the air.

As a bonus action, you can give yourself a flying speed equal to your current walking speed that lasts until the end of your turn. This only works in short bursts; you fall if you end your turn in the air and nothing else is holding you aloft.

Ethereal Flicker

At 7th level, you can partially step into the Border Ethereal, in order to protect you from harm. When you suffer damage from an attack or by failing a saving throw, you can use your reaction to gain resistance to all that damage except force and psychic damage.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier (a minimum of once), and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Find the Gate

Also at 7th level, you develop a keen sense for the realms beyond the material plane and the portals that lead to them.

By focusing your senses for 1 minute, you can detect the distance and direction to any planar portal within 1 mile of you as long as it isn't hidden from divination magic.

In addition, you can spend 1 uninterrupted hour analyzing a portal to discern its properties, such as the plane it leads to, the requirements necessary for its activation, or any dangers that might be involved by using it.

Blink 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.

In addition, if a creature hits or misses you with an attack, you can use your reaction to teleport up to 10 feet and make a single weapon attack against that creature, provided that the creature isn't hidden from you. You can choose to make the attack before or after you teleport.

Step Beyond

At 15th level, you learn how to step beyond the horizon and into the multiverse.

You can cast either etherealness, plane shift, or teleport once without expending a spell slot. You can’t do so again until you finish a long rest.

In addition, you have advantage on any ability check or saving throw you make to resist or control any specific feature of any plane you are visiting (e.g. the Shadowfell's Despair, the Feywild's Memory Loss, or the Limbo's Power of Mind).

Archetype Spells

You gain archetype spells at the ranger levels listed.

Intimidating Presence

Starting at 3rd level, embracing your primal predator nature triggers the flight or fight instinct in others.

You can add your Focus Die on your Charisma (Intimidation) checks as well as saving throws you make to prevent or end the frightened condition.

Wild Shape

Also starting at 3rd level, you can use your action to magically assume the shape of a beast that you have seen before. This ability functions like the druid ability of the same name — using your ranger level instead of your druid level. If you gain this ability from multiple sources, you don't gain any additional uses, but you can add all corresponding class levels together to determine its limitations.

Conclave Forms

The rites of your conclave also grant you the ability to transform into more dangerous animal forms as well as regenerate while in animal form:

• You can transform into a beast with a challenge rating as high as your ranger level divided by 4 (minimum CR 1/2). You ignore the Max. CR column of the Beast Shapes table, but must abide by the other limitations there.
• While you are transformed by Wild Shape, you can use a bonus action to expend one spell slot to regain 1d8 hit points per level of the spell slot expended.

Primal Resilience

Starting at 7th level, your primal nature makes you more resilient, no matter the form you take.

While in your normal form, your natural Armor Class equals 10 + your Dexterity modifier + your Constitution modifier. You can use your natural armor to determine your AC if the armor you wear would leave you with a lower AC. A shield's benefits apply as normal while you use your natural armor.

While you are transformed by Wild Shape, you can add your proficiency bonus to your armor class, and when you expend a spell slot to regain hit points in your beast form, you regain an additional number of hit points equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum of 0).

Primal Fury

At 11th level, you can unleash your bestial nature onto your enemies. Regardless of your current form, you can add your proficiency bonus to the damage dealt by your unarmed strikes or natural attacks and they count as magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to non-magical attacks and damage.

In addition, when you take damage from a creature that is within 5 feet of you, you can use your reaction to make a single melee weapon attack against that creature.

Primal Mastery

Beginning at 15th level, you can now Wild Shape using a bonus action and you can expend two uses of Wild Shape to transform into a beast with a challenge rating as high as half your ranger level.

In addition, you can cast many of your ranger spells in any shape you assume using Wild Shape. You can perform the somatic and verbal components of a ranger spell while in a beast shape, but you aren't able to provide material components.

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Archetype Spells

You gain archetype spells at the ranger levels listed.

Dread Ambusher

At 3rd level, you learn how to strike dread and terror into your enemies' hearts.

Once per turn, when you are unseen by a creature and hit it with an attack, the target must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC or become frightened of you until the end of your next turn.

Shadow's Cover

Also at 3rd level, you learn how to utilize shadows and natural obfuscation to your advantage.

You can try to hide even when you are only lightly obscured (e.g. by dim light, patchy fog, or moderate foliage).

In addition, while in darkness, you are invisible to any creature that relies on darkvision to see you in that darkness.

Fear the Unseen

At 7th level, you have conquered your own fears and know how to cause lingering fear in others.

