Deadly Hunters

Warriors of the wilderness, rangers specialize in hunting the monsters that threaten the edges of civilization — humanoid raiders, rampaging beasts and monstrosities, terrible giants, and deadly dragons. They learn to track their quarry as a predator does, moving stealthily through the wilds and hiding themselves in brush and rubble. Rangers focus their combat training on techniques that are particularly useful against their specific favored foes.

Thanks to their familiarity with the wilds, rangers acquire the ability to cast spells that harness nature’s power, much as a druid does. Their spells, like their combat abilities, emphasize speed, stealth, and the hunt. A ranger’s talents and abilities are honed with deadly focus on the grim task of protecting the borderlands.

Independent Adventurers

Though a ranger might make a living as a hunter, a guide, or a tracker, a ranger’s true calling is to defend the outskirts of civilization from the ravages of monsters and humanoid hordes that press in from the wild. In some places, rangers gather in secretive orders or join forces with druidic circles. Many rangers, though, are independent almost to a fault, knowing that, when a dragon or a band of orcs attacks, a ranger might be the first — and possibly the last — line of defense.

This fierce independence makes rangers well suited to adventuring, since they are accustomed to life far from the comforts of a dry bed and a hot bath. Faced with city-bred adventurers who grouse and whine about the hardships of the wild, rangers respond with some mixture of amusement, frustration, and compassion. But they quickly learn that other adventurers who can carry their own weight in a fight against civilization’s foes are worth any extra burden.

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

• Armor: Light armor, medium armor, shields
• Weapons: Simple weapons, martial weapons
• Tools: None
• Saving Throws: Strength, Dexterity
• Skills: Choose three from Animal Handling, Athletics, History, Insight, Investigation, Medicine, 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

Archery

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

Blind Fighting

You have blindsight with a range of 10 feet. Within that range, you can effectively see anything that isn't behind total cover, even if you're blinded or in darkness. Moreover, you can see an invisible creature within that range, unless that creature successfully hides from you.

Defense

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

Druidic Warrior

You learn two cantrips of your choice from the druid spell list. They count as ranger spells for you, and Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for them. Whenever you gain a level in this class, you can replace one fo these cantrips with another cantrip from the druid spell list.

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.

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 a creature with a ranged attack using a thrown weapon, you gain a +2 bonus to the damage roll.

Two-Weapon Fighting

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

Preparing and Casting Spells

The Ranger table shows how many spell slots you have to cast your ranger spells of 1st level and higher. To cast one of these ranger spells, you must expend a slot of the spell’s level or higher. You regain all expended spell slots when you finish a long rest.

You prepare the list of ranger spells that are available for you to cast, choosing from the ranger spell list. When you do so, choose a number of ranger spells equal to your Wisdom modifier + half your ranger level, rounded down (minimum of one spell). The spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots.

For example, if you are a 3rd-level ranger, you have four 1st-level and two 2nd-level spell slots. With a Wisdom of 16, your list of prepared spells can include six spells of 1st or 2nd level, in any combination. If you prepare the 1st-level spell cure wounds, you can cast it using a 1st-level or 2nd-level slot. Casting the spell doesn’t remove it from your list of prepared spells.

You can also change your list of prepared spells when you finish a long rest. Preparing a new list of ranger spells requires time spent in prayer and meditation: at least 1 minute per spell level for each spell on your list.

Spellcasting Ability

Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for your ranger spells, since your magic draws upon your devotion and attunement to nature. 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 ranger spell you cast and when making an attack roll with one.

Spellcasting Focus

You can use a druidic focus as a spellcasting focus for your ranger spells. See chapter 5, “Equipment,” of the Player’s Handbook for a list of things that count as druidic focuses.

Ritual Casting

You can cast a ranger spell as a ritual if that spell has the ritual tag and you have the spell prepared.

Hunter's Quarry

Beginning at 2nd level, when you target a creature you can see with an attack roll, you can call on your mystical bond with nature to mark the creature as the target of this feature. Alternatively, if you do not wish to attack the creature, you can use a bonus action to mark the creature with this feature.

The first time each turn that you hit that creature with an attack, it takes an extra 1d4 damage from the weapon.

Additionally, you have advantage on any Wisdom (Perception) or Wisdom (Survival) check you make to find it.

This feature’s extra damage increases when you reach certain levels in this class: to 1d6 at 6th level and to 1d8 at 14th level.

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

Ranger Conclave

At 3rd level, you choose to emulate the ideals and training of a ranger conclave. Your choice grants you features at 3rd level and again at 7th, 11th, and 15th level.

Conclave Spells

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

If you gain a conclave spell that doesn’t appear on the ranger spell list, the spell is nonetheless a ranger spell for you.

Expertise

At 3rd level, choose two of your skill proficiencies. Your proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability check you make that uses either of the chosen skills.

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.

Using the optional feats rule, you can forgo taking this feature to take a feat of your choice instead.

Extra Attack

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

Natural Explorer

6th-level ranger feature

Your walking speed increases by 5, and you gain a climbing speed and a swimming speed equal to your walking speed.

Hunter's Quarry Improvement

6th-level ranger feature

You gain extra resilience against your prey’s assaults on your mind and body. Whenever the target of your Hunter's Quarry 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.

This feature's dice increases from a d6 to a d8 at 14th level.

Beast Master

Many rangers are more at home in the wilds than in civilization, to the point where animals consider them kin. Rangers of the Beast Conclave develop a close bond with a beast, then further strengthen that bond through the use of magic.

Conclave Spells

You gain conclave spells at the ranger levels listed.

Back Alley Fighting

At 3rd level, you are accustomed to the unpredictability of urban life and know how to handle a bad situation. You can add your proficiency bonus to your initiative rolls.

Additionally, on the first turn of combat, you have advantage on attack rolls, and each time you hit a creature with an attack, that creature takes an additional 1d8 damage.

Inquisitor

At 3rd level, your experience dealing with the criminal underworld has granted you superior insight against your targets.

You have advantage on Wisdom (Insight) checks against the target of your Hunter's Quarry.

In addition, you gain proficiency in one of the following skills of your choice: Deception, Intimidation, or Persuasion.

Evasive Action

At 7th level, you have learned a variety of techniques that allow you to evade danger. As a bonus action, you gain the benefits of the Dodge action until the start of your next turn, or until you take damage.

Superior Technique

At 11th level, once per turn, if your attack misses the target of your Hunter's Quarry you can see within range of your attack, you can turn the miss into a hit. When you do, the target only takes half damage from that attack.

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

Draconic Gift

3rd-level Drakewarden feature

The bond you share with your drake creates a deeper connection to dragon kind, granting you understanding and empowering your presence. You gain the following benefits:

Thaumaturgy. You learn the thaumaturgy cantrip, which is a ranger spell for you.

Tongue of Dragons. You learn to speak, read, and write, Draconic or one other language of your choice.

Conclave Spells

You gain conclave spells at the ranger levels listed.

Drake Companion

3rd-level Drakewarden feature

As an action, you can magically summon the drake that is bound to you. It appears in an occupied space of your choice within 30 feet of you.

The drake is friendly to you and your companions and obeys your commands. Add your proficiency bonus to the drake’s AC, attack rolls, and damage rolls, as well as to any ability check and saving throw the drake makes. When you summon the drake, choose a damage type listed in its Draconic Essence trait. You can determine the cosmetic characteristics of the drake such as its color, its scale texture, or any visible effect of its Draconic Essence; your choice has no effect on its game statistics.

In combat, the drake acts during your turn. It can move and use its reaction on its own, but the only action it takes is the Dodge action, unless you take a bonus action on your turn to command it to take another action. That action can be one in its stat block or some other 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.

The drake remains until it is reduced to 0 hit points, until you use this feature to summon the drake again, or until you die. Anything the drake was wearing or carrying is left behind when the drake vanishes.

Once you summon the drake, you can't do so again until you finish a short or long rest, unless you expend a spell slot of 1st level or higher to summon it.

Drake Companion

Small dragon

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• Armor Class 14
• Hit Points equal to six times your ranger level (the drake has a number of Hit Dice [d10s] equal to your ranger level)
• Speed 40 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
16 (+3)	12 (+1)	15 (+2)	8 (-1)	14 (+2)	8 (-1)

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• Senses Darkvision 40 ft., passive Perception 12
• Languages Draconic
• Challenge — Proficiency Bonus (PB) equals your bonus

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Draconic Essence. When you summon the drake, choose a damage type: acid, cold, fire, lightning, or poison. The chosen type determines the drake’s damage immunity and the damage of its Infused Strikes trait.

