Beast Tamer Class by

<div class='cover-header'>the Tamer</div>

<div class='cover-footer'>Supplement your combat prowess with a customizable animal companion in this homebrew class by u/eatschocolateforcash for the world's greatest roleplaying game</div>

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# Tamer

Grizzled and scar-covered, a human advances alone through a dim-lit forest, stalking the bear he seeks to bring to heel after it attacked a nearby tavern. Clutching a handful of berries in one hand and a shortsword in the other, he knows the beast will submit, whether it be to kindness or cold steel.

Putting her back up against a boulder, the dwarf uses all of her might to keep the golem's fist from flattening her into the earth. With a whistle and a few clicks of her tongue, she signals her wolf to leap from off the top of the boulder, knocking the golem backwards and freeing its master from its assault.

Keeping his teeth clenched as a reminder to keep holding his breath, the orc swims at full speed away from the pursuing tritons. As one of the tritons winds its arm back with harpoon at the ready, it is unaware of the great white shark coming at it with jaws open at full speed from behind.

Deep in the wilds of the world, where animals of all shapes and sizes propagate, Tamers hone their insticts and become partners with the critters and monsters of the animal kingdom.

## Beast of Prey
Trainers of wild animals as well as soldiers of nature, Tamers fight side by side with creatures to combat the threats to their habitats and homes. They learn to think like a beast does, honing their instincts and connection to nature to hunt down threats. Tamers quickly learn to fight alongside a beast as a duo, using joint maneuvers to do things that they couldn't accomplish alone.

Tamers rely on their athletic prowess to tame beasts as well as fight in combat. What they lack in pure brute force and magic prowess they make up for in combat experience and the ability to work in tandem with a beast. A Tamer's expertise syncs with the animals they tame to make a pair that is greater than the sum of its parts.

## Partner in Savagery
Tamers have  reputations of being recluses deep within nature, but in reality can have almost any kind of background or personality. Some Tamers might choose to live in cities, employing their prowess with beasts to earn a living or simply keep their community safe. There are many Tamers that form a close bond with a single creature, making it as close to them as a brother or sister, while others seek to interact with a vast assortment of creatures.

A Tamer's familiarity with the animals of the wilds makes them naturally suited for adventuring. After all, Tamers can only make the most of their talents in places where there are a myriad of beasts to interact with. Tamers often look down on others that treat animals disrespectfully, and watching others that are novices with nature often gives Tamers a sense of amusement, resentment, or pride in their own skills.

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## Beast Quirks
Each beast has its own peculiarities, and while most of these are harmless they can be interesting for a Tamer to work around. Below are a set of quirks your beast might have. Whenever you gain a new bonded companion, roll on the table to determine what quirk the animal has or simply choose one you want. You can also create your own.

##### Bonded Companion Quirks
| d8 | Quirk |
|:----:|:-----:|
| 1  | It acts like it is a size smaller than it actually is|
| 2  | It will tear dragons from the sky for some belly rubs |
| 3 | Unattended food is clearly meant for it. |
| 4 | There was a problem. You weren't paying attention. It solved the problem. Aren't you pleased? |
| 5 | It has a tendency to fetch things. Many things. Clearly you wanted this thing. |
| 6 | Mid-day sun is prime napping time. |
| 7 | The sound of footsteps is clearly a murderer out to get you. It must make lots of noise to save you. |
| 8 | It wants to snuggle with you when it sleeps. |

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##### The Tamer Table
| Level | Proficiency Bonus | Features | Hallmarks | Command Die | Beast Traits
|:---:|:---:|:---|:---:|:---:|:---:|
| 1st | +2 | Friend of Beasts, Beast Companion | - | - | - |
| 2nd | +2 | Trainer's Hallmarks, Fighting Style  | 3 | 4(d4) | - |
| 3rd | +2 | Beast Companion feature, Beast Trait | 3 | 4(d4) | 1 |
| 4th | +2 | Ability Score Improvement | 3 | 5(d4) | 1 |
| 5th | +3 | Extra Attack | 3 | 5(d6) | 1 |
| 6th | +3 | Critter Rapport | 3 | 5(d6) | 2 |
| 7th | +3 | Beast Companion feature | 5 | 5(d6) | 2 |
| 8th | +3 | Ability Score Improvement | 5 | 5(d6) | 3 |
| 9th | +4 | Magical Bond | 5 | 6(d6) | 3 |
| 10th | +4 | Crash-Course Training | 5 | 6(d6) | 4 |
| 11th | +4 | Bestial Attack  | 5 | 6(d8) | 4 |
| 12th | +4 | Ability Score Improvement, Elite  Hallmarks | 5 | 6(d8) | 4 |
| 13th | +5 | Beast Companion feature, Commands | 7 | 7(d8) | 5 |
| 14th | +5 | Tame the Wild | 7 | 7(d8) | 5 |
| 15th | +5 | Wayfare the Critters | 7 | 7(d8) | 6 |
| 16th | +5 | Ability Score Improvement| 7 | 7(d8) | 6 |
| 17th | +6 | Beast Companion feature, Commands | 9 | 7(d10) | 6 |
| 18th | +6 | Unite the Wild | 9 | 7(d10) | 7 |
| 19th | +6 | Ability Score Improvement | 9 | 8(d10) | 7 |
| 20th | +6 | Beast Master | 9 | 8(d10) | 7 |

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### Quick Build

You can make a Tamer quickly by following these suggestions. First, make either Strength or Dexterity your highest ability score, followed by Wisdom. Second, choose the outlander background.

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

#### Hit Points
**Hit Dice:** 1d8 per Tamer level
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**Hit Points at 1st Level:** 8 + your Constitution modifier
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**Hit Points at Higher Levels:** 1d8 (or 5) + your Constitution modifier per Tamer level after 1st

#### Proficiencies
**Armor:** Light armor, medium armor, shields
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**Weapons:** Simple weapons, martial weapons
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**Tools:** None
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**Saving Throws:** Strength, Wisdom
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**Skills:** Choose two from Animal Handling, Athletics, Acrobatics, Insight, Medicine, Nature, Perception, Stealth, and Survival

#### Equipment
You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:
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•	(a) scale mail or (b) leather armor
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•	(a) two martial melee weapons or (b) a martial melee weapon and a shield
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•	(a) a dungeoneer's pack or (b) an explorer's pack
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•	A simple or martial ranged weapon and 20 pieces of ammunition
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### Friend of Animals
Beginning at 1st level, you have learned how to make animals trust you and can train them to assist you on the battlefield.

You learn the *animal friendship* spell and can cast it a number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier. When you do so you can target a beast of CR 1/2 or lower and aren't restricted by the beast's Intelligence score.

During a short or long rest, while in the presence of a beast that isn't hostile to you, you can attempt to bond it to you. Whenever you do so you must expend high-quality food appropriate for the creature and attempt an Animal Handling check equal to 11 + the number of hit dice the beast has. On a success, the beast becomes a bonded companion.

A bonded companion is friendly to you and any creatures you consider friends. Its stat block becomes that of a bonded companion listed later. The bonded companion recovers all lost HP whenever it completes a short or long rest. If the bonded companion is reduced to 0 hit points, it does not die, instead it ceases to be bonded to you and returns to its standard statistics. When the bonding ends in this way the beast is still friendly to you, but will no longer follow orders and will attempt to leave the hostile environment as quickly as possible.

You can have a number of beasts bonded to you equal to half your proficiency modifier (rounded up). This bonding lasts for 1 year and can be repeated at any point to refresh the bonding, you have advantage on Animal Handling checks made to bond creatures that you have bonded before or that are currently bonded to you. When the bonding ends the beast is still friendly to you, but may attempt to return to its natural habitat. You remember every beast you have bonded and can immediately identify one if you see it. You may ride a bonded companion as a mount, but if you do, that bonded companion cannot attack, be issued commands, or receive any orders by using your bonus action.

#### Companions In Combat

When initiative is rolled, you may designate a single companion to follow your orders during the following combat. You may not designate another companion to follow your orders until the combat ends. All other companions flee the hostile area or go dormant in a manner that takes them out of harm's way until combat ends. A companion you designate acts on your initiative count, taking its turn immediately before or after you, and can occupy the same space as you. On its turn, a companion will only move and can't take any actions or bonus actions. During your turn, whenever you take the attack action you may choose to forgo making one attack to order your companion to immediately take the attack action. Additionally, during your turn you may, as a bonus action, order the beast to take the disengage, dodge, hide, or search action, or to move up to half its movement speed. You cannot use your bonus action in this way during the same turn you order your bonded companion to attack. At any point, if the beast is not within 120 feet of you and hasn't heard you within the last round, it uses all of its movement to attempt to return to a spot within 120 feet of you.

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> ## Bonded Companion
>*Tiny, Small, Medium, or Large beast*
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> - **Armor Class** 12
> - **Hit Points** 3 + (2 * Tamer level)
> - **Speed** 30ft. (walking or swimming)
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>|STR|DEX|CON|INT|WIS|CHA|
>|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|
>|10 (+0)|10 (+0)|10 (+0)|4 (-3)|10 (+0)|6 (-2)|
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> - **Senses** passive Perception 10
> - **Languages** Understands its Tamer's languages
> - ***Partially-Tamed Companion***. Your companion gains bonuses to hit and damage equal to your proficiency bonus.
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> ### Actions
> ***Strike.*** *Melee Attack:* +3 to hit, reach 5ft., one target. *Hit:*  1d4 slashing damage

### Beast Companion
At 1st level, you choose a type of beast that you strive to tame and develop into the best version of the beast it can be. Choose Stalwart, Stalker, Sinister, or Scout . The beast companion type you choose grants you features at 1st level as well as 3rd, 7th, 13th, and 17th level.

> ##### Note for Clarity
> Any feature that references "companions" applies for normal bonded companions as well as subclass-specific companions. However, any feature that references only bonded companions or subclass-specific companions does not apply for any other type of companion.

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### Trainer's Hallmarks
At 2nd level, you have expanded your abilities as a trainer, gaining incredible abilities as well as being able to order your bonded companion to make complex stunts in combat. You learn three hallmarks of your choice, which are detailed under "Trainer's Hallmarks" later. Each time you learn a hallmark, you may replace one hallmark you know with another from the list.

Some hallmarks require the use of command dice and saving throws. Hallmarks that require these resources follow the rules below. If the hallmark is a "Command", it can only be used when you make an attack against a creature within 5ft of a bonded companion.

**Command Dice**: You have four Command Dice, which are d4s. You may use a command die when you declare an attack by picking a "Command" hallmark from the list of ones you know. Whether or not your attack hits, the command die is expended when you use it. You regain all of your command dice when you finish a long rest, or half your total when you finish a short rest. These command dice increase in number and size as you level up in the Tamer class, represented in the class table above. You may make one command to your bonded companion per attack you make.

**Saving Throws**: Some of your commands require your target to make a saving throw to resist the command’s effects. The saving throw DC is calculated as follows:

- Command save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Wisdom modifier.

### 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 the same Fighting Style option more than once, even if you get to choose again.

##### Archery
You gain a +2 bonus to attack rolls you make with
ranged weapons.

##### Defense
While you are wearing armor, you gain a +1 bonus to AC.

##### Dueling
When you are wielding a melee weapon in one hand and no other weapons, you gain a +2 bonus to damage rolls with that weapon.

##### Protection
When a creature you can see attacks a target other than you that is within 5 feet of you, you can use your reaction to impose disadvantage on the attack roll. You must be wielding a shield.

##### Thrown-Weapon Fighting
You can draw a weapon that has the thrown property as part of the attack you make with the weapon. In addition, when you hit with a ranged attack using a thrown weapon, you gain a +2 bonus to the damage roll.

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##### Two-Weapon Fighting
When you engage in two-weapon fighting, you can add your ability modifier to the damage of the second attack.

##### Unarmed Fighting
Your unarmed strikes can deal bludgeoning damage
equal to ld6 + your Strength modifier on a hit. If you
aren't wielding any weapons or a shield when you
make the attack roll, the d6 becomes a d8.

At the start of each of your turns, you can deal
ld4 bludgeoning damage to one creature grappled by you.

### Beast Trait
At 3rd level, your beast companion gains a trait of your choice from a list included with your beast companion's features. Your beast companion gains another trait of your choice at 6th, 9th, 11th, 14th, 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. 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.

### Critter Rapport
At 6th level, you are skilled at assessing and utilizing the animals of the wilderness. You gain the following benefits:
- Your Friend of Beasts feature now extends to beasts with a CR of 1.
- You may expend a command die to roll and add its value to an animal handling, nature, or survival check you make.
- Once per day, you may let out a particular beast-like call as an action. Designate any number of non-hostile creatures that can be affected by your Friend of Beasts trait that are within 90 feet of you. You influence the mood of those beasts to become happy, sad, afraid, angry, or any other basic mood you choose for up to 1 minute, or until you make another call to end this effect early.

### Magical Bond
Starting at 9th level, the magical bond between you and your beast grows, and magic infuses it from this bond. Your bonded companion gains +1 to attack and damage rolls with its strikes, and its strikes are now considered magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage.

Additionally, you may now use an action to see and hear out of your bonded companion's eyes and ears instead of your own until you use an action to turn this effect off. You gain the benefits of any special senses that the bonded companion has while this effect is active. During this time, you are deaf and blind with regard to your own senses.

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### Crash-Course Training
At 10th level, you have developed a methodology for swiftly getting beasts fully trained. When you take a short rest, you may expend two hit dice and forgo any benefits of taking that short rest, instead using all of your time and energy turning a bonded companion into the type of companion granted by your subclass. Additionally, your Friend of Beasts feature now extends to beasts with a CR of 2.

### Bestial Attack
Starting at 11th level, your bonded companion can make one strike on its turn without requiring you to spend an attack ordering it to do so.

Additionally, your beast gains a reaction that it may use only to take an attack of opportunity with its Strike attack. In order to do this, you must expend a command die at the moment when the attack of opportunity becomes available.

### Elite Hallmarks
Starting at 12th level, your rigorous practices have given you the knowledge and discipline to master your training. You gain access to Elite Hallmarks, listed under the normal Hallmarks.

### Tame the Wild
Starting at 14th level, if your beast is within 5 feet of you, you can attempt to grapple a creature of any size using your animal handling skill.

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From now on, when you succeed at a grapple check against a creature, you may turn the grappled condition into a harnessing grapple. A harnessing grapple is the same as the grappled condition, except that at the end of each of the harnessed creature's turns you force it to do one of the following:

- Move up to its normal movement speed to a spot you designate, with you moving along with it.
- Drop something it is carrying.
- Spit up something or someone it has swallowed.

Once you have used this feature, you cannot use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

### Wayfare the Critters
At 15th level, your knowledge of creatures and their behaviors reaches new heights. You gain the following benefits:
- Your Friend of Beasts feature now extends to beasts with a CR of 5 or less.
- You may expend two command dice to cast the *charm monster* spell at 4th level, without needing or using a spell slot. The saving throw DC is equal to your wisdom modifier + the sum of the two command dice rolled.
- By spending 1 minute observing and assessing a creature with the help of your bonded companion, you can discern key information about the creature. This information can include the creature's current mood, its likely response to a friendly or aggressive approach by someone, whether it is currently damaged or under a magical or negative effect, what its total hp is in terms of the nearest 50 (so a creature with 123 total hp would be seen as "near 100 hp"), and what its immunities, resistances, and vulnerabilities are.  Given the context of the situation with the creature, the DM may allow for additional information.

### Unite the Wild
At 18th level, your harnessing grapple improves. You have advantage on the initial grapple check and any attacks the harnessed creature attempts against you or your bonded companion are made  with disadvantage.

Additionally, your Friend of Beasts feature now extends to beasts with a CR of 5 or less.

### Beast Master
You have become the chieftan of the animal kingdom. You gain the following benefits:
- You and your bonded companion gain +2 to any two different ability scores of your choice. Your maximum for these scores is now 22.
- After making a successful grapple check against any beast or other type of creature with an intelligence score of 5 or less, you may use a bonus action and expend four command dice to cast the *dominate monster* spell at 8th level on the creature you are grappling, without needing or using a spell slot. The saving throw DC is equal to your Wisdom modifier + half the sum of the four command dice rolled. After you use this feature, you cannot do so again until you finish a long rest.

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## Hallmarks

##### Command: Arm!
Your companion targets the arm of an enemy while you are attacking. If you hit with your attack, add the command die to the attack's damage roll. In addition, the first weapon attack roll the target makes during its next turn is made with disadvantage.

##### Command: Blitz!
*Prerequisite: Medium size or bigger companion*

Your companion rushes an enemy while you are attacking, attempting to push or pull it to the ground. If you hit with your attack, add the command die to the attack's damage roll. In addition, if the target is of large size or smaller, it must succeed on a Strength saving throw or be knocked prone.

##### Command: Brace!
*Prerequisite: Medium size or bigger companion*

Your companion bolsters itself in anticipation of incoming damage. Your bonded companion gains temporary hp equal to the result of your command die + your proficiency bonus. This temporary hp lasts only while still in combat.

##### Command: Craze!
Your companion makes a series of wild and distracting feints at an enemy while you are attacking. Add the command die to your attack roll.

##### Command: Disrupt!
Your companion attempts to break an enemy's concentration while you are attacking. If you hit with your attack, add the command die to the attack's damage roll. In addition, any concentration roll the enemy makes due to your attack is made with disadvantage.

##### Command: Ear!
Your companion targets the ear of an enemy while you are attacking. If you hit with your attack, add the command die to the attack's damage roll. In addition, the enemy is deafened for 1 minute.

##### Command: Eyes!
Your companion targets the eyes of an enemy while you are attacking. If you hit with your attack, add the command die to the attack's damage roll. In addition, the enemy is blinded to anything beyond 10 feet away until the end of its next turn.

##### Command: Fetch!
Before or after you make your attack, your companion retrieves something within close distance and delivers it to you or an ally. Your companion may move a number of feet up to its movement speed. While moving in this way, if it enters a space where there is an object that can be grabbed without resistance and that weighs no more than your companion's Strength score * 3, then your companion can take the object into its possession. The companion can drop this object or put it into a willing creature's open hand at-will on their turn or whenever you or a friendly creature enter a space within 5ft of the companion. The companion drops the item if it becomes grappled or incapacitated.