You can no longer be frightened.

In addition, creatures frightened by your spells or abilities have disadvantage on ability checks and attack rolls even if they can't see you.

Umbral Sight

Also at 7th level, your sight can pierce even the deepest darkness.

Within 120 feet of you, you can see in dim light and darkness (both magical and nonmagical) as if it were bright light.

Night Terror

At 11th level, you have become a master at striking your enemies when they are unaware or distracted.

When a creature you can see ends its turn while you are considered hidden from it or fails a saving throw to prevent being frightened, you can use your reaction to make a single weapon attack against that creature.

In addition, when you are hidden and miss a creature with a weapon attack, making the attack doesn't reveal your position.

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, you can choose to roll your Focus Die and add its result to your AC against this attack. You must use this feature before you know the outcome of the attack roll.

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

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Archetype Spells

You gain archetype spells at the ranger levels listed.

Slayer's Sense

Beginning at 3rd level, you have learned how to tap into the collective knowledge of the Slayer Conclave in order to predict the abilities, behaviors, and characteristics of different types of creatures.

As an action, choose one creature you can see within 60 feet of you. You immediately learn whether the creature has any damage immunities, resistances, or vulnerabilities, as well as what they are and how they typically behave. If the creature is hidden from divination magic, you sense that it has no damage immunities, resistances, or vulnerabilities.

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.

Slayer Tactics

At 3rd level, you learn specialized tactics to bring down your prey. Whenever you finish a long rest, choose a number of benefits equal to your proficiency bonus from the following list, replacing the ones you have chosen before.

Avoid the Basilisk's Gaze. When you attack a creature you can't see, your inability to see it doesn't impose disadvantage on your attack rolls against it.

Between Hammer and Anvil. Creatures don't gain advantage on attack rolls against you from special features such as Pack Tactics, or when using the Help action or the optional flanking rule.

Clip the Wings. When you hit a flying creature with an attack, you can choose to deal no damage and instead force the creature to succeed on a Strength saving throw or be knocked prone. The DC equals 10 or half the damage you would have dealt, whichever number is higher. (see Xanathar's Guide to Everything p. 77)

In the Belly of the Beast. While you are swallowed or engulfed by a creature, you have resistance to the damage it deals to you. In addition, your attacks against it have advantage and deal double damage.

The Bigger They Come. You can add your Focus Die on your Strength (Athletics) checks when you try to shove a creature, and you can try to shove a creature even if it is more than one size larger than you.

Walk the Spider's Web. You are considered invisible towards Blindsight and Tremorsense.

Archetype Spells

You gain archetype spells at the ranger levels listed.

Guardian Form

Starting at 3rd level, you can use a bonus action to temporarily grow and turn yourself into a treelike person, covered with leaves and bark.

You can use this feature twice. You regain expended uses when you finish a short or long rest.

You can stay in that form for a number of hours equal to half your ranger level (rounded down). You then revert to your normal form unless you expend another use of this feature. You can revert to your normal form earlier by using a bonus action on your turn, you automatically revert if you fall unconscious, drop to 0 hit points, or die.

You gain the following benefits while in your guardian form:

• Any speed you have is reduced to half (round down).
• You have advantage on your Strength checks and saving throws.
• Your AC can't be less than 14 + your proficiency bonus, regardless of the armor you are wearing.
• If you are smaller than Medium, you become Medium.
• Your unarmed strike deals 1d6 magical bludgeoning or piercing damage (choose whenever you make an attack).
• You choose whether your equipment merges into your new form, or is worn by it, though it doesn't change size or shape to match your new form. Nonmagical equipment that merges with the form has no effect until you leave the form.

Verdant Connection

Also at 3rd level, you gain an mystical connection to verdant life around you.

You can communicate basic concepts and ideas to plants and are able to understand their answers.

In addition, you can satisfy your hunger and thirst for the day by digging your feet into fertile ground while bathing in the sun for at least 10 minutes. You can't use this feature if the ground doesn't support abundant plant life or if there is no daylight available (a cloudy day is sufficient, but not at night or underground).

Grasping Roots

At 7th level, you gain the ability to sprout twisting roots around you while in your guardian form.

While in your guardian form, the ground within 20 feet of you is difficult terrain for any creature of your choice.

In addition, when a creature that is no more than one size larger than you enters that area for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there, you can use your reaction to try and grapple that creature using your roots.

Mighty Guardian

At 11th level, your Guardian Form becomes more powerful and your roots become dangerous weapons.

