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 per Ranger level after 1st

Proficiencies

You are proficient with the following items, in addition to any proficiencies provided by your race or background.

• Armor: light armor, medium armor, shields
• Weapons: simple weapons, martial weapons
• Tools: One of Cook's utensils, Herbalist's kit, or Woodcarver's tools

• 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

Alternatively, you may start with 5d4 × 10 gp to buy your own equipment.

Ranger's Companion

When you choose this archetype at 3rd level you gain a beast companion that accompanies you on your adventures and is trained to fight alongside you. Choose a beast that is no larger than Medium and that has a challenge rating of 1/2 or lower. It should be a creature common to the region you hail from or currently inhabit.

• The beast uses your proficiency bonus for its attack rolls, skill checks, and saving throws, and adds your proficiency bonus to its AC and damage rolls. The beast has a number of hit dice equal to your Ranger level for determining its hit point maximum, or it can equal four times your ranger level, whichever is higher.
• It gains any Saving Throw you yourself are proficient in, and gains proficiency in up to three skills, choosing its new skills from Acrobatics, Athletics, Insight, Intimidation, Nature, Perception, Performance, Stealth, or Survival. The skills chosen should make sense for the companion.
• Whenever you achieve an Ability Score Increase from the Ranger class your Beast Companion can choose to increase one of its ability scores by 1. Your beast companion cannot increase its Intelligence score, or increase any ability score above 20 in this way.
• The beast obeys your commands as best as it can. It takes its turn immediately before or after you, your choice. You can verbally command the beast with no action required by you to take the Attack, Dash, Disengage, Dodge, or Help action. If you are incapacitated or absent, your beast companion acts on its own, focusing on protecting you and itself.
• Like any creature, the beast can spend hit dice during a short rest. Should the beast drop to 0 hit points it makes Death Saving Throws as if it were a PC.
• While traveling with only the beast, you can move stealthily at a normal pace.

If the beast dies, you can obtain another one by spending 8 hours magically bonding with another beast that isn't hostile to you, either the same type of beast as before or a different one.

Beast's Attack

Your beast companion can only make a single attack even if it has the Multiattack feature normally. Whenever you take the attack action on your turn you can forgo making one of your attacks to direct your beast companion to make an attack as a reaction.

Beast Master Magic

Starting at 3rd level, you learn an additional spell when you reach certain levels in this class, as shown in the Beast Master Spells table. The spell counts as a ranger spell for you, but it doesn't count against the number of ranger spells you know. Spells cast upon your beast companion do not require material components.

Beast's Defense

Beginning at 7th level, on any of your turns when your beast companion doesn't attack, it can use a bonus action to take the Dash, Disengage, Dodge, or Help action on its turn.

Bestial Fury

Beginning at 11th level, when you hit a creature with an attack your beast companion has Advantage on attack rolls against that creature until the start of your next turn.

Superior Beast's Defense

At 15th level, whenever an attacker that your companion can see hits it with an attack, it can use its reaction to halve the attack's damage against it.

Gloom Stalker Magic

Starting at 3rd level, you learn an additional spell when you reach certain levels in this class, as shown in the Gloom Stalker Spells table. The spell counts as a ranger spell for you, but it doesn't count against the number of ranger spells you know.

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.

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.

Horizon Walker Magic

Starting at 3rd level, you learn an additional spell when you reach certain levels in this class, as shown in the Horizon Walker Spells table. The spell counts as a ranger spell for you, but it doesn't count against the number of ranger spells you know.

Detect Portal

At 3rd level, you gain the ability to magically sense the presence of a planar portal. As an action, you detect the distance and direction to the closest planar portal within 1 mile of you.

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

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

Planar Warrior

At 3rd level, you learn to draw on the energy of the multiverse to augment your attacks.

When you hit a creature on your turn with a weapon attack, you can use a bonus action to cause all damage dealt by the attack to become force damage, and the creature takes an extra 1d8 force damage. This increases to 2d8 bonus damage at 11th level.

Ethereal Step

At 7th 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 until you finish a short or long rest.

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.

Spectral Defense

At 15th 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.

Hunter Magic

Starting at 3rd level, you learn an additional spell when you reach certain levels in this class, as shown in the Hunter Spells table. The spell counts as a ranger spell for you, but it doesn't count against the number of ranger spells you know.

Hunter's Prey

At 3rd level, you gain one of the following features of your choice: Colossus Slayer, Giant Killer, or Horde Breaker.

