Quick Build

You can make a blood hunter quickly by following these suggestions. First, make Strength or Dexterity your highest ability score, depending on whether you want to focus on melee weapons, or ranged and finesse weapons. Make Wisdom your next highest if you plan to focus on the potency of blood curses and mystical power. Choose a higher Constitution next if you wish to use Crimson Rite on multiple weapons or want to have extra hit points to burn on amplifying blood curses. Then, select the Haunted One or Acolyte background.

Blood Hunter Multiclass Prerequisites

Ability Score Minimum: Strength or Dexterity 13, and Wisdom 13

Blood Hunter Multiclassing Proficiencies

Proficiencies Gained: Light armor, medium armor, heavy armor, shields, simple weapons, martial weapons, alchemical supplies

Blood Hunter Mutliclassing With Warlock

If multiclassing Order of the Profane Soul with Warlock levels, add a third of your blood hunter levels (rounded down) to your Warlock level and consult the Warlock progression table for total Spell Slots, and Spell Slot Level. To decide your spell casting ability for your warlock spells, choose that of the class with the higher level (choose between the two if levels are equal).

Hit Points

Hit Dice: 1d10 per blood hunter level
Hit Points at 1st Level: 10 + your Constitution modifier
Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d10 (or 6) + your Constitution modifier per blood hunter level after 1st

Proficiencies

Armor: All armor, shields
Weapons: Simple weapons, martial weapons
Tools: Alchemist's supplies
Saving Throws: Strength, Wisdom
Skills: Choose two from Athletics, Acrobatics, Arcana, Insight, Investigation, and Survival

Equipment

You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:

• (a) a martial weapon or (b) two simple melee weapons
• (a) a light crossbow and 20 bolts or (b) a hand crossbow and 20 bolts
• (a) studded leather armor or (b) scale mail armor
• an explorer's pack

Hunter's Bane

Beginning at 1st level, you have survived the imbibing of the Hunter's Bane, a poisonous alchemical concoction that alters your very being. You have advantage on Wisdom (survival) checks to track Aberrations, Fey, Fiends, Monstrosities and Undead, as well as on Intelligence checks to recall information about them. If you are tracking one of these creature types, you cannot be surprised by creatures of that type. You can only be tracking one type of creature at a time

Upon reaching 11th level, you can stir the alchemical ingredients within your blood to gain an edge over others. As a bonus action you can gain advantage on a single Wisdom (Insight) check or Charisma (Intimidation) check by expending a hit dice.

Esoteric Rite

Beginning at 3rd level, you gain a new esoteric rite, which is detailed below:

Rite of the Dawn. Your rite damage is radiant type. When you hit an Undead with a weapon bearing your rite of the dawn, they take additional radiant damage equal to your Wisdom modifier. Upon reaching 11th level, any creature hit with your rite of the dawn suffers additional radiant damage equal to your Wisdom modifier.

Dabbler Of Death

Beginning at 3rd level, your fascination with the passing of other creatures has bore fruit. You gain proficiency in the medicine skill.

Hallowed Veins

Beginning at 3rd level, your blood curses tear into a creature's very being. Your blood curses now affect a creature regardless of whether or not they have blood.

Spectral Step

Beginning at 7th level, you've learned to step briefly into the spirit world from our own. As a bonus action on your turn you can become spectral. Until the end of your turn, you can move through creatures and objects as if they were difficult terrain, and attacks of opportunity against you have disadvantage. You take 1d10 force damage if you end your turn inside an object. If you are inside an object when you are no longer spectral, you are immediately shunted to the nearest unoccupied space that you can occupy and take force damage equal to twice the number of feet you moved.

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

Hallowed Strikes

Beginning at 11th level, the swiftness of death empowers your strikes. Whenever you take the Attack action on your turn, you can choose to expend a use of your Spectral Step feature. When you do so, you can make three attacks instead of two. You then gain the benefits of your Spectral Step feature as normal.