While in your guardian form, your size becomes Large — unless there is no room to do so — the damage of your unarmed strike increases to 2d6 magical bludgeoning or piercing damage and your reach increases by 5 feet.

In addition, when you successfully grapple a creature using your Grasping Roots, you can immediately make a single unarmed strike against it, ignoring your usual reach.

Through Root and Branch

At 15th level, you learn to connect to the mystical roots connecting all verdant life.

You can cast transport via plants or wall of thorns once without expending a spell slot. You can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

In addition, while in your guardian form, you are under the constant effect of the tree stride spell (without requiring your concentration).

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Predatory Instinct

1st-level enchantment

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 30 feet
• Components: V, S
• Duration: 1 hour

You bestow one creature of your choice within range with keen hunting instincts. The target has advantage on initiative rolls, and has advantage on attack rolls against any creature that hasn't taken a turn in the combat yet.

The spell ends for a target after its first turn of combat.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, you can target one additional creature for each slot level above 1st.

Swift Strike

3rd-level transmutation

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: Touch
• Components: V, S
• Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute

You touch a willing creature and infuse it with martial prowess and heightened speed.

Until the spell ends, the target can use a bonus action on each of its turns to make a single weapon attack. If engaged in two-weapon fighting, the target can make this attack as part of the same bonus action it uses to make the attack with its other hand.

At Higher Levels. If you cast this spell using a spell slot of 5th level or higher, the target can make two attacks as a bonus action.

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Urban Awareness

1st-level divination (ritual)

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• Casting Time: 1 minute
• Range: Self
• Components: V, S
• Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute

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You must cast this spell within the confines of a settlement otherwise the spell fails.

You can sense the most prominent emotions running through the settlement, such as fear, unrest, or anger.

You also gain a rough vision of the general layout of the settlement, and you can identify specific districts such as temples, markets, or slums.

During the spell's duration, you can find the fastest routes to any destination within the settlement — finding small alleyways, bypassing blocked streets, and avoiding large crowds.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, you can maintain your concentration on the spell for an extended time: 10 minutes (2nd level), 1 hour (3rd level), 8 hours (4th level), 24 hours (5th level).

Waverider

1st-level transmutation

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• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: Touch
• Components: V, S, M (a piece of sharkskin or sealskin)
• Duration: 1 hour

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Until the spell ends, one willing creature you touch gains a swimming speed equal to its movement speed, and the ability to breathe underwater.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, you can target one additional creature for each slot level above 1st.

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Handling Animals

Whether or not you can effectively control one or multiple animals highly depends on your skills as an animal handler. Depending on your proficiency with the Animal Handling skill, you can control one or multiple animals at the same time. Your proficiency and experience also determines how strong and powerful an animal can be in order for you to tame and control it.

See the Handling Animals by Proficiency table for a quick overview.

Controlling Animals in Combat

An animal freely follows and executes commands it is trained to do. A beast of burden is trained to pull or move on command, a horse is trained to jump when the rider wants to, and a fighting dog is trained to attack. Commanding an animal to do what it is trained for requires no ability check by the handler, but an untrained handler must spend more of her focus on an animal than a proficient one.

Your animals take their turns on your initiative. On your turn, you can verbally issue one command to one animal. If you are proficient in the Animal Handling skill, you can also use a bonus action to issue the same simple command (e.g. heel) — or use your action to issue the same complex command (e.g. attack the same target) — to multiple of your animal companions.

Depending on the animals training, a command always includes ordering an animal to move to a certain (easy to reach) location and take one of certain actions, detailed in the Trainings Types and Commands table below.

Trying to command an animal to do something it isn't trained for — e.g. forcing an animal untrained for combat towards danger — or any other unusual but reasonable action always counts as a complex command and additionally requires a successful DC 20 Wisdom (Animal Handling) check.

An animal never requires your command to use its reaction, but only hunting, guard, and war animals can use their reactions to make opportunity attacks.

 An animal that is given a command it is trained to follow, will continue to perform that command until ordered otherwise. If it doesn't have a command to follow, the beast will either flee or hide (taking the Dash or Hide action) or stand its ground (taking the Dodge action).

If you are incapacitated, or absent, an animal acts on its own, following its training and nature to the best of its abilities.

Trust

Whether you have recently bought a new animal companion or made several mistakes in training your own, you need to gain its trust in order for it to follow your orders without hesitation.

Until you (re-) gain an animal's Trust, you suffer the following disadvantages: