Archetype Spells

You gain archetype spells at the ranger levels listed.

Favored Enemy

Beginning at 3rd level, you have have learned how to tap into the collective knowledge of the Hunter Conclave, in order to predict the abilities, behaviors, and characteristics of different types of creatures.

When you finish a long rest, choose a type of creature as your favored enemy (e.g. aberrations, beasts, humanoids, or undead).

You have advantage on any Wisdom check targeting your favored enemies ‐ such as tracking, detecting, or analyzing and predicting their typical tactics and behavior — or Intelligence checks to recall lore about them.

Foe Slayer

At 3rd level, you learn specialized tactics to bring down your current prey.

Your Eye for Weakness feature gains the following additional condition for applying extra damage:

• The target belongs to the type you chose as your Favored Enemy.

Hunter Magic

Starting at 3rd level, you learn additional spells based on your selected Hunter features as you gain levels

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. When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can add a Focus Die to the damage if it’s below its hit point maximum. You can deal this extra damage only once per turn.

Giant Killer. When a Large or larger creature within 5 feet of you 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. Once on each of your turns when you make a weapon attack, you can make another attack with the same weapon against a different creature that is within 5 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.

Escape the Horde. Opportunity attacks against you are made with disadvantage.

Multiattack Defense. When a creature hits you with an attack, you gain a +4 bonus to AC against all subsequent attacks made by that creature for the rest of the turn.

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

Multiattack

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

Volley. You can use your action to make a ranged attack against any number of creatures within 10 feet of a point you can see within your weapon’s range. You must have ammunition for each target, as normal, and you make a separate attack roll for each target.

Whirlwind Attack. You can use your action to make a melee attack against any number of creatures within 5 feet of you, with a separate attack roll for each target.

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. When a hostile creature misses you with a melee attack, you can use your reaction to force that creature to repeat the same attack against another creature (other than itself) of your choice.

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.

Hunter Spells

You gain the following spells at the listed ranger levels. The spells are considered ranger spells for you. You always have them prepared, and they don't count against your number of spells prepared.

Hunter's Quarry

3rd level: You have mastered the art of pursuit. As a bonus action, you can attempt to mark a creature as your quarry. The creature makes a WIS save against your spell save DC. The target gains additional modifiers to its WIS save based on how well you know the target and what physical trace of the target you have on hand:

If the creature succeeds on its save, it gains a cumulative +2 bonus to any further saves it makes against this feature for the next week, or until it fails its save.

If the creature fails on its save, it is marked as your quarry for the next 2 days or until you use this feature on a different creature.

You may add your focus die to any ability check made to track, perceive, or otherwise find your quarry, if you aren't already receiving such a bonus. Additionally, you gain the following trigger for the additional damage of your Eye for Weakness Feature:

• The target is marked as your quarry.

Additionally, you become aware of the general direction towards your quarry every 12 hours (N, NE, E, SE, S, SW, W, NW) while it is on the same plane of existence, but not within 1 mile of you.

At 7th level, you become aware of its direction every hour. At 11th level, you become aware of its direction and current plane of existence every turn.

You can use this feature once, and regain the ability to do so when you finish a short or long rest.

Slayer's Counter

7th level: Your heightened instincts have led to great defensive capabilities. You gain proficiency in Wisdom saving throws. Additionally, when a creature marked as your quarry forces you to make a saving throw, you can use your reaction after rolling to add your focus die to the roll. You can do so after seeing the roll, but before you know the outcome.

Master of the Hunt

11th level: The duration for your Hunter's Quarry feature increases to 7 days. Also, when you choose a quarry, the next ranger spell you cast that targets only that creature doesn't cost a spell slot.

Executioner

15th level: Your focus in combat has become legendary. You gain a bonus to all weapon attack and damage rolls equal to your Wisdom modifier.

Adaptability

When you complete a long rest, you may choose to switch one of your feature choices or Hunter Spells with another from the same feature. At 10th level, you may switch two feature choices or Hunter Spells at the end of a long rest.

Hunter Magic

Starting at 3rd level, you can prepare two more spells when you complete a long rest, in addition to the spells prepared through the Spellcasting Feature. This number of additional spells increases to 4 at 5th level, 6 at 9th level, 8 at 13th level, and 8 at 17th level.

Hunter’s Prey

At 3rd level, you gain one of the following feature choices:

Hide Cleaver. If you deal more than 10 damage in a single attack on a creature with natural armor, you may choose to reduce the creature's Armor Class by 1, to a minimum of 10 + the creature’s Dexterity modifier. Every 5 hit points the creature heals removes 1 point of reduction to its Armor Class from this feature.

