Subclass Changes [buffs]

• Drakewarden Ranger - minor
• Horizon Walker Ranger - minor
• Hunter Ranger
• Monster Slayer Ranger

Drakewarden [Ranger]

Minor Buff

Drakewarden Magic

• • Starting at 3rd level, you learn an additional spell when you reach certain levels in this class, as shown in the Drakewarden Spells table. The spell counts as a ranger spell for you, but it doesn't count against the number of ranger spells you know.
  • Ranger Level - Spells
  • 3rd - absorb elements
  • 5th - dragon's breath
  • 9th - fear
  • 13th - elemental bane
  • 17th - summon draconic spirit

Horizon Walker [Ranger]

Minor Buff

Planar Warrior

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

Ethereal Step

• • At 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 end of the current turn.

Hunter [Ranger]

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.

Hunter Magic

• • Starting at 3rd level, you learn an additional spell when you reach certain levels in this class, as shown in the Hunter Spells table. The spell counts as a ranger spell for you, but it doesn't count against the number of ranger spells you know.
  • Ranger Level - Spells
  • 3rd - expeditious retreat, snare
  • 5th - cordon of arrows, pass without trace, see invisibility
  • 9th - clairvoyance, conjure barrage, Leomund's tiny hut, nondetection
  • 13th - freedom of movement, locate creature
  • 17th - conjure volley, scrying, swift quiver

Hunter's Prey

• • At 3rd level, you adapt to the enemy of the day. When you finish a long rest, you can choose one of the following features, gaining its benefits until you choose a different one.
    • Colossus Slayer. Your tenacity can wear down the most potent foes. When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, the creature takes an extra 1d8 damage if it's below its hit point maximum. You can deal this extra damage only once per turn.
    • Crippling Strike. Once per turn when you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can force it to make a Constitution saving throw against your ranger save DC. On a failed save, its speed is reduced to 0 until the start of your next 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 with an extra 1d10 damage 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 10 feet of the original target and within range of your weapon.
    • Pursuant Trapper. As an action, you can designate a creature that you're aware of, such as Strahd von Zarovich or an owlbear. While the creature is within 300 feet of you, your movement speed doubles and once on each of your turns when you hit that creature with a weapon attack, you reduce its movement speed by half.

Defensive Tactics

• • At 7th level, when you finish a long rest, you can choose one of the following features, gaining its benefits until you choose a different one.
    • Escape the Horde. Opportunity attacks against you are made with disadvantage. Your speed increases by 5 feet. Additionally, as a bonus action, you can take the disengage action.
    • 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.
    • Stand Firm. You have advantage on Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution saving throws made to resist nonmagical effects created by creatures, such a giant elk's Charge or a white dragon's Breath Weapon.
    • Steel Will. You have advantage on saving throws against being frightened. Additionally, you gain proficiency in a saving throw of your choice from the following, Wisdom or Charisma.
    • Stout Frame. As a reaction when you take bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing damage you reduce the damage by an amount equal to your Constitution modifier (minimum of 1).
    • Withstand the Horde. Your AC increases by 1 for each hostile creature within 5 feet of you.

Multiattack

• • At 11th level, you choose your fighting style to better match your enemies. When you finish a long rest, you can choose one of the following features, gaining its benefits until you choose a different one.
    • Rapid Strike. If you take the Attack action on your turn and have advantage on an attack roll against against one of the targets, you can forgo the advantage for that roll to make one additional weapon attack against that target, as part of the same action. You can do so no more than once per turn.
    • Volley. As an action, you can make a ranged attack against any number of creatures within 10 feet of a point within your weapon's range. You roll a separate attack roll for each target, and you must have ammunition for each individual attack.
    • Whirlwind Attack. As an action, you can make a melee attack against any number of creatures within range of your melee weapon. Make a separate attack roll for each target.

Superior Hunter

• • At 15th level, your senses are so keen that almost no one can escape your detection. You gain the following benefits: 
    • You gain a +8 bonus to your Intelligence (Investigation) and passive Wisdom (Perception) scores. 
    • You do not have disadvantage on attack rolls against invisible creatures. 
    • You have advantage on Intelligence (Investigation) checks against illusion spells. 
    • Enemy creatures within 60 feet of you have disadvantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks.
    • You gain one of the following features of your choice.
      • Evasion. 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 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. Additionally, as a reaction, you can make an attack roll against the source of damage provided you are in range and you can see the source of damage. Lastly, your speed increases by 5 feet.
      • 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. When a hostile creature misses you with a ranged attack, as a free action, you can make an attack roll against the hostile creature provided you are in range and you can see the creature. Lastly, you gain a +1 bonus to your AC.
      • 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. Additionally, you can't be surprised while you are conscious and other creatures don't gain advantage on attack rolls against you as a result of being unseen by you.

