Rangers

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Adventurous souls adept at tracking and passing unnoticed, rangers are skilled coursers, deadly hunters, and rugged survivors.

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Ranger Heroes

Prerequisite: 12 Strength or 12 Dexterity, 12 Wisdom
Starting Hit Points: 8 + your Constitution modifier
Hit Die: d8
Proficiencies: You are Trained in Weapons, Light and Medium Armor, Dodge, Parry, and Initiative.
Skills: You possess the Survival skill and either the Handle Animal or Perception skill and can select three other Skills.

Ranger Features

Combat Style

Your focus in your ranger training provides powerful tactics in combat. Select two of the following options.

Cunning Combat: You know the Rogue Called Shot feature.
Twin Strike: Once per turn as an Attack action while wielding two one-handed weapons or an ammunition weapon, you can attack with each weapon or fire two rounds of ammunition. You do not add your Strength or Dexterity modifier to damage with these attacks. In addition, you ignore the 1-pound weight restriction when wielding two weapons.
Untamed Bond: You have an animal companion as if you had cast Animal Companion at a Trained rank. Once per turn, you can command it as part of making an Attack action in exchange for not adding your Strength or Dexterity modifier to damage on your attack. If your animal companion dies or you release it, you can gain another as if you cast Animal Companion again.
Boon Option: Select an additional Combat Style.

Hunter's Quarry

As an action, you can spend a hero's surge to designate a creature you can see or see a sign of (in tracks, fur, threads of clothing, etc.) as your quarry. You treat your quarry as a Favored Enemy, gaining a +1 Rank Bonus on attempts against it and dealing an additional 2 damage with attacks. This effect ends if you designate a new quarry or if you choose to regain the hero's surge.

Boon Option: Have one additional quarry active at a time.

Survivor’s Skills

You have Reliability with the Survival and Handle Animal skills if you possess them.

The Ranger

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Level	Benefit	Hero’s Surges	Title
1	Ranger Features, Combat Style, Hunter's Quarry, Survivor's Skills	4	Runner
2	Favored Enemy, Skirmisher	5
3	Courser's Path, Favored Terrain	5	Scout
4	Boon, Greater Combat Style	6
5	Valor, Favored Enemy	6
6	Courser's Path Feature	7	Tracker
7	Boon, Favored Terrain	7
8	Courser's Path Feature	8	Courser
9	Boon, Favored Terrain	8
10	Heroism, Favored Enemy	9	Pathfinder

LEVEL 2 Ranger

Favored Enemy

Select a specific type of creature, such as goblin, elf, dragon, undead, angel, or devil. You treat them as under the effects of your Hunter's Quarry and if you use Hunter's Quarry on such a creature, your attacks deal an additional 1 damage.

In addition, you extend your Reknown to