##### Command: Harass!
Your companion snaps at the enemy in an annoying and painful way. If you hit with your attack, add the command die to the attack's damage roll. In addition, the enemy must make a Wisdom saving throw. If the enemy fails, they have disadvantage on any attack rolls they make against targets other than your bonded companion until the beginning of your next turn.

##### Command: Go!
Your attack allows your companion to pivot and sprint to a nearby location. Your bonded companion immediately disengages and moves to a spot of your choosing no further than half its movement speed away.

##### Command: Gut!
Your companion targets the gut of an enemy while you are attacking. If you hit with your attack, add the command die to the attack's damage roll. In addition, the target can't take reactions until the end of your next turn.

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##### Command: Impair!
*Prerequisite: Medium size or smaller companion*

Your companion gets under an enemy's armor or defenses while you attack. If you hit with your attack, add the command die to the attack's damage roll. In addition, if the target is at least one size category larger than your companion, your companion enters into the target's space. As long as your companion remains inside the target's space, your companion can't attack, is considered to be under three-quarters cover, and moves with the target wherever it moves. While inside the target's space, you may use a bonus action to order it to skitter and weaken the target, reducing the target's AC by 3 to a minimum of 12 for the duration of your turn as well as dealing 1d4 piercing damage.

##### Command: Jugular!
Your companion targets a vital spot on the target's body while you attack. If you hit with your attack, add the command die to the attack's damage roll. In addition, the target gains an open wound that allows you, your beast, and any allies to critical hit on a roll of 19 or 20 against the target until the end of your next turn.

##### Command: Leg!
Your companion targets the leg of an enemy while you are attacking. If you hit with your attack, add the command die to the attack's damage roll. In addition, the enemy has its walking and swimming speed reduced by 10 feet for 1 minute.

##### Command: Maul!
*Prerequisite: Medium size or larger companion*

Your companion delivers an attack that mangles the enemy. You may only give this command when you use one of your attacks to allow your bonded companion to make a melee attack. If the bonded companion hits with its attack, add the command die to the attack's damage roll. In addition, the enemy takes damage equal to your proficiency bonus at the end of each of its turns until it receives at least 1hp of healing or spends an action to patch the wound. An enemy can have multiple instances of this ongoing damage on it at the same time, but all instances of it are removed if either of the two conditions above are met.

##### Command: Menace!
Your stalker companion bears its teeth, growls, or otherwise does something to terrify an enemy. If you hit with your attack, add the command die to the attack's damage roll. In addition, the enemy must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or become frightened for 1 minute. At the end of each of the enemy's turns, it may repeat the saving throw, ending the effect on itself on a success.

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##### Command: Seize!
*Prerequisite: Small size or larger companion*

Your companion bites down, clutches, or otherwise grips into an enemy while you are attacking. If you hit with your attack, add the command die to the attack's damage roll. In addition, until the beginning of your next turn, the enemy has its speed reduced by 10 and if it attempts to use any of its movement without teleporting, it takes half of the damage again and your bonded companion travels with the.

##### Command: Take!
Your companion pulls or hits an object out of an enemy's grip while you are attacking. If you hit with your attack, add the command die to the attack's damage roll. In addition, the enemy must succeed on a Strength saving throw or it drops one object of your choice it is holding with one hand or carrying on its person. You may also have your bonded companion may take hold of the object if the object weighs no more than your companion's Strength score * 3. While holding onto this object, the companion can drop this object or put it into a willing creature's open hand at-will on their turn or whenever you or a friendly creature enter a space within 5ft of the companion. The companion drops the item if it becomes grappled or incapacitated.

##### Command: Throat!
Your companion targets the throat of an enemy while you are attacking. If you hit with your attack, add the command die to the attack's damage roll. In addition, the enemy can't speak or use any attacks that rely on its breath or throat until the end of your next turn (such as a dragon's breath attack).

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## Elite Hallmarks
Hallmarks of this degree can only be learned by the most practiced of Tamers. They can only be learned and used by a Tamer of at least 12th level. While a tamer capable of knowing Elite Hallmarks isn't limited by the amount they can learn, a Tamer can only use one Elite Hallmark before they need to complete a short or long rest in order to use one again.

##### Elite Command: Bunker!

You and your companion form a wall with your flesh. When you and your companion are within 5ft of each other and either of you would take damage that would reduce one of you to 0 hit points, even if that damage would kill one of you outright, you can use your reaction to expend a Command Die to combine your and your companion's hit points into one, causing you or your companion to take the remaining damage that would otherwise reduce their hit points to 0. If this effect would cause both you and your companion to fall to 0 hit points, only your companion falls to 0 hit points and you fall to 1 hit point.

##### Elite Command: Pierce!
*Prerequisites: Medium size or smaller companion*

In place of an attack, you can expend a Command Die and have your companion move up to half its normal movement speed in a straight line, forcing creatures in that line out to the normal range of the weapon to make a Dexterity saving throw. Creatures take your companion's Strike damage plus piercing damage equal to your Command Die on a failed save, and half as much damage on a successful save.

##### Elite Command: Scream!

In place of an attack, you can expend a Command Die and have your companion issue a mighty scream of aggression, forcing any creature in an adjacent 30 foot cone that can hear them to make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, creatures drop whatever they are holding and are frightened of them until the end of their next turn.

##### Elite Command: Slam!
*Prerequisite: Medium size or larger companion*

Your companion slams the ground with great force in an attempt to destabilize your enemies. Instead of making an attack, you can expend a Command Die to have your companion strike the ground at their feet with all of their might, forcing creatures in an adjacent 20-foot cube to make a Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, creatures take bludgeoning damage equal to your companion's Strength modifier + the Command Die rolled and fall prone. On a successful save, they take half damage and don't fall prone. Any objects within this area take the maximum amount of damage.

The area of the 20-foot cube becomes difficult terrain until a creature takes 1 minute to clear it.

