Class Features

As a Ranger, you gain the following class features

Hunter's Magic

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

Deadly Mark

When you choose this archetype at 3rd level, your weapon attacks score a critical hit on a roll of 19 or 20 against creatures marked by your Hunter's Mark spell.

Hunter's Prey

At 3rd level, you gain one of the following features of your choice:

• Colossus Slayer Your tenacity can wear down the most potent foes. When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, the creature takes an extra 1d8 damage if it’s below its hit point maximum. You can deal this extra damage only once per turn.
• Giant Killer When a Large or larger creature within 5 feet of you hits or misses you with an attack, you can use your reaction to attack that creature immediately after its attack, provided that you can see the creature.
• 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.

Defensive Tactics

At 7th level, you gain one of the following features of your choice:

• 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.
• Steel Will You have advantage on saving throws against being frightened.

Multiattack

At 11th level, you gain one of the following features of your choice:

• Volley You can use your action to make a ranged attack against any number of creatures within 10 feet of a point you can see within your weapon’s range. You must have ammunition for each target, as normal, and you make a separate attack roll for each target
• Whirlwind Attack You can use your action to make melee attacks against any number of creatures within 5 feet of you, with a separate attack roll for each target.

Superior Hunter's Defense

At 15th level, you gain one of the following features of your choice.

• 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
• Stand Against the Tide When a hostile creature misses you with a melee attack, 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 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.

Beast Magic

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

Animal Companion

Beginning at 3rd level, you establish a powerful link with a beast through your magic, and it becomes your faithful animal companion. Choose its stat block at the end of this section between the following options: Beast of the Land, Beast of the Sea, or Beast of the Sky. These use your proficiency bonus (PB) and Wisdom modifier in several places. You also determine the kind of animal the beast is, choosing a kind appropriate for the stat block.

Your companion is friendly to you and your allies, It understands your speech, and you can intuit basic concepts and statements as long as you can see or hear it. In combat, your companion shares your initiative count, but takes its turn immediately after yours. It can move and use its reaction on it's own, but the only action it takes on its turn is the Dodge action, unless you take a bonus action on your turn to command it to take the action in its stat block or the Dash, Disengage, Help, Hide or Search action. You can also sacrifice one of your attacks when you take the Attack action to command the beast to take the Attack action. If you are incapacitated, the beast can take any action of its choice, not just Dodge.

When you regain hitpoints spending one or more Hit Dice at the end of a short rest, your companion regains the same amount of hitpoints. If your animal companion is reduced to zero hit points in combat, the beast rolls death saving throws as a player character normally would. If your companion dies, you can obtain a new companion by magically bonding with a beast that isn’t hostile to you at the end of a long rest. If you already have a companion from this feature, your current companion leaves you.

Feral Speech

At 3rd level you have gained an innate ability to communicate with beasts, and they recognize you as a kindred spirit.

Through sounds and gestures, you can communicate simple ideas to a beast as an action, and can you read its basic mood and intent. You learn its emotional state, whether it is affected by magic of any sort, its short-term needs (such as food or safety), actions you can take (if any) to persuade it to not attack, and you gain advantage on Animal Handling checks when trying to calm the animal's emotional state.

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You can question animals about events in the area within the past day, gaining information about creatures that have passed, weather, and other circumstances. Animals might be able to perform other tasks on your behalf, at the DM’s discretion. You cannot use this ability against creatures that you have attacked within the past 10 minutes.

Supernatural Beast

By the time you reach 7th level, the bond you share with your companion strengthens through your magic. When you cast a ranger spell that targets you, you can also affect your animal companion with the spell if it is within 30ft. of you. Additionally, Your companion's attacks count as magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to non-magical attacks and damage.

Combined Reflexes

Beginning at 11th level, both you and your companion become able to quickly sense imminent danger and alert each other. Whenever you and your animal companion are required to roll a strength or dexterity saving throw and are within 15 feet, use the higher of the two rolls for both results.

Sharp Instincts

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.

Hide in Plain sight

1st level illusion (ritual)

• Casting Time: 1 minute
• Range: self
• Components: V, S, M (natural materials, such as fresh mud, dirt, plants, or soot)
• Duration: Concentration, up to 1 hour

While casting this spell, select a vertical surface to imitate: your clothes and skin will be masked by a thin veil that greatly resembles said surface. While camouflaged in this way, you can't be detected by scent and you gain a +10 bonus to Dexterity (Stealth) checks while moving close to the surface matching your camouflage. You can remain hidden this way without need of further stealth checks. If during your turn you move more than half your speed, or use an action other than Hide or Search, you lose your camouflage and the spell ends.

Primeval Awareness

1st-level Divination (ritual)

• Casting Time: 1 Minute
• Range: 5 miles
• Components: V, S
• Duration: Concentration, up to 10 minutes

Choose one type of creature: beasts, fey, humanoids, giants, plants, undead, or monstrosities. You expand your senses pouring your own spirit through the land, allowing you to learn the exact number, general direction and distance of all the creatures of the selected type within 200 feet of you.

Vanish

1st level Illusion

• Casting Time: 1 bonus action
• Range: self
• Components: V
• Duration: Concentration, 1 round

You magically fade away and become invisible, alongside any equipment you are wearing or carrying, until the start of your next turn. The spell ends prematurely if you attack a creature or cast another spell.

Vine Shot

1st level transmutation

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 60 feet
• Components: V, M (an arrow, bolt, or throwing weapon)
• Duration: 10 minutes

As part of the action used to cast this spell, you shoot or throw a sharp type of ammunition or throwing weapon towards a surface you can see within 50 feet of you. When the projectile hits the surface it sticks to it and a 50 feet vine sprouts from it. Additionally, you can direct the vine to firmly grasp any surface adjacent to you at the point of casting the spell. The vine has the same properties of a silken rope, and can't be removed from the projectile that created it (though it can be cut or burnt). It can also hold up to 300 pounds of weight at any given time, and grants advantage on Strength (Athletics) or Dexterity (Acrobatics) checks to creatures that climb it.

When the spell ends the vine immediately disappears, and the projectile or throwing weapon used releases from the surface it stuck to.