Bloodied Enemy Slayer. Your Eye for Weakness feature gains an additional condition:

• The target has less than half their normal maximum hit points.

Horde Breaker. If a creature you hit with an attack is within 5 feet of one of its allies, and your attack roll would hit the adjacent creature had you targeted it, you may choose to deal damage to the adjacent creature equal to one roll of your Focus Die. This additional damage does not count as an attack for the purposes of Eye for Weakness.

Giant Killer. If a Large or larger creature within 5 feet of you 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.

Mobility Exploiter. Your Eye for Weakness feature gains an additional condition:

• The target moved more than 5 feet on its last turn.

Favored Enemy

During your time in the wild, you have encountered many enemies, and have gained the skills to track and hunt them all.

At 3rd level, you choose one of these creature types to become your favored enemy: aberrations, beasts, celestials, constructs, dragons, elementals, fey, giants, monstrosities, oozes, plants, or undead. You add an additional Focus Dice to Wisdom (Survival) checks to track your favored enemies and Intelligence checks to recall information about them, in addition to the die granted by your Ranger Focus feature.

Defensive Tactics

At 7th level, you gain one of the following feature choices:

Escape the Horde. Opportunity attacks against you are made at disadvantage.

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 take half damage if you fail.

Steel Will. You have advantage on saves against being frightened, charmed, or stunned, and always make saves against these effects at the start of your turn, rather than the end.

Multiattack Defense. When a creature hits you with an attack, you gain a +4 bonus to AC against all subsequent attacks made by that creature for the rest of the turn.

Martial Prowess

At 11th level, you gain one of the following feature choices:

Swiftness. If you hit the same enemy with two attacks on your turn, you may make an additional attack against it as part of the Attack action.

Power Strike. When you take the Attack action, you may choose to forgo additional attacks granted by Extra Attack and other features. If you do so, you may roll three times the weapon's normal damage die if you hit.

Volley. You can now use the Volley action.

Volley: Make a ranged attack against any number of creatures within 10 feet of a point you can see within your weapon’s range. You must have ammunition for each target, as normal, and you make a separate attack roll for each target.

Whirlwind. You can now use the Whirlwind action.

Whirlwind: Make a melee attack against all creatures within your weapon’s range. As part of this action, you may move up to 10 feet in any direction without provoking attacks of opportunity.

Superior Hunter’s Defense

At 15th level, you gain one of the following feature choices:

Stand Against the Tide. When a hostile creature misses you with a melee attack, you can use your reaction to force that creature to reroll the same attack against another creature (other than itself) of your choice.

Uncanny Dodge. When an attacker that you can see hits you with an attack, you can use your reaction to half the attack’s damage against you.

Magic-User’s Nemesis. When you see a creature casting a spell within 30 feet of you, you can use your reaction to make a check with your spellcasting ability modifier against that creature's spell save DC. On a success, the spell fails and the spell slot is consumed.

Slayer spells

Slayer spells

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.

Archetype Spells

You gain archetype spells at the ranger levels listed.

Favored Enemy

Beginning at 3rd level, you have have learned how to tap into the collective knowledge of the Hunter Conclave, in order to predict the abilities, behaviors, and characteristics of different types of creatures.

When you finish a long rest, choose a type of creature as your favored enemy (e.g. aberrations, beasts, humanoids, or undead).

You have advantage on any Wisdom check targeting your favored enemies ‐ such as tracking, detecting, or analyzing and predicting their typical tactics and behavior — or Intelligence checks to recall lore about them.

In addition, your Eye for Weakness feature gains the following additional condition for applying extra damage:

• The target belongs to the type you chose as your Favored Enemy.

Hunting Tactics

Starting at 3rd level, you learn specialized tactics to bring down your current prey.

Choose one of the Hunting Tactics listed below. You can choose an additional Hunting Tactic when you reach 7th, 11th, and 15th level in this class. You must be of a certain ranger level (or higher) in order to choose more advanced Hunting Tactics.

Whenever you finsish a long rest, you can replace one of your current Hunting Tactics with another one from the list and available for your current ranger level. Starting at 11th level, you can replace two of your current Hunting Tactics whenever you finish a long rest.

Hunting Tactics

3th level Tactics

Avoid the Basilisk's Gaze. When you attack a creature you can't see, your inability to see it doesn't impose disadvantage on your attack rolls against it.

Between Hammer and Anvil. Creatures don't gain advantage on attack rolls against you from special features such as Pack Tactics, or when using the Help action or the optional flanking rule.

Clip the Wings. When you hit a flying creature with an attack, you can choose to deal no damage and instead force the creature to succeed on a Strength saving throw or be knocked prone. The DC equals 10 or half the damage you would have dealt, whichever number is higher. (see Xanathar's Guide to Everything p. 77)

In the Belly of the Beast. While you are swallowed or engulfed by a creature, you have resistance to the damage it deals to you. In addition, your attacks against it have advantage and deal double damage.

The Bigger They Come. You can add your Focus Die on your Strength (Athletics) checks when you try to shove a creature, and you can try to shove a creature even if it is more than one size larger than you.

Walk the Spider's Web. You are considered invisible towards Blindsight and Tremorsense.

7th level Tactics

Dodge the Ogre's Club. When a Large or larger creature you can see makes a weapon attack against you, you can impose disadvantage on the attack. You can't use this feature again until the beginning of your next turn.

Resist the Flayer's Mind. When a creature you can see uses an ability that forces you to make an Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma saving throw, you can add your Focus Die to the roll.

Wade in the Water. Your movement doesn't provoke opportunity attacks. In addition, once per turn, when a creature hits or misses you with an attack, you can move 5 feet immediately after the attack.

11th level Tactics

Poke the Beholder's Eye. When a creature you can see forces you to make a saving throw, you can use your reaction to make a single weapon attack against that creature. You make this attack immediately before making the saving throw. If your attack hits, you have advantage on the save, in addition to the attack’s normal effects.

Punish the Lumbering Hulk. When a Large or larger creature you can see, hits or misses you with an attack, you can use your reaction to make a single weapon attack against that creature immediately after its attack.

Turn the Tide. When a creature you can see misses you with an attack, you can use your reaction to force that creature to repeat the same attack against another creature (other than itself) of your choice within its reach. You regain your reaction if that attack misses.

15th level Tactics

Between the Hydra's Heads. When a creature hits you with an attack, you gain a +4 bonus to AC against all subsequent attacks made by that creature for the rest of the turn.

In the Eye of the Storm. Whenever a creature hits you with an attack, you gain a +2 bonus to your AC at the end of the creature's turn. This bonus lasts until the beginning of your next turn.

Under the Dragon's Breath. When a creature you can see uses an ability that forces 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.

Hunter Magic

Starting at 3rd level, you learn additional spells from this subclass as well as based on your selected Hunter features as you gain levels. Once you gain access to a conclave spell, you always have it prepared, and it doesn't count against the number of spells you can prepare each day. If you gain a spell that doesn't appear on the ranger spell list, the spell is nonetheless a ranger spell for you.

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. Your Eye for Weakness feature gains the following additional condition for applying extra damage:

• The target is below their Maximum hitpoints.

Giant Killer. You see the weak points of any giant creature when they attack you. At the start of your turn, You add a focus die on your first attack roll against a giant creature that attacked you before your turn. Your Eye for Weakness feature gains the following additional condition for applying extra damage:

• The target is a Large or larger creature.

Horde Breaker. Once on each of your turns when you make a weapon attack, you can make another attack with the same weapon against a different creature that is within 5 feet of the original target and within range of your weapon. You consider the same type of creatures as the same target as to not counter the effect of the first condition on EfW.

Hunted Prey you can focus your ire on one foe, increasing the harm you inflict on it. As a bonus action, you designate one creature you can see within 60 feet of you as the target of this feature. Your Eye for Weakness feature gains the following additional condition for applying extra damage:

• The target of your Hunted Prey

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

Archetype Spells

You gain archetype spells at the ranger levels listed.

Favored Enemy

Beginning at 3rd level, you have have learned how to tap into the collective knowledge of the Hunter Conclave, in order to predict the abilities, behaviors, and characteristics of different types of creatures.

Choose a type of creature as your favored enemy (e.g. aberrations, beasts, humanoids, or undead). Whenever you finish a long rest, you can replace your current favored enemy with another type of creatures.

You have advantage on any Wisdom check targeting your favored enemies ‐ such as tracking, detecting, or analyzing and predicting their typical tactics and behavior — or Intelligence checks to recall lore about them.

Foe Slayer

At 3rd level, you learn specialized tactics to bring down your current prey.

Your Eye for Weakness feature gains the following additional condition for applying extra damage:

• The target belongs to the type you chose as your Favored Enemy.