Actions

Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 1d6+3 piercing damage.

Reactions

Infused Strikes. When another creature within 30 feet of the drake that it can see hits a target with a weapon attack, the drake infuses the strike with its essence, causing the target to take an extra 1d6 damage of the type determinde by its Draconic Essence.

Feywild Gifts

Fey Wanderers possess a preternatural blessing from a fey ally or a place of fey power. Choose your blessing from the Feywild Gifts table or determine it randomly.

Conclave Spells

You gain conclave spells at the ranger levels listed.

Cunning Will

At 3rd level, your experience with the fey has guarded your mind and sharpened your tongue. As a result, whenever you make a Charisma check, you gain a bonus to the check equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum of +1).

In addition, you gain proficiency in one of the following skills of your choice: Deception, Performance, or Persuasion.

Dreadful Strikes

At 3rd level, you augment your attacks with mind-scarring magic, drawn from the gloomy hollows of the Feywild. When you hit the target of your Hunter's Quarry with a weapon, you can deal an extra 1d4 psychic damage to the target, which can take this extra damage only once per turn.

This feature’s extra damage increases when you reach certain levels in this class: to 1d6 at 6th level and to 1d8 at 14th level.

Beguiling Twist

At 7th level, you learn how to manipulate mind-altering magic, channeling it from your allies toward others. You have advantage on saving throws against being charmed or frightened.

In addition, whenever you or a creature you can see within 120 feet of you succeeds on a saving throw against being charmed or frightened, you can use your reaction to force a different creature you can see within 120 feet of you to make a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC. If the save fails, the target is charmed or frightened by you (your choice) for 1 minute. The target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a successful save.

Fey Reinforcements

11th-level Fey Wanderer feature

The royal courts of the Feywild have blessed you with the assistance of fey beings: you know the summon fey spell and you can cast it without a material component. You can also cast it a number of times without expending a spell slot a number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier, and you regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest.

Whenever you start casting the spell, you can modify it so that it doesn't require concentration. If you do so, the spell’s duration becomes 1 minute for that casting.

Conclave Spells

You gain conclave spells at the ranger levels listed.

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 dim light or darkness, you are invisible to the target of your Hunter's Quarry if that that relies on sight to see you.

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 targets you with an attack, you can use your reaction to impose disadvantage on all attack rolls against you until the start of your next turn. This effect ends early if you take any damage from an attack before then.

Conclave Spells

You gain conclave spells at the ranger levels listed.

Planar Warrior

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

When you hit the target of your Hunter's Quarry with a weapon attack, you can use your bonus action to make all damage dealt by the attack become force damage, and the creature takes an extra 1d8 force damage from the attack. When you reach 11th level in this class, the extra damage increases to 2d8.

Portal Expert

At 3rd level, you gain the ability to magically sense the presence of a planar portal. You can expend a use of your Primeval Awareness feature to detect the presence of a portal to another plane, and if you do, you also learn what plane the portal leads to.

In addition, you don't suffer any negative effects as the result of interplanar travel, such as memory loss caused by leaving the Feywild.

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 start of your next turn.

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

Distant Strike

At 11th level, you gain the ability to pass between the planes in the blink of an eye. When you make an attack against the target of your Hunter's Quarry, you can teleport up to 10 feet before each attack to an unoccupied space you can see.

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 one damage type of that attack’s damage until the start of your next turn.

Interplanar Explorer

Starting at 15th level, you can expend a use of Primeval Awareness to cast plane shift and teleport without expending a spell slot and without preparing the spell. Once you cast either spell with this feature, you can’t cast that spell with it again until you finish a long rest.

Conclave Spells

You gain conclave spells at the ranger levels listed.

Favored Enemy

Starting at 3rd level, you have significant experience studying, tracking, hunting, and even talking to a certain type of enemy.