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##### Elite Command: Swift!
*Prerequisites: Small size or smaller companion*

You can expend a Command Die at the beginning of your companion's turn to have them make the most of their fleetness, as if it were for the fate of their life. They gain the following benefits until the end of their turn:

- Their movement is unaffected by difficult terrain.
- Their movement speed increases by 10 feet.
- Spells and other magical effects can neither reduce their speed nor cause them to be paralyzed or restrained.
- They can spend 5 feet of movement to instantly escape from nonmagical restraints like manacles or a grapple.
- Swimming or being underwater imposes no penalties on their movements or their attack or skill check rolls.

##### Elite Command: Tear!
*Prerequisites: Medium size or larger companion*

Your companion rips into your enemy with everything they've got. When your companion hits a creature with a melee weapon attack, you can expend an Exploit Die and force it to make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, it takes additional bludgeoning damage equal to two rolls of your Command Die and until the end of the creature's next turn, it has disadvantage on attack rolls and ability checks, and it cannot take reactions.

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## Stalwart
Those who aim to tame the big, tough animals of the world become stalwart tamers. Whether it be bears, great white sharks, or other large beasts of the world, stalwart tamers have no fear in the presence of a creature larger than them.

### Stalwart Companion
When you choose this beast companion at 1st level, any time you finish a long rest, you may turn a medium or large size, non-flying bonded companion you have or that you just made into a Stalwart Companion.  You may only ever have one Stalwart companion at a time. A stalwart companion is functionally the same as a bonded companion, but replace the normal statistics for a bonded companion with the statistics below:

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> ## Stalwart Companion
>*Medium or Large beast*
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> - **Armor Class** 12
> - **Hit Points** 6 + (beast's constitution modifier + 3) * (Tamer level)
> - **Speed** 30ft. (walking or swimming)
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>|STR|DEX|CON|INT|WIS|CHA|
>|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|
>|16 (+3)|12 (+1)|16 (+3)|4 (-3)|10 (+0)|6 (-2)|
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> - **Saving Throws** Str +3
> - **Skills** Athletics +3, Perception +1
> - **Senses** passive Perception 10
> - **Languages** Understands its Tamer's languages
> - ***Tamed Companion***. Your companion gains a bonus to its skill and saving throw bonuses (above) and the bonuses to hit and damage of its attack (below) equal to your proficiency bonus.
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> ### Actions
> ***Strike.*** *Melee Attack:* +3 to hit, reach 5ft., one target. *Hit:*  1d10 + (beast's Strength modifier) bludgeoning damage

Your stalwart companion regains hit points equal to 6 + your beast's constitution modifier every time you expend a hit die, and regains all of its health at the end of a long rest.

If your stalwart companion dies and is then revived by magical means, it immediately becomes your stalwart companion again unless you already have another stalwart companion, in which case it becomes a bonded companion.

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The following subclass features and traits for stalwart companions do not apply to bonded companions. A bonded companion must meet the criteria for becoming a stalwart companion and then be made into one at the end of a long rest before gaining any of the features and traits.

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### Get Big
At 3rd level, you understand the importance of size and standing your ground around hostile or territorial beasts. When you make a Wisdom (Animal Handing) or Charisma (Intimidation) skill check against a creature that is not friendly towards you or a party member, you may add your Strength modifier to the result.

### Unbreakable Fortitude
At 7th level, whenever your stalwart companion is forced to make a saving throw you may use your reaction to give it advantage on the saving throw. If you do this and your stalwart companion succeeds on the saving throw, you may have your stalwart companion move to the nearest adjacent space to the creature and make one melee weapon attack against it if the creature is within 15 feet of your stalwart companion.

### Moving Mountain
At 13th level, your stalwart companion acts as a defensible moving mound on the battlefield. When you use your bonus action to order your stalwart companion to take the help action, the creature it helps is considered behind half cover until the beginning of your next turn.

### Barbaric Ferocity
At 17th level, your stalwart companion gains the 
Barbarian class features Reckless Attack and Rage 
as if they were 5th level barbarian.

### Stalwart Beast Traits

##### Blood Frenzy
After you deal damage to a creature that is not a construct, ooze, or undead, your beast has advantage on any attacks it makes for the remainder of that turn.

##### Bulk
Your beast gains 1hp per level of Tamer you have currently and each time you level up in Tamer your beast gains an additional 1hp. Its natural AC becomes 13. This trait may be taken up to two times. Upon taking this trait a second time, your beast becomes immune to the poisoned condition and its natural AC becomes 14.

##### Climber
If your stalwart companion is a land animal, it gains a climbing speed of 20 feet. It cannot climb upside down without a successful DC 15 Athletics skill check on a turn in which they attempt it.

##### Enhanced
Improve two different ability scores of your beast by 2. The maximum for any ability score is 20. This trait may be taken up to two times.

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##### Intimidating Charge
Your beast is naturally daunting. If your beast moves at least 20 feet directly towards a creature and then attempts at least one melee weapon attack during your turn, the creature must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw (DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + the beast's Constitution modifier) or be frightened of your beast for 1 minute. Any time the frightened creature takes damage, it may repeat the saving throw, ending the effect on itself on a success. A creature that makes the saving throw for this effect can't be frightened in the same way again for 24 hours.

##### Keen Sense
Your beast has advantage when making perception (Wisdom) checks that rely on two of the following senses of your choice: sight, smell, or hearing.

##### Powerful
Your beast's Strike now uses 1d12 for its damage dice rather than 1d10.

##### Relentless
If the beast takes damage less than three times your proficiency bonus that would reduce it to 0hp, it instead is reduced down to 1hp and no less.

##### Savage
Once per turn, when you roll damage for your beast's melee weapon attack, you may reroll the damage dice and use either total.

##### Snarl / Roar
Your beast becomes proficient in the Intimidation (Charisma) skill. Additionally, you can choose to replace the Charisma modifier added to a Intimidation (Charisma) check with the beast's Strength modifier.

##### Steed
While acting as a mount, your beast can be issued commands, take the help action, and attack with its strike.

##### Tough
Your beast gains resistance to one type of damage of your choice. This trait may be taken up to two times.

##### Trampler
If your beast moves at least 20 feet towards an enemy and then hits that enemy with a melee weapon attack, that enemy must succeed on a Strength saving throw (DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + the beast's Strength modifier) or be knocked prone. Additionally, when a prone creature is hit by your beast's strike, instead of rolling damage it suffers the maximum result the damage dice can roll.