Like The Grave

Beginning at 15th level, you've become familiar with the dead and their abilities. You can see through magical darkness up to 30 feet and invisible creatures and objects up to 30 feet.

Additionally, you gain resistance to necrotic damage and your hit point maximum cannot be reduced by anything save your Crimson Rite feature.

Vengeful Spirit

Upon reaching 18th level, you learn to project your spirit to fight on while on the edge of death. Whenever your hit points drop to 0, you can choose to let your soul emerge from your body to fight on. Your body remains unconscious and subject to death saving throws per normal. At the beginning of your next turn, you manifest a spirit form in your space that picks up your weapons and continues fighting on, acting on your turn and every one of your subsequent turns under your control. Your spirit form has your physical attributes and armor class, as well as your weapons and ammunition, and can move through other creatures and objects as if they were difficult terrain. This form is immune to cold, necrotic, and non-magical weapon damage, as well as the exhausted, grappled, paralyzed, prone and restrained conditions. Your spirit form has access to all of your abilities and suffers no damage from your Crimson Rite feature.

If your spirit form takes any damage, your body dies, or you regain any hit points, your spirit form vanishes. If your spirit form vanishes, it drops your weapons in its space.

Esoteric Rite

Beginning at 3rd level, you gain a new esoteric rite, which is detailed below:

Rite of Venom. Your rite damage type is poison.

Alchemical Adept

Beginning at 3rd level, you've learned to craft new tools and weaponry on the fly. You gain the following benefits:

• Your proficiency bonus is doubled for any check that uses Alchemist's supplies

• If you craft a magical item in the potion category, it takes you half the usual time and costs half as much gold.

Mutagens

Beginning at 3rd level, you learn how to enhance your own strength with powerful substances known as mutagens. You learn three mutagen formulas, which are required to craft their respective mutagens, from the list below. You can craft a single mutagen during a short or long rest, and you can imbibe a mutagen to gain its benefits as a bonus action. When you do, you gain the benefits of that mutagen until your next short or long rest.

Mutagens are chemically unstable, and are made for your physiology. Any mutagens you've crafted previously that you have not used become inert and useless during your next short or long rest. If anyone other than you imbibes one of your mutagens, they must make a DC 15 con save or be poisoned for 1 hour.

You learn to craft three mutagens from the list below.

Deep Lake. You have advantage on Constitution saving throws.

Calm Sea. You gain advantage on Wisdom saving throws.

Nighteye. You gain darkvision out to 60 feet. If you already have darkvision, its range extends by 60 feet.

Killer Whale. You can hold your breath for up to 1 hour. Additionally, you gain a swim speed equal to your walking speed.

Prowler. You have advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks while not wearing heavy armor.

Intuition. You have advantage on Wisdom (Insight) and Wisdom (Perception) checks.

Celerity. Your walking speed increases by 10 feet.

Communion. Whenever you would roll dice to regain hit points, you treat any dice as having rolled their maximum roll. This mutagen does not affect hit dice during a short rest.

You learn to craft an additional mutagen at 7th level, 11th level, 15th level, and 18th level. Additionally, when you gain a new mutagen formula, you can choose one of the formulas you already know and replace it with another mutagen formula.

Advanced Mutagen Craft

Beginning at 7th level, you've become quite skilled at crafting mutagens to alter your physical form. You can now craft two mutagens during a short or long rest.

Greater Mutagens

Beginning at 11th level, you've learned to craft more powerful mutagens known as greater mutagens. These mutagens are much more volatile, and wear off after 1 minute. Whenever you learn a mutagen from this class, or replace a mutagen known, you can choose to learn a greater mutagen instead.

Aether. You gain a flying speed of 20 feet.

Cruelty. You can make a single melee weapon attack as a bonus action on each of your turns.

Reconstruction. You gain a number of temporary hit points at the start of your turn equal to half your Blood Hunter level if you are above 0 hit points.

Once you use a greater mutagen, you cannot use another one until you finish a long rest.

Robust Physiology.