Choose a type of favored enemy: aberrations, beasts, celestials, constructs, dragons, elementals, fey, fiends, giants, monstrosities, oozes, plants, or undead. Alternatively, you can select two races of humanoid (such as gnolls and orcs) as favored prey.

When you roll dice for your Hunter's Quarry features against a favored enemy, you can use maximum damage number on the die, instead of rolling.

When you gain this feature, you also learn one language of your choice that is spoken by your favored enemies, if they speak one at all.

You choose one additional favored enemy, as well as an associated language, at 7th, 11th, and 15th level. As you gain levels, your choices should reflect the types of monsters you have encountered on your adventures.

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. The first time each turn you hit the target of your Hunter's Quarry with an attack, the creature takes an extra 1d8 damage, which can take this extra damage only once per turn.

Giant Killer. When a Large or larger creature 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. When you make a weapon attack, you can make another attack with the same weapon against a different creature you have not attacked this turn that is within 10 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.

Defensive Action. When you are hit by an attack roll, you can use your reaction to gain a bonus to your AC against that attack, potentially causing it to miss. The bonus equals your Wisdom modifier (minimum of +1).

Escape the Horde. You can take the Dash or Disengage action as a bonus action on your turn.

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

Multiattack

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

Volley. The second time each turn that you hit the target of your Hunter's Quarry with an attack, that creature takes an additional 1d8 damage from the attack.

Whirlwind Attack. When you reduce a creature to 0 hit points with an attack, you can make one additional weapon attack as part of that same action.

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 the saving throw, and only half damage if you fail.

Stand Against the Tide. You gain a +1 bonus to AC and saving throws for every hostile creature within 10 feet of you, to a maximum of +5.

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.

Conclave Spells

You gain conclave spells at the ranger levels listed.

Hunter's Sense

At 3rd level, you gain the ability to peer at a creature and magically discern how best to hurt it. As a bonus action, you can expend one use of your Primeval Awareness feature to 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. You also learn what magical effects, if any, are currently affecting the creature.

If the creature is hidden from divination magic, you sense that it has no damage immunities, resistances, or vulnerabilities, and that nothing magical is currently affecting it.

Slayer's Prey

Starting at 3rd level, whenever you deal damage to the target of your Hunter's Quarry while the creature is concentrating on a spell or the creature is under a spell effect, the creature takes an additional 1d8 damage.

Supernatural Defense

At 7th level, you have advantage on saving throws against spells, and you have resistance to damage from spells.

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.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum of once). You regain all expended uses of it when you finish a 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 Hunter's Quarry 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.

Conclave Spells

You gain conclave spells at the ranger levels listed.

Hunter's Eye

3rd-level Pathfinder feature

You can add 1d8 to one attack or damage roll you make against the target of your Hunter's Quarry. You can choose to use this feature before or after the roll, but before any effects of the roll are applied.

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

Natural Explorer

3rd-level Pathfinder feature

You are particularly familiar with one type of natural environment and are adept at traveling and surviving in such regions. Choose one type of favored terrain: arctic, coast, desert, forest, grassland, mountain, swamp, or the Underdark. You gain one of the following benefits associated with your favored terrain:

Situational Awareness

7th-level Pathfinder feature

You gain an uncanny sense of when things nearby aren’t as they should be, giving you an edge when you dodge away from danger.

You have advantage on saving throws against non-magical effects, such as traps and falling rocks. To gain this benefit, you can’t be incapacitated.

Additionally, you have advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on hearing or sight.

Always Ready

11th-level Pathfinder feature

Accustomed to the unpredictable changes of the wilderness, you have learned to use your magic to adapt to your circumstances. You can cast any ranger spell that you don't know or have prepared. The spell must be of a level for which you have spell slots.

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

Avoidance

15th-level Pathfinder feature

When you are subjected to an effect that allows you to make a 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.

Primeval Guardian Magic

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

Guardian Soul

Starting at 3rd level, when you hit the target of your Hunter's Quarry with an attack, you can forgo the damage bonus granted by your Hunter's Quarry feature to instead restore hit points to one creature you can see within 30 feet of the target equal to that same amount.