• Colossus Slayer. Your tenacity can wear down the most potent foes. Once per turn, when you hit a creature with a weapon attack, the creature takes an extra 1d8 damage if it's below its hit point maximum. This bonus damage increases to 1d12 when you reach 11th level in this class.
• Horde Breaker. Once on each of your turns when you make a weapon attack, you can make another attack with the same weapon against a different creature that is within 5 feet of the original target and within range of your weapon.

Steel Will

By 7th level you can remain calm in even the most dire of situations. You have advantage on saving throws against being frightened.

Defensive Tactics

At 7th level, you gain one of the following features of your choice: Escape the Horde or Multiattack Defense.

• Escape the Horde. Opportunity attacks against you are made with disadvantage.
• Multiattack Defense. When a creature hits you with an attack, you gain a +4 bonus to AC against all subsequent attacks made by that creature for the rest of the turn.

Multiattack

At 11th level, you gain one of the following features of your choice: Volley or Whirlwind Attack.

• Volley. You can use your action to make up to 5 ranged weapon attacks, provided each attack roll is against a different creature. You must have ammunition for each target, and you make a separate attack roll for each target.
• Whirlwind Attack. You can use your action to make up to 5 melee weapon attacks, provided each attack roll is against a different creature. You make a separate attack roll for each target.

Superior Hunter's Defense

At 15th level, you gain one of the following features of your choice: Misdirection or Uncanny Dodge.

• Misdirection. When a hostile creature targets you with a melee attack, you can use your reaction to force that creature to instead make the attack against another creature (other than itself) within 5ft of you and it.
• Uncanny Dodge. When an attacker that you can see hits you with an attack, you can use your reaction to halve the attack's damage against you.

Monster Slayer Magic

Starting at 3rd level, you learn an additional spell when you reach certain levels in this class, as shown in the Monster Slayer Spells table. The spell counts as a ranger spell for you, but it doesn't count against the number of ranger spells you know.

Hunter's Sense

At 3rd level, you gain the ability to peer at a creature and magically discern how best to hurt it. Choose one creature you can see within 60 feet of you. You immediately learn whether the creature has any damage immunities, resistances, or vulnerabilities and what they are. 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 Wisdom modifier (minimum 1). You regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Slayer's Prey

Starting at 3rd level, you can focus your ire on one foe, increasing the harm you inflict on it. As a bonus action, you designate one creature you can see as the target of this feature. The first time each turn that you hit that target with a weapon attack, it takes an extra 1d6 damage from the weapon. When you reach 11th level in this class, the extra damage increases to 2d6.

This benefit lasts until you finish a short or long rest. It ends early if you designate a different creature.

Supernatural Defense

At 7th level, you gain extra resilience against your prey's assaults on your mind and body. Whenever the target of your Slayer's Prey forces you to make a saving throw and whenever you make an ability check to escape that target's grapple, add 1d6 to your roll.

Magic-User's Nemesis

At 11th level, you gain the ability to thwart someone else's magic. When you see a creature casting a spell or teleporting within 60 feet of you, you can use your reaction to try to magically foil it. The creature must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC, or its spell or teleport fails and is wasted.

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

Slayer's Counter

At 15th level, you gain the ability to counterattack when your prey tries to sabotage you. If the target of your Slayer's Prey forces you to make a saving throw, you can use your reaction to make one weapon attack against the quarry. You make this attack immediately before making the saving throw. If your attack hits, your save automatically succeeds, in addition to the attack's normal effects.

Ranger Archetype

Bounty Hunters work on the edge of the law to bring criminals and offenders to justice. Through their own cunning, effective use of tools and weapons, as well as a bit of dirty work, they always get their mark. By taking up this archetype you take up the role of a dogged and determined fighter who excels at isolating and neutralizing their prey. Remember, it does say Dead or Alive.

Scoundrel's Wit

At 3rd level your mastery of movement lets you tap into a well of energy to confuse and confound your foes, which you execute through your Gambits.

Some of your Gambits force your target to make a saving throw to resist the effect, calculated as:

Gambit save DC = 8 + proficiency bonus + your Wisdom modifier (minimum 1)

Wit. You have a pool of Wit equal to 2 + half your ranger level, which you use to fuel your Gambits. You regain all expended Wit when you finish a long rest.

Gambits

You learn 2 Gambits of choice from the Scoundrel Gambit list. The full list is detailed at the end of the ranger section.

You learn an additional Gambit of choice at 7th, 11th, and 15th level. Each time you learn a new Gambit, you can replace one Gambit you know with a different one. You can only use one Gambit per turn.