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## Stalker
Those who aim to tame the medium-sized animals of the world become stalker tamers. Whether it be wolves, tiger sharks, or other medium beasts of the world, stalker tamers aim to become the alpha of the pack.

### Stalker Companion
When you choose this beast companion at 1st level, any time you finish a long rest, you may turn a medium size, non-flying bonded companion you have or that you just made into a Stalker Companion. You may only ever have one Stalker companion at a time. A stalker companion is functionally the same as a bonded companion, but replace the normal statistics for a bonded companion with the statistics below:

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> ## Stalker Companion
>*Small or Medium beast*
> ___
> - **Armor Class** 10 + beast's Dexterity modifier + half of Tamer's proficiency bonus (rounded down)
> - **Hit Points** 4 + (beast's constitution modifier + 3) * (Tamer level)
> - **Speed** 40ft. (walking or swimming)
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>|STR|DEX|CON|INT|WIS|CHA|
>|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|
>|16 (+3)|14 (+2)|12 (+1)|4 (-3)|12 (+1)|10 (+0)|
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> - **Saving Throws** Dex +2
> - **Skills** Athletics +3, Perception +1
> - **Senses** passive Perception 11
> - **Languages** Understands its Tamer's languages
> - ***Tamed Companion***.  Your companion gains a bonus to its skill and saving throw bonuses (above) and the bonuses to hit and damage of its attack (below) equal to your proficiency bonus.
> ___
> ### Actions
> ***Strike.*** *Melee Attack:* +3 to hit, reach 5ft., one target. *Hit:*  1d10 + (beast's Strength modifier) slashing damage

Your stalker companion regains hit points equal to 5 + your beast's constitution modifier every time you expend a hit die, and regains all of its health at the end of a long rest.

If your stalker companion dies and is then revived by magical means, it immediately becomes your stalker companion again unless you already have another stalker companion, in which case it becomes a bonded companion.

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The following subclass features and traits for stalker companions do not apply to bonded companions. A bonded companion must meet the criteria for becoming a stalker companion and then be made into one at the end of a long rest before gaining any of the features and traits.

### Pecking Order
At 3rd level, you are attuned to the natural order found within different circles of beasts. By observing a beast or group of beasts of the same species for one minute, you can determine what level of status, if any, each beast has in its group. This can inform you of whether a beast is a leader, a follower, an outcast, a scout, a warrior, or any other relevant status or job the beast holds in its tribe, if any.

### Soul Bond
At 7th level, while you are within 5 feet of your stalker companion, whenever you or your companion becomes the target of an attack, you may use your reaction to have your stalker companion be the target instead or vice versa.

Additionally, your stalker companion gains the ability to attune to one magic item as long as the magic item is a melee weapon or a piece of wearable jewelry such as a bracelet, necklace, ring, etc. The stalker companion does not have to hold or carry the attuned magic item as long as you are carrying the magic item on your person. If the magic item your stalker companion is attuned to lacks the heavy, two-handed, or thrown properties, your stalker companion gains any benefits the weapon grants as if it was wielding the weapon and proficient with it.

### Support the Alpha
At 13th level, your stalker companion gains a deeper admiration for your leadership and puts its all into being the best ally it can be. Whenever you use your bonus action to order your stalker companion to take the help action and then make both of your attacks yourself, regardless of who you ordered your stalker companion to help, you have advantage on the second attack you make.

### Fighting Spirit
At 17th level, your stalker companion gains the Fighter 
class features Fighting Style (can apply any Fighting 
Style to its Strike attacks) and Extra Attack.

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### Stalker Beast Traits

##### Alpha Assistant
You have advantage on one type of saving throw as long as your stalker companion is within 30 feet of you. This trait may be taken up to three times, choosing a different type of saving throw each time.

##### Climber
If your stalker companion is a land animal, it gains a climbing speed of 20 feet.  It cannot climb upside down without a successful DC 15 Athletics skill check on a turn in which they attempt it.

##### Constrictor
If your stalker companion is a medium size snake or other appropriate animal, you gain the ability to order it to make a grapple check as a bonus action. This trait is incompatible with the quick trait. If you pick this trait, you cannot pick the other.

##### Charger
If your beast moves at least 20 feet towards an enemy and then hits that enemy with a melee weapon attack, that enemy must succeed on a Strength saving throw (DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + the beast's Strength modifier) or take additional damage equal to your proficiency bonus and either be knocked prone or moved to a different spot within 5 feet (your choice).

##### Defend the Pack
You have +2 to your AC as long as your stalker companion is within 10 feet of you.

##### Enhanced
Improve two different ability scores of your beast by 2. The maximum for any ability score is 20. This trait may be taken up to two times.

##### Follow the Trail
By letting your beast smell an object or a piece of an object a creature has worn or carried within the last 24 hours, it can pick up the scent of the creature or its trail. After smelling the object, your beast becomes aware of any locations the creature has been within half a mile of the beast in the last 24 hours and can guide you to any location along the trail you order it to take you. This can include the location of the creature, if that creature is within the half mile radius.

##### Keen Sense
Your beast has advantage when making perception (Wisdom) checks that rely on two of the following senses of your choice: sight, smell, or hearing.

##### Nocturnal
Your beast has 120 feet of darkvision and while you and/or party members are sleeping can act as an alert sentry that will wake you if it perceives something undesirable within its range of vision.

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##### Pack Tactics
Your beast has advantage on an Attack roll against a creature if you or at least one of your allies is within 5 feet of the creature and you or the ally isn't Incapacitated.

##### Pounce
If your beast moves at least 20 feet towards an enemy and then hits that enemy with a melee attack roll, that enemy must succeed on a Strength saving throw (DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + the beast's Strength modifier) or your beast may immediately make another Strike against the enemy.

##### Quick
Your companion is particularly quick and its movement speed becomes 50 feet. This trait is incompatible with the constrictor trait. If you pick this trait, you cannot pick the other.

##### Steed
While acting as a mount, your beast can be issued commands, take the help action, and attack with its strike.

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## Sinister
Those who aim to tame the small-sized animals of the world become sinister tamers. Whether it be snakes, eels, or other small beasts of the world, sinister tamers aim to become the big boss of small critters.