Piercing Thorns

Starting at 3rd level, the first time each turn that the target of your Hunter's Quarry hits you with an attack, the creature takes 1d4 piercing damage if you're not incapacitated. This feature’s extra damage increases when you reach certain levels in this class: to 1d6 at 6th level and to 1d8 at 14th level.

Guardian Aura

Starting at 7th level, you emanate a magical aura that fortifies yourself and your injured allies. As a bonus action on your turn, you can grant any number of creatures within 30 feet of you temporary hit points equal to 1d8 plus your Wisdom modifier. At 15th level, the temporary hit points gained increases to 2d8 plus your Wisdom modifier.

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

Blessings of the Wild

At 11th level, your connection to nature empowers you further. Once during each of your turns, when you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can expend a spell slot to deal extra damage. The extra damage is 1d8 cold, fire, or lightning damage (your choice) and the creature must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC or be knocked prone or blinded (your choice) until the end of your next turn.

Dampen Elements

At 15th level, you gain the endurance of the ancient forests. When you or a creature within 30 feet of you takes acid, cold, fire, lightning, or thunder damage, you can use your reaction to grant resistance to the creature against that instance of the damage.

Swarmkeeper Magic

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

Gathered Swarm

At 3rd level, a swarm of intangible nature spirits has bonded itself to you and can assist you in battle. Until you die, the swarm remains in your space, crawling on you or flying and skittering around you within your space. You determine its appearance, or you generate its appearance by rolling on the Swarm Appearance table. The swarm remains in your space, crawling on you or through your clothing, or flying and skittering immediately around you within your space.

Once on each of your turns, you can cause the swarm to assist you in one of the following ways, when you hit the target of your Hunter's Quarry with an attack:

• The attack target takes an extra 1d6 piercing damage from the swarm.
• The attack target must make a Strength saving throw against your Spell Save DC or be moved by the swarm up to 15 feet horizontally in a direction of your choice.
• You are moved by the swarm 10 feet horizontally in a direction of your choice.

Additionally, you learn the mage hand cantrip if you don’t already know it. When you cast it, the hand takes the form of swarming nature spirits.

Writhing Tide

At 7th level, you can condense part of your swarm into a focused mass that lifts or sweeps you along. As a bonus action, you gain a flying speed of 10 feet and can hover. This effect lasts for 1 minute or until you are incapacitated.

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

Mighty Swarm

At 11th level, your Gathered Swarm grows mightier in the following ways:

• The damage of Gathered Swarm increases to 1d8.
• If a creature fails its saving throw against being moved by your Gathered Swarm, you can cause the swarm to knock the creature prone.
• The distance the Gathered Swarm can move you increases by 10 feet, it can also move you vertically, and when you are moved by the Gathered Swarm, it gives you half cover until the start of your next turn.

Swarming Dispersal

At 15th level, you can discorporate into your swarm, avoiding danger. When you take damage, you can use your reaction to give yourself resistance to that damage. Then, you vanish into your swarm and teleport into an unoccupied space that you can see within 30 feet of you, where you reappear with the swarm.

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

Goals & Overview

A lot of things homebrew Rangers I see attempt to change too much, or make features that are too complicated. This is meant to take the ideas we've seen before in previous UAs or D&D editions and make a simple, familiar, but powerful, Ranger.

A central theme of this Ranger is "Hunter's Quarry," feature, which functions similar to Hunter's Mark, with subclasses that tweak it in unique ways.

Some inspirations:

• UA "Modiying Classes"
• UA "The Ranger, Revised"
• Mike Mearls Revised Ranger
• UA "Class Feature Variants"

As well as the Dungeons & Dragons 3.5E Ranger and the Pathfinder 1E and 2E Ranger.

Significant Changes:

• Canny Explorer replaced with Expertise
• Tireless buffed, move to level 1
• Hunter's Quarry at 2 based on 4E Ranger
• Spells Prepared instead of Spells Known
• Ritual Casting
• Roving Explorer increased by 5 feet
• Primeval Awareness based UA: Ranger Revised
• Nature's Veil and Vanish removed
• New feature "Ambuscade" at 10
• CON proficiency at level 14
• Feral Senses buffed
• Foe Slayer buffed

Subclass Changes:

• All subclasses reworked to function better with new "Hunter's Quarry" feature
• All subclass spells added or changed

New Subclasses: