Bounty Hunter

After spending years in the wilds, you've returned to the bustling cities, filled with all manner of thieves, murderers, traitors and criminals. As a bounty hunter, you've decided to put your skills to good use, tracking down and eliminating deranged criminals that would put the citizens of these cities in harms way.

Animal Companion

Beginning at 3rd level, you form a deep bond with a beast. With 8 hours of work and the expenditure of 25 gp worth of rare herbs and fine food, you call forth an animal from the wilderness to serve as your faithful companion. Choose one of the following types of beast; Avian, Brute, Predator, or Stalker. The statistics for these companions are shown in Appendix A: Animal Companions at the end of this document.

You can only ever have one animal companion at a time. Your animal companion makes death saves in the same way you do. If you companion dies, you are able to return them to life by performing a 1 hour ritual and expending 25 gp worth of herbs per hunter level.

Companion's Bond

Your animal companion gains a wide variety of features.

• Your companion obeys your commands as best it can. It acts on your initiative, taking its turn immediately after yours, and you determine its actions, decisions, attitudes, and so on (no action required by you). If you are incapacitated or absent, your companion acts on its own.
• Your animal companion gains proficiency in two skills of your choice. It also becomes proficient with all saving throws.
• For each level you gain after 3rd, your animal companion gains an additional hit die and increases its hit points accordingly. Your companion is able to expend hit die during a short rest in the same way you do.
• Whenever you gain the Ability Score Improvement class feature, your companion’s abilities also improve. Your companion can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or it can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, your companion can’t increase an ability score above 20 using this feature.

Claws of Thunder

At 7th level, your animal companion's attacks are considered magical for the sake of overcoming resistance.

Companion's Sacrifice

Also at 7th level, if you would be hit by an attack while your animal companion is within 5 feet of you, it can use its reaction to force the attack to target them instead.

Beastial Aspect

At 11th level, your animal companion has had a great influence on you, making you somewhat more beastial in nature. You gain one of the following features:

Pact Tactics You have advantage on attack rolls against a creature if at least one of your allies is within 5 feet of the creature and that ally isn't incapacitated.

Charge If you move at least 20 feet in a straight line and then make a melee attack on the same turn, then that target must make a Strength Save against your Trick DC or be knocked prone.

Rampage When you reduce a creature to 0 hit points with a weapon attack on your turn, you can use your bonus action to move up to half your speed and make an additional attack with the same weapon.

Flyby You do not provoke attacks of opportunity when you leave an opponents reach.

Companion's Resolve

At 15th level, your animal companion's loyalty and resolve allow it to keep fighting, even when its body fails it. When your animal companion is reduced to 0 hit points, it can use its reaction to let out a mighty roar, gaining a number of temporary hit points equal to twice your hunter level.

Once you companion does this, it cannot do so again until it finishes a long rest.

Umbral Sight

At 3rd level, you've become used to living in the dark. You gain darkvision out to a range of 60 feet. If you already have darkvision, its range increases by 30 feet.

You are also adept at evading creatures that rely on darkvision. While in darkness, you are invisible to any creature that relies on darkvision to see you in that darkness.

Dread Ambusher

Also at 3rd level, you master the art of the ambush. You can give yourself a bonus to your initiative rolls equal to your Proficiency bonus.

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.

Iron Mind

By 7th level, you have honed your ability to resist the mind-altering powers of your prey. You gain proficiency in Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma saving throws (your choice).

Eye for an Eye

Also at 7th level, you've become adept at determining how perceptive a foe is at a glance. You gain the following addition to your Study Prey feature:

• You learn the creature's passive perception, as well as what senses it has.

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, taking advantage of the shadows around you. Whenever a creature makes an attack roll against you and doesn't have advantage on the roll, you can use your reaction to impose disadvantage on it. You must use this feature before you know the outcome of the attack roll.

Draconic Strike

Starting at 3rd level, your study of dragon's has granted you the knowledge on how to create a substance to imbue your arrows with minor elemental powers. Once a turn when you hit the target of your Hunter's Prey, you can choose to deal an extra 1d6 damage. You choose if this damage is acid, cold, fire, lightning, or poison.

Pierce the Sky

Also at 3rd level, you excel at fighting foes that rely on their ability to fly. When you hit a creature, you can force them to make a Strength Saving throw against your Trick DC. On a failure, they fall prone, and cannot use their fly speed until the end of their next turn if they have one.

You can use this ability a number of times equal to your Strength or Dexterity modifier, whichever is higher. You regain all uses when you finish a long rest.

Elemental Guard

At 7th level, you've trained yourself to withstand the harsh elemental powers of a dragon. When you take acid, cold, fire, lightning, poison, or thunder damage, you can use your reaction to give yourself resistance to that damage type until the end of your next turn.

Show no Fear

Also at 7th level, you show no fear in the face of danger, inspiring those around you as well. You have advantage on saving throws against the frightened effect. Additionally, when you succeed on a saving throw against the frightened effect, all friendly creatures within 30 feet of you automatically succeed on their saving throws as well.

Legendary Instincts

At 11th level, you've learned to make the speed of a dragon. When a creature other than you ends their turn, you can use your reaction to move up to your speed and to make a single attack.

Draconic Resistance

At 15th level, your resolve allows you to succeed when you need it most. When you fail a saving throw, you can choose to succeed instead.

Once you use this ability, you cannot do so again until you finish a long rest.

Blood Vial

At 3rd level, you've developed an alchemical concoction made of blood and other ingredients that helps to reinvigorate you. As an action, you can inject yourself with your blood vial. When you do, you can expend a number of hit die equal to your Constitution modifier.

Once you use this feature, you cannot do so again until you finish a long rest.