Beginning at 15th level, constant experimentation has hardened your physical form. You gain immunity to the poisoned condition as well as poison damage.

Master Mutagen Craft

Beginning at 15th level, you've mastered crafting mutagens even in short amounts of time. You can now craft three mutagens during a short or long rest.

Physiological Shift

Beginning at 18th level, your body has begun producing one or multiple of your mutagens on its own. Choose two lesser mutagens or one greater mutagen that you know. You are always under the effects of your chosen mutagen(s) from now on.

Pact Magic

When you reach 3rd level, you can augment your combat techniques with the ability to cast spells. See chapter 10 of the Player's Handbook for the general rules of spellcasting and chapter 11 in the Player's Handbook for the Warlock spell list.

Cantrips. You learn two cantrips of your choice from the warlock spell list. You learn an additional warlock cantrip of your choice at 10th level.

Spell Slots. The Profane Soul Spellcasting table shows how many spell slots you have. The table also shows what the level of those slots is; all of your spell slots are the same level.

To cast one of your warlock spells of 1st level or higher, you must expend a spell slot. You regain all expended spell slots when you finish a short or long rest.

For example, when you are 8th level, you have two 2nd-level spell slots. To cast the 1st-level spell witch bolt, you must spend one of those slots, and you cast it as a 2nd-level spell.

Spells Known of 1st Level and Higher. At 3rd level, you know two 1st-level spells of your choice from the warlock spell list.

The Spells Known column of the Profane Soul table shows when you learn more warlock spells of your choice of 1st level and higher. A spell you choose must be of a level no higher than what’s shown in the table’s Slot Level column for your level. When you reach 11th level, for example, you learn a new warlock spell, which can be 1st, 2nd, or 3rd level.

Additionally, when you gain a level in this class and order, you can choose one of the warlock spells you know and replace is with another spell from the warlock spell list, which also must be of a level for which you have spell slots.

Spellcasting Ability. Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for your warlock spells, so you use your Wisdom whenever a spell refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your Wisdom modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a warlock spell you cast and when making an attack roll with one.

Spell save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Wisdom modifier

Spell attack modifier = your proficiency bonus + your Wisdom modifier

Fiend

The Archfey

The Great Old One

The Undying

Esoteric Rite

Beginning at 3rd level, you gain a new Esoteric Rite, which is detailed below:

Rite of Quicksilver. Your rite's damage type is slashing. The weapon that bears this rite counts as being silvered.

Heightened Senses

Beginning at 3rd level, you have advantage on Wisdom (perception) checks that rely on hearing or smell.

Hybrid Form

Beginning at 3rd level, you've gained access to a powerful lycanthropic form. As an action, you can transform into your hybrid form. This form lasts for 10 minutes, or until you use an action to revert to your normal form. You automatically revert to your normal form if you fall unconscious, drop to 0 hit points, or die.

The benefits of this form replace the rules for Lycanthropy in the monster manual. You can use this feature twice, regaining spent uses on a short or long rest. While in this form, you gain the following traits:

Beast Claws. You gain large claws on each hand. These claws are natural weapons, have the finesse property, and on hit they deal 1d10 slashing damage. They also count as a single weapon for the purpose of your Crimson Rite feature.

This damage increases to 1d12 at 11th level.

Beast Might. You have advantage on strength checks and strength saving throws.

Weakness To Silver. While in your hybrid form, you are vulnerable to attacks from weapons made of silver.

Stalker's Prowess

Beginning at 7th level your speed increases by 10 feet. You can also add 3 feet to your high jump distance and 10 feet to your long jump distance. Additionally, your beast claws are now considered magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity.

Advanced Transformation

Beginning at 11th level, you've begun to control the beast blood within you with greater precision. You can now assume your hybrid form as a bonus action. When you enter your hybrid form, it now lasts for 1 hour.

Additionally, when you enter your hybrid form as a bonus action, you can choose to immediately activate your rite of quicksilver.

Pack Hunter

Beginning at 11th level, you have advantage on attack rolls against creatures if at least one of your allies is within 5 feet and that ally isn't incapacitated.

