CR Hunter by u/Akaineth
Emulating the Hunter archetype means accepting your place as a bulwark between civilization and the terrors of the wilderness. As you walk the Hunter's path, you learn specialized techniques for fighting the threats you face, from rampaging ogres and hordes of orcs to towering giants and terrifying dragons.
Slayer spells
| Ranger Level | Spells |
|---|---|
| 3rd | protection from evil and good, heroism |
| 5th | earthbind, lesser restoration |
| 9th | slow, elemental weapon |
| 13th | elemental bane, locate creature |
| 17th | hold monster, greater restoration |
Favored Enemy
At 3rd level, you have significant experience studying, hunting, and fighting 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 enemies. You can add your Focus die to any Wisdom check related to your favored enemy.
You can change one of your favored enemies by reading book about them or meditating on previous encounters with them for at least 1 hour after a long rest.
Focused Prey
You know how to read the behavior and movement of a creature. As a Action you can focus on a creature within 120 feet that you can see, marking it as your focused prey. If the target is the same type as your favored enemy, you can use this feature as a Bonus Action instead of an Action.
Your Eye for Weakness feature gains the following additional condition for applying extra damage:
- the target is your focused prey
You loose your focus after one hour, when you're knocked unconscious or when you mark another creature as you focused prey. Once you've used this feature a number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum of 1) you can't do so again until you complete a long rest.
Predictable moves
You know your favored enemies and what tricks they use. You can add your Focus Die to saving throws against abilities of your favored enemy.
Cornered prey
At 11th level, you've learned to react to your target's every move. As a reaction when your focused prey ends its turn, you can make one attack against it.
Study your Prey
Starting at 15th level, After you mark a creature as your focused prey, you can choose to change your favored enemy to the same type as your new prey. Furthermore, You can keep your focused prey for 24 hours instead of 1.