Monster Slayer [Ranger]

You have dedicated yourself to hunting down creatures of the night and wielders of grim magic. A monster slayer seeks out vampires, dragons, evil fey, fiends, and other magical threats. Trained in supernatural techniques to overcome such monsters, slayers are experts at unearthing and defeating mighty, mystical foes.

Monster Slayer Magic

• • At 3rd level, you learn an additional spell when you reach certain levels in this class, as shown in the Monster Slayer Spells table. The spell counts as a ranger spell for you, but it doesn't count against the number of ranger spells you know.
  • Monster Slayer Spells
    Ranger Level - Spell
    3rd - bless, protection from good and evil
    5th - see invisibility, spider climb, zone of truth
    9th - daylight, magic circle
    13th - banishment, greater invisibility
    17th - dispel evil and good, hold monster, planar binding

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 reaction when you roll for initiative or as a bonus action on your turn, you can target 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. If the creature is hidden from divination magic, you sense that no information can be gleamed in this manner about it.

Slayer's Prey

• • Starting at 3rd level, you can focus your ire on one foe, increasing the harm you inflict on it. As a bonus action or as part of the action used to target a creature through your Hunter's Sense, you designate one creature you can see within 60 feet of you as the target of this feature. The first time each turn that you hit that target with an attack, it takes an extra 1d4 damage of the attack's type. When you deal extra damage through this feature to a creature whose vulnerabilities (if any) you have divined through your Hunter's Sense, the extra damage becomes the type that creature is vulnerable to instead of the attack's normal damage type.

Offensive Defense

• • At 7th level, you gain one of the following features:
    • Supernatural Defense. You gain extra resilience against your prey’s assaults on your mind and body. Whenever you make a saving throw against a spell or effect produced by the target of your Slayer's Prey or you make a contested ability check against it, you can add 1d6 to your roll.
    • Unnatural Shackles. Your connection with the spirit world allows you to call forth spectral chains. As an action, you can attempt to bind a creature you can see. The target creature must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw against your spell save DC, or take 2d6 radiant damage and be restrained by the chains until the effect ends. A restrained creature can use its action to repeat the saving throw, freeing itself on a success. If a creature is bound for 3 rounds or longer, they automatically fail Dexterity or Strength checks and saving throws, and are bound until the chains are dismissed, or until they disappear after 1 minute. A creature affected by this ability cannot be bound again for another 24 hours.

True Nemesis

• • At 11th level, over the course of a long rest, you can conduct a ritual that magically transforms you to better slay your prey for a time. At the end of the ritual, you can choose one of the following features, gaining its benefit until you finish a long rest.
    • Aberration. You are always under the effects of see invisibility unless you choose not to be.
    • Beast. You can cast dominate beast once without expending a spell slot.
    • Celestial. You add an additional 1d10 to healing spells you cast.
    • Construct. You are immune to poison and disease.
    • Dragon. You can cast fear once without expending a spell slot. When you do so, it is considered a ranger spell for you.
    • Elemental. You gain resistance to your choice of acid, bludgeoning, cold, fire, lightning, or thunder damage.
    • Fey. You have advantage on saving throws against being charmed or frightened, and you can never suffer either condition for longer than 1 minute continuously.
    • Fiend. You can cast hellish rebuke at 3rd-level once without expending a spell slot. When you do so, it is considered a ranger spell for you.
    • Giant. Your reach increases by 5 feet and you have advantage on Strength checks and Strength saving throws.
    • Monstrosity. You can cast fly targeting yourself once without expending a spell slot. When you do so, it is considered a ranger spell for you.
    • Ooze. You can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch wide without squeezing and you can cast spider climb once without expending a spell slot.
    • Plant. You can cast speak with plants at will without expending a spell slot.
    • Spellcaster. When you see a creature casting a spell or teleporting within 60 feet of you, you can use your reaction and spend a ranger spell slot to attempt 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.
    • Undead. You don't need to eat, sleep, or breathe, and you have resistance to necrotic damage.

Symbol of the Slayer

• • At 15th level, you have learned to create symbols of protection and death. By inscribing a symbol onto your armor or person, you gain one of the following permanent effects of your choice:
    • When you fail a saving throw, you can reroll it. You must use this new roll. You can use this ability twice, regaining all expended uses when you finish a short or long rest. 
    • When you deal damage with an attack, you can choose to double the damage. You can use this ability twice, regaining all expended uses when you finish a short or long rest. 
    • You are no longer vulnerable to any damage type, and cannot be made vulnerable to any damage type.