### Sinister Companion
When you choose this beast companion at 1st level, any time you finish a long rest, you may turn a small size, non-flying bonded companion you have or that you just made into a Sinister Companion. You may only ever have one Sinister companion at a time.  A sinister companion is functionally the same as a bonded companion, but replace the normal statistics for a bonded companion with the statistics below:

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> ## Sinister Companion
>*Tiny or Small beast*
> ___
> - **Armor Class** 10 + beast's Dexterity modifier + half of Tamer's proficiency bonus (rounded down)
> - **Hit Points** 3 + (beast's constitution modifier + 2) * (Tamer level)
> - **Speed** 40ft. (walking or swimming)
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>|STR|DEX|CON|INT|WIS|CHA|
>|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|
>|10 (+0)|16 (+3)|12 (+1)|4 (-3)|12 (+1)|14 (+2)|
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> - **Saving Throws** Dex +3
> - **Skills** Acrobatics +3, Perception +1
> - **Senses** passive Perception 11
> - **Languages** Understands its Tamer's languages
> - ***Tamed Companion***.  Your companion gains a bonus to its skill and saving throw bonuses (above) and the bonuses to hit and damage of its attack (below) equal to your proficiency bonus.
> ___
> ### Actions
> ***Strike.*** *Melee Attack:* +3 to hit, reach 5ft., one target. *Hit:*  1d8 + (beast's Dexterity modifier) piercing damage

Your sinister companion regains hit points equal to 4 + your beast's constitution modifier every time you expend a hit die, and regains all of its health at the end of a long rest.

If your sinister companion dies and is then revived by magical means, it immediately becomes your sinister companion again unless you already have another sinister companion, in which case it becomes a bonded companion.

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The following subclass features and traits for sinister companions do not apply to bonded companions. A bonded companion must meet the criteria for becoming a sinister companion and then be made into one at the end of a long rest before gaining any of the features and traits.

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### Angel on the Shoulder
At 3rd level, your bond with small animals naturally charms other people who love animals. After making a skill check that causes a small size or smaller animal to like you or your bonded companion, and that animal belongs to another humanoid, you have advantage on the next Charisma (Persuasion) check you make against that animal's owner in the next 10 minutes. Once you have used this ability on a humanoid, you cannot use it on that same humanoid again for 24 hours.

### Unnerving Duplicity
At 7th level, you have advantage on dexterity saving throws against enemy spells.  In addition, the first creature your sinister companion successfully hits with its strike on the first round of combat must make a Wisdom saving throw. The saving throw DC equals 8 + your proficiency bonus + the beast's Charisma modifier. On a failure, your beast threw the enemy off guard, giving all attack rolls made against that creature advantage until the beginning of your next turn.

### Devil on the Shoulder
Starting at 13th level, your sinister companion's presence near an enemy causes them to make mistakes. Whenever you use your bonus action to order your sinister companion to take the help action, after the attack is made the enemy must make a Wisdom saving throw. The saving throw DC equals 8 + your proficiency bonus + the beast's Charisma modifier. On a failure, the enemy loses its reaction and its movement is halved until the end of its next turn as it spends the time shooing and being wary of your sinister companion.

### Rogue Cunning
At 17th level, your sinister companion gains a special action it can use once on each of its turns. It can use this action only to take the Dash, Disengage, or Hide action. Additionally, it gains the Rogue class feature Sneak Attack as if it were 5th level rogue.

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### Sinister Beast Traits

##### Adhesive Toes / Spider Climb
If your beast is a land animal, it can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without needing to make an ability check.

##### Barbed Hide
Your beast has spikes, needles, or scales on its body that provide +1 to its AC and make it unable to be swallowed by any creature with a size smaller than gargantuan. In addition, when a creature grapples your beast or hits it with a melee attack that doesn't use a weapon, such as a bite or claw attack, your beast can make one melee weapon attack against the attacker.

##### Blindsight
Your beast gains a blindsight of 30 feet.

##### Camouflage
Your beast has advantage on Stealth (Dexterity) skill checks while in its normal habitat, as determined by the DM. Additionally, once per day while in this habitat, it can become invisible as an action until it makes an attack or one minute passes. You may only take this trait if you have first picked the sneaky trait.

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##### Cute
Your beast is adorable to most creatures. It gains +2 to Charisma and has proficiency in Deception (Charisma), Performance (Charisma), and Persuasion (Charisma).

##### Enhanced
Improve two different ability scores of your beast by 2. The maximum for any ability score is 20. This trait may be taken up to two times.

##### Gouging Claws / Venomous
When your beast has advantage on a melee weapon attack, you can choose to have it sacrifice the advantage. If you do and it hits, it deals either additional piercing or poison damage (your choice) equal to 1d8 + half your level in Tamer (rounded down) and the enemy gains the poisoned condition until the end of your next turn.

##### Heartening
Your beast can nuzzle up to an ally it ends its turn within 5 feet of in an exceptionally adorable way. If it does, that ally either adds your beast's Charisma modifier to one saving throw of its choice it makes before the beginning of your next turn or to one skill check of the its choice it makes within the next minute. Once the beast uses this trait, it can't use it again until you have finished a short or long rest.

##### Keen Sense
Your beast has advantage when making Perception (Wisdom) checks that rely on two of the following senses of your choice: sight, smell, or hearing.

##### Poisonous
Once per turn, when your beast is dealt damage, all enemies within 5 feet of your beast must succeed on a Constitution saving throw (DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + the beast's Dexterity modifier) or take poison damage equal to 1d8 + half your level in Tamer (rounded down).

##### Pounce
If your beast moves at least 20 feet towards an enemy and then hits that enemy with a melee weapon attack, that enemy must succeed on a Strength saving throw (DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + the beast's Dexterity modifier) or your beast may make another Strike against the enemy.

##### Skitterer
Your beast can move through the spaces of other creatures without it being considered difficult terrain and can occupy another creature's space. In addition, if your beast ends its turn in another creature's space and remains in its space until the beginning of your next turn, it learns of and informs you of any small objects the creature is hiding on its body or in its clothing.

##### Sneaky
Your beast gains proficiency in the Stealth (Dexterity) skill, using your proficiency bonus and its own Dexterity modifier.