Silver Bullet

Also at 3rd level, you've bathed your weapons in holy water. Due to this, your attacks are considered both silver and magical for the sake of overcoming resistances.

Additionally, once a turn when you hit the target of your Hunter's Prey, you can choose to deal an extra 1d6 radiant damage.

Curse Resistance

At 7th level, you've trained your body to resist the curses and hexes that foul creatures use. You gain resistance to necrotic damage, and you have advantage on saving throws against curses and diseases.

Supernatural Sense

Also at 7th level, you've become proficient at identifying supernatural creatures. You gain the following addition to your Study Prey feature:

• You learn if the creature has the Shapechanger feature.

Stake to the Heart

At 11th level, you can exploit the weaknesses of your foes to render them helpless. When you hit a creature with an attack, you can force them to make a Constitution saving throw. On a failure, they are paralyzed for 1 minute, or until they take damage.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Strength or Dexterity modifier, whichever is higher (minimum of 1). You regain all uses when you finish a long rest.

Stay Down:

At 15th level, you make sure that the monsters that you kill stay dead. Creatures that you kill cannot be raised as undead. Additionally when a creature you hit with an attack within the last round that has the ability to reform (Such as a devil or a vampire) falls to 0 hit points, they lose this feature and are completely destroyed.

Magical Residue

At 3rd level, your weapon hums with magical essence from the mages you've cut down. Once a turn when you hit the target of your Hunter's Prey, you can choose to deal an extra 1d8 force damage.

Arcane Disruption

Also at 3rd level, your knowledge of the arcane allows you to strike your foes in a way that disrupts the flow of magic within them. When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can force them to make an Intelligence Saving Throw. On a failure, they have disadvantage on spell attack rolls, and creatures have advantage on saving throws from spells they cast until the start of your next turn.

You can use this ability a number of times equal to your Strength or Dexterity modifier, whichever is higher. You regain all uses when you finish a long rest.

Spell Resistance

At 7th level, you've built up a resistance to the effects of magic. 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 the saving throw, and only half damage if you fail.

Arcane Sense

Also at 7th level, you've learned how to spot traces of magic uses on people. You gain the following addition to your Study Prey feature:

• You learn if the creature has the Spellcasting or Innate Spellcasting feature.

Spellbane

At 11th level, your instincts allow you to thwart magic users before they have a chance to finish their incantations. When you see a creature attempting to cast a spell or teleport, you can use your reaction to make an attack against them. On a hit, the target suffers the attack's normal effects, and must make an Intelligence saving throw. On a failure, the spell or teleportation automatically fails, and the spell slot is lost.

Mage's Folly

At 15th level, you're ability to disrupt the flow of magic in mages has reached its peak, allowing you to restrict their spellcasting. When you successfully use your Spellbane feature to cancel a spell, the target loses the ability to cast that spell for 24 hours, or until you use this feature again.

Techniques

Arrow Trap

You've gained the ability to set up a tripwire trap that fires a volley of arrows at a creature that triggers the trap. You can spend a minute setting up this trap, creating a tripwire and stringing up arrows. The trap cannot be set up in large open areas, as it requires objects to set up the tripwire and anchor the arrows too, such as a doorway, the walls of a hallway, or a pair of trees.

As a creature approaches the trap, they can make a Wisdom (Perception) check against your Trick DC to notice the trap. When a creature triggers the trap, all of the arrows are released. Make three attacks against the creature, using your normal statistics. These attacks cannot gain advantage or disadvantage, and you do not add any modifiers to the damage.

The number of attacks you make against the creature increases as you level up. At 6th level, you make four attacks. At 14th level, you make five attacks.

Elemental Mine

You've gained the ability to create a small trap that detonates into an elemental explosion when stepped on. The trap is made up of a pressure plate and a pair of containers with some concoction that are mixed when the plate is stepped on, causing an explosion. You can spend a minute setting up this trap, as it takes time to carefully arm the trap. When you do, choose a damage type: acid, cold, fire, or lightning.

As a creature approaches the trap, they can make a Wisdom (Perception) check against your Trick DC to notice the trap. When a creature triggers the trap, the trap explodes. All creatures within a 10ft radius must make a Dexterity saving throw. Creatures in the area take 3d6 of the chosen damage type on a fail, or half as much on a success.

This traps damage becomes more powerful as you level up. The trap's damage increases by 2d6 at 6th and 14th level, and it's radius increases by 10ft at 10th and 18th level.

Rope Snare

Sometimes the simplest trap is the most effective. You can spend a minute to set up a rope snare to create a circle with a 5-foot radius on a flat surface. As a creature approaches the trap, they can make a Wisdom (Perception) check against your Trick DC to notice the trap. When a creature steps within the radius, they must make a Dexterity saving throw against your Trick DC. On a failure, they are hung upside down 3 feet in the air, and are considered restrained.

The trapped creature can use an action to repeat the saving throw at disadvantage, freeing themselves on a success. Alternatively, another creature can use an action to make a sleight of hand check against your Trick DC to release them.

The Avian

Avian companions are typically birds of prey, such as hawks or owls. However, on rare, occasions, some hunters have been known to use more unconventional companions, such as bats. These companions are quick an nimble, and excel at using their flight to their advantage.

The Brute

Brutish companions are large beasts that can take a beating. They are strong and hardy, and will not falter to even the mightiest foes. Classic brute companions include things such as bears and boars.

The Predator

Predator companions make up some of the most fearsome beats, which make for excellent hunters in their own rights. This includes beasts such as lions and wolves. Predator companions are strong and deadly, able to quickly dismember any foe that gets too close.

The Stalker

Stalker companions are quiet assassins, skulking through the tall grass to sneak up on their prey. Stalker companions mainly include feline beasts, such as leopards and panthers. These companions specialize in stealth, and make the perfect companion for a quiet assassin.