Lycanthropic Adrenaline

Beginning at 15th level, while in your hybrid form and below half your maximum hit points you gain a number of temporary hit points at the start of your turn equal to 1 + your Wisdom modifier (minimum of 1). You don't gain these hit points while unconscious.

Lycanthropic Mastery

Beginning at 18th level, you can now use your Hybrid form three times between short or long rest.

Dread Howl

Beginning at 18th level, as an action you can expend a use of your Blood Maledict feature to howl at any number of creatures within 30 feet, chilling their blood and stunning them with fear. Any of the target creatures must make a Wisdom saving throw (DC equal 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Wisdom modifier). On a failed save they are frightened of you until the end of your next turn. If they fail by 5 or more, they are stunned instead. A creature that succeeds on this saving throw is immune to this feature for the next 24 hours.

Additionally, you can choose to expend a hit dice when you use this feature but before its effects take place. When you do so, the range increases to 60 feet.

Base Class

• Crimson Rite no longer deals damage to you. It still lowers your maximum hit points however. The distinction is important. If you drop your rite and activate it immediately after, you won't lose any hit points. You will still lose the hitpoints from having your maximum hit points lowered though.
• Amplifying Blood Maledicts, as well as gaining advantage on checks via Hunter's Bane, now costs a hit dice instead of costing health. The mechanic is admittedly a bit dicey, since it makes long days of adventuring more dangerous rather than immediately making the situation in front of you more dangerous, however I think it's fine. My biggest issue with original blood hunter was how much it lowered your hit points. Mathematically, Crimson Rite alone makes you what is essentially a D8 melee class, and that's only with one Crimson Rite. God forbid if you use two like a certain loveable tiefling I know of. Lowering the self damage makes the class much more consistent, and puts its power budget in line with existing classes.
• Added new, level prerequisite blood curses. This is part of a slew of future new blood curses that are meant to allow the class to scale better into later levels. For now though, I've only finished 5th level.
• Added Heavy Armor proficiency for Strength characters.
• Added new creature types to Hunter's Bane.

Subclasses

Order of the Ghostslayer

• Removed clause on Rite of Dawn for costing less hit points, as the class as a whole now cost less hit points.
• Granted proficiency in medicine through a new feature, Dabbler of Death. This is meant to represent your time studying death and undeath. May be changed to Arcana in the future.
• Moved Hallowed Veins to 3rd level, as it feels like a core feature for the subclass.
• Moved part of original Blood Hunter's Supernal Surge feature to 7th level, making it its own feature.
• Added the attacking part of Supernal Surge as the 11th level feature.
• Added immunity to having your hit point maximum lowered to 15th level feature, changed name to Like The Grave.

Order of the Mutant

• Added Esoteric Rite feature, and a new rite known as Rite of Venom. Credit for this idea goes to Cixal, as this was pulled from his Blood Hunter Revision.
• Added Alchemical Adept feature. Credit for this idea goes to Cixal, as this idea was pulled from his Blood Hunter revision.
• Completely redid the Mutagen feature, getting rid of side effects/downsides on mutagens. Also added several new mutagens based on potions in The Witcher 3 or Cixal's Blood Hunter Revision.
• Replaced Strange Metabolism with Greater Mutagen feature, making more powerful mutagens from the higher level mutagens from original blood hunter.
• Added Physiological Shift feature, replacing Exalted Mutation feature.

Order of the Profane Soul

• Added Expanded Spell List based on patron choice, credit for this idea once again goes to Cixal's Revised Blood Hunter.
• Added Improved Mystic Frenzy in place of Diabolic Channel, as well as removed Revealed Arcana feature. The former change is meant to make the spellcasting more in line with traditional 5E design. The latter is because you already gain spells from your patron through the expanded spell list.
• Added Dark Gift feature to make it feel like your patron choice has more of an impact on you.
• Added Dark Sacrifice, which is an altered version of the original Profane Soul capstone.