Dungeons & Dragons 5e Class (KS): Ranger
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Ranger
hit dice:
1d10
hit points at 1st level:
10 + Constitution Modifier
hit points at higher levels:
1d10 + Constitution Modifier per level
armor proficiencies:
Light armor, Medium armor, Shields
weapon proficiencies:
Simple weapons, Martial weapons
tools:
Choose one from Artisan tool, Herbalism kit, Navigator's tool, Trapper's kit, or Vehicles
saving throws:
Strength or Dexterity and Wisdom or Intelligence depend on planned builds
skills:
Choose three from Acrobatics, Animal Handling,
Athletics, Insight, Investigation, Nature, Perception,
Stealth, and Survival
starting 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
Fighting Style:
Archery, Blind Fighting, Cavalary, Close Quarter Shooter, Defense, Druidic Warrior, Dueling, Interception, Mariner, Thrown-Weapon Fighting, Two-Weapon fighting, Unarmed Fighting Style
Spellcasting:
Spell Slots The Ranger table shows how many spell slots you have to cast your spells of 1st level and higher. To cast one of these spells, you must expend a slot of the spell’s level or higher. You regain all expended spell slots when youfinish a long rest.
For example, if you know the 1st-level spell animalfriendship and have a 1st level and a 2nd-level spell slotavailable, you can cast animal friendship using either slot.
Spells Known of 1st Level and Higher You know two 1st-level spells of your choice from theranger spell list.
The Spells Known column of the Ranger table shows when you learn more ranger spells of your choice. Each of these spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots. For instance, when you reach 5th level in this class, you learn one new spell of 1st or 2nd level.
Additionally, when you gain a level in this class, youcan choose one of the ranger spells you know and replace it with another spell from the ranger spell list, which also must be of a level for which you have spell slots.
Spellcasting Ability Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for your rangerspells, since your magic draws on your 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 fora ranger spell you cast and when making an attack roll with one.
Spell save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + yourWisdom modifier.
Spell attack modifier = your proficiency bonus + yourWisdom modifier.
Spellcasting Focus You can use a druidic focus as a spellcasting focus for your ranger spells. A druidic focus might be a sprig of mistletoe or holly, a wand or rod made of yew or another special wood, a staff drawn whole from a livingtree, or an object incorporating feathers, fur, bones, and teeth from sacred animals.Spell attack modifier = your proficiency bonus + yourWisdom modifier.
class features:
Natural Explorer
1st-Level Ranger Feature
Starting at 1st level, you are a master of navigating and surviving in the natural environment. While traveling for an hour or more, you gain the following benefits:
Scout
1st-Level Ranger Feature
Starting at 1st level, if you are proficient in the Survival skill,
your proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability check you
make that uses the Survival skill.
In addition, you can choose a tool or one skill from the
following that you are already proficient in: Animal Handling,
Investigation, Nature, or Perception. Your proficiency bonus
is doubled for any ability check you make that uses the
selected tool or skill.
Hunter's Eye
2nd-Level Ranger Feature
At 2nd level, your vision has sharpened from traveling in
variable amounts of light. You gain one of the following
features of your choice:
Nature's Blessing
2nd-Level Ranger Feature
At 2nd level, you can choose to either retain the Spellcasting feature or forgo spells and choose the Non-spellcasting feature which includes compensatory abilities.
These features are: Animal Empathy, Nature's Stamina, Evasion, Ambush Master
Perceptive eye
3rd-Level Ranger Feature
At 3rd level, your keen eyes allow you to ignore effects that
compromise vision. You don't suffer penalties on your
Wisdom (Perception) checks when you are moving at a fast
pace. Additionally, you can track creatures while traveling at a
fast pace.
Alacrity
6th-Level Ranger Feature
Starting at 6th level, you possess innate instincts that enable
you to react with swift and decisive action. You add your
proficiency bonus to your Initiative checks.
In addition, you have advantage on attack rolls against
creatures that have not yet acted.
Extra Attack
5-Level Monk Feature
Beginning at 5th Level, you can Attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack Action on Your Turn.
Land's Stride
8th-Level Ranger Feature
Starting at 8th level, moving through nonmagical difficult
terrain costs you no extra movement. You can also pass
through nonmagical plants without being slowed by them
and without taking damage from them if they have thorns,
spines, or a similar hazard.
In addition, you have advantage on saving throws against
plants that are magically created or manipulated to impede
movement, such as those created by the Entangle spell
Hide in Plain Sight
10th-Level Ranger Feature
Starting at 10th level, using your Wisdom (Survival) skill to
hide, you can spend 1 minute using mud, dirt, plants, soot,
animal excrement, and other naturally occurring materials to
camouflage yourself.
Once you are camouflaged this way, you can try to hide
yourself by pressing against a solid surface. You gain a + 10
bonus to your Wisdom (Survival) checks to avoid being
detected as long as you remain there without moving or
taking actions. Once you move or take an action or a reaction,
you must camouflage yourself again to gain this benefit.
Cover of Darkness
14th-Level Ranger Feature
Beginning at 14th level, you have learned how to evade your
pursuers. You can use the Hide action as a bonus action on
your turn and you cannot be tracked by nonmagical means,
unless you choose to leave a trail.
In addition, your movement speed increases 10 feet. The
increase also applies to your climbing and swimming speed.
Feral Senses
18th-Level Ranger Feature
At 18th level, you gain preternatural senses that help you fight
creatures you can’t see. When you attack a creature you can’t
see, your inability to see it doesn’t impose disadvantage on
your attack rolls against it.
Also, if you are able to hear or see, you are also aware of
the location of any invisible or hidden creatures within 30
feet of you.
Apex Predator
20th-Level Ranger Feature
At 20th level, rangers strike first and strike hard. When you
roll initiative, you gain a special turn that takes place before
other creatures can act. On this turn, you can use your action
to take either the Attack, Dash, or Hide action. If more than
one creature in an encounter has this feature, they all act first
in order of initiative, then the regular initiative order begins.
If you would normally be surprised at the start of an
encounter, you are not surprised but you do not gain this
extra turn.
In addition, you have become an unparalleled hunter. Once
on each of your turns you can add your Wisdom modifier
(minimum 1) to the attack roll or the damage roll. You can
choose to use this feature before or after the roll, but before
any effects of the roll are applied.
Non-Caster Nature's Blessing:
Animal Empathy
2nd-Level Ranger Feature
At 2nd level, using your action, you make a successful
Wisdom (Animal Handling) check to communicate with
animals and convince them that your intentions are harmless.
You learn its emotional state, whether it is affected by magic
of any sort, its short term needs (such as food or safety), and
actions you can take (if any) to persuade it to not attack.
The beast must be within 30 feet of you and within line of
sight. If the beast's Intelligence is 4 or greater, you are
ignored. You have advantage on your check when attempting
to communicate with domesticated beasts. You can affect a
group of similar beasts. The number of beasts influenced is
equal to half of your ranger level, rounded down.
You cannot use this ability against a creature that you have
attacked within the past 10 minutes. The effect lasts for 24
hours or ends earlier if you or your allies attempt to cause it
any harm.
Evasion
9th-Level Ranger Feature
Beginning at 9th level, you can nimbly dodge out of the way of
certain area effects, such as a red dragon’s fiery breath or a
lightning bolt spell. When you are subjected to an effect that
allows you to make Dexterity saving throw for only half
damage, you instead take no damage if you succeed on the
saving throw. You take only half damage if you fail.
Nature's Stamina
13th-Level Ranger Feature
Your encounters with aberrations, beasts, celestials, dragons,
elementals, fey, fiends, giants, monstrosities, oozes, plants,
and undead have strengthened your physical and mental
fortitude. At 13th level, you gain proficiency in either
Constitution or Wisdom saving throws, your choice
Ambush Master
17th-Level Ranger Feature
Starting at 17th level, you excel at leading ambushes. You can
use a bonus action on your turn in the first round of the
combat to grant each ally within 30 feet of you a bonus to
their initiative roll that lasts until the end of their next turn.
The bonus is equal to your Wisdom modifier, minimum 1.
Each ally also receives a + 10 increase to their speed that
lasts until the beginning of the their next turn
Natural Explorer
- Difficult terrain does not slow your group’s travel.
- If you are traveling alone, you can move stealthily at a normal pace.
- Even when you are engaged in another activity while traveling (such as foraging, navigating, or tracking), you remain alert to danger.
Scout
Hunter's Eye
- You gain darkvision up to 60 feet. If you already have darkvision, the distance increases by 30 feet.
- You don't suffer penalties from Sunlight Sensitivity.
Nature's Blessing
Perceptive Eye
Alacrity
Extra Attack
Land's Stride
Hide in Plain Sight
Cover of Darkness
Feral Senses
Apex Predator
Animal Empathy
Evasion
Nature's Stamina
Ambush Master
subclass options:
Spell Casting: Deepwood Sniper (Caster), Beast Master (Caster), Bounty Hunter (caster), Deep Stalker (caster), Ghost Ranger (caster), Hunter (caster), Stormchaser (Caster)
Non spell Casting:Beast Master (non caster), Bounty Hunter (non caster), Psi-Stalker (non caster)|Fletcher (non-caster)
| Level | Proficiency Bonus | Features | Spells Known | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | +2 | Natural Explorer, Scout NC (Animal Empathy) | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2nd | +2 | Fighting Style, Hunter's Eye, Nature's Blessing | 2 | 2 | — | — | — | — |
| 3rd | +2 | Perceptive Eye | 3 | 3 | — | — | — | — |
| 4th | +2 | — | 3 | 3 | — | — | — | — |
| 5th | +3 | Alacrity, Extra Attack | 4 | 4 | 2 | — | — | — |
| 6th | +3 | — | 4 | 4 | 2 | — | — | — |
| 7th | +3 | Land's Stride | 5 | 4 | 3 | — | — | — |
| 8th | +3 | NC (Evasion) | 5 | 4 | 3 | — | — | — |
| 9th | +4 | — | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | — | — |
| 10th | +4 | Hide in Plain Sight | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | — | — |
| 11th | +4 | — | 7 | 4 | 3 | 3 | — | — |
| 12th | +4 | — | 7 | 4 | 3 | 3 | — | — |
| 13th | +5 | NC (Nature's Samina) | 8 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | — |
| 14th | +5 | Cover of Darkness | 8 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | — |
| 15th | +5 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | — | |
| 16th | +5 | NC (Ambush Master) | 9 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | — |
| 17th | +6 | — | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| 18th | +6 | Feral Senses | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| 19th | +6 | — | 11 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| 20th | +6 | Apex Preditor | 11 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
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