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## Scout
Those who aim to tame flying and quick swimming animals become scout tamers. Whether it be eagles, swordfish, or other unique beasts of the world, scout tamers aim to  provide that key perspective on the battlefield and the world.

### Scout Companion
When you choose this beast companion at 1st level, any time you finish a long rest, you may turn a small or medium size, flying or swimming bonded companion you have or that you just made into a Scout Companion. You may only ever have one Scout companion at a time.  A scout companion is functionally the same as a bonded companion, but replace the normal statistics for a bonded companion with the statistics below:

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> ## Scout Companion
>*Small or Medium beast*
> ___
> - **Armor Class** 10 + beast's Dexterity modifier + half of Tamer's proficiency bonus (rounded down)
> - **Hit Points** 3 + (beast's constitution modifier + 2) * (Tamer level)
> - **Speed** 50ft. (flying or swimming)
>___
>|STR|DEX|CON|INT|WIS|CHA|
>|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|
>|8 (-1)|16 (+3)|12 (+1)|4 (-3)|16 (+3)|12 (+1)|
>___
> - **Saving Throws** Wis +3
> - **Skills** Acrobatics +3, Perception +3
> - **Senses** passive Perception 13
> - **Languages** Understands its Tamer's languages
> - ***Tamed Companion***.  Your companion gains a bonus to its skill and saving throw bonuses (above) and the bonuses to hit and damage of its attack (below) equal to your proficiency bonus.
> ___
> ### Actions
> ***Strike.*** *Melee Attack:* +3 to hit, reach 5ft., one target. *Hit:*  1d6 + (beast's Dexterity modifier) piercing damage

Your scout companion regains hit points equal to 4 + your beast's constitution modifier every time you expend a hit die, and regains all of its health at the end of a long rest.

If your scout companion dies and is then revived by magical means, it immediately becomes your scout companion again unless you already have another scout companion, in which case it becomes a bonded companion.

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The following subclass features and traits for scout companions do not apply to bonded companions. A bonded companion must meet the criteria for becoming a scout companion and then be made into one at the end of a long rest before gaining any of the features and traits.

### Eyes of an Apex
At 3rd level, you have learned to see like a bird of prey. You can tell exactly how far something you can see is away from you, to the nearest foot. You can also tell exactly what size category a creature you can see is, its obvious physical characteristics, and if it belongs to a species you have seen before, regardless of its distance from you.

### Visual Acuity
Starting at 7th level, your scout companion is always actively guarding you from potentially unseeable surprises and alerting you of their presence before you are caught off guard. You cannot be surprised by creatures within 60 feet of you that are not invisible.

Additionally, you gain the ability to order your beast to fly/swim between 100 and 1000 feet above you and observe the area within a mile radius around you for something of your choice that can be easily spotted from above, whether it be a certain creature/object, something potentially dangerous, or anything odd. After 1 minute of observation, it will return to you and report its findings in a simple yet understandable way to you.

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### Weakness Spotter
Starting at 13th level, your scout companion can aid in spotting an enemy's weaknesses by studying its physiology and tactics. When you use your bonus action to order your scout companion to take the help action,  your beast may make a Wisdom (Insight) skill check against the enemy the beast is helping you or an ally attack, contested by the enemy's Charisma (Deception) skill check. If it succeeds and the attack hits, they deal an additional damage die of damage and the enemy has disadvantage on its first attack during its next turn.

### Monk Tranquility
At 17th level, your scout companion gains the Monk class features Deflect Missiles and Stunning Strike as if they were 5th level monk. They also gain the ki points of a 5th level monk but can only use them for deflect missiles and stunning strike.

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### Scout Beast Traits

##### Calculated Strike
Your beast adds its Wisdom modifier to the damage of its strikes.

##### Dive Attack
If your beast is at least 30 feet above an enemy and moves in a straight line to that enemy before making a melee weapon attack, the first attack it makes on that turn deals an additional 2d6 damage.

##### Enhanced
Improve two different ability scores of your beast by 2. The maximum for any ability score is 20. This trait may be taken up to two times.

##### Entrancing Performance
You and your beast have perfected a small gimmick that awes people. Your beast attempts to induce the effects of *charm person* at a spell level equal to your proficiency bonus - 1. The saving throw DC is equal to 8 + your proficiency bonus + the beast's Wisdom modifier. You must finish a short or long rest before you use this trait again.

##### Flyby
Your beast doesn't provoke opportunity attacks when it flies or swims out of an enemy's reach.

##### Keen Sense
Your beast has advantage when making perception (Wisdom) checks that rely on two of the following senses of your choice: sight, smell, or hearing.

##### Rescue Pet
Your beast is trained at providing you and your allies with aid. You may use your bonus action to order your beast to perform the *spare the dying* cantrip. You may alternatively order it to perform the *cure wounds* spell at first level, using the beast's Wisdom as its spellcasting ability modifier, but then you must finish a short or long rest in order to use this trait again. Both of these spells require no components to use.

##### Second Eyes
You have advantage on one type of Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma skill check of your choice as long as your beast is within 30 feet of you. This trait may be taken up to three times, picking a different skill each time.

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##### Surveyor
Your beast can detect things most people cannot. When you choose this trait, choose either invisible or magically disguised. As a bonus action, you may order your beast to observe the area in its range of vision for any object or creature that meets that description. If anything in that range fits the description, it will tell you exactly where the invisible things are or which things are being magically disguised / mimicking something else. You may choose this trait up to two times, choosing the other of the two options upon taking it the second time.

##### Trap Sensor
Your beast is automatically aware when there is a trap within its normal range of vision and will alert you of its presence. It cannot tell what the trap does or what sets it off.

##### Unwavering Target
Once per turn, when your beast makes an attack with its strike, you may have it ignore disadvantage it has on that strike. If you do, it can't gain advantage on that strike either.

##### Zip and Zoom
Once per turn, while within 5 feet of you or an allied creature, whenever you or the ally are forced to drop an item or miss a ranged attack on a creature within 10 feet of you or the ally, your beast retrieves the items or ammunition and puts it back into your possession in a burst of speed that doesn't provoke opportunity attacks.

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The class took inspiration from a variety of sources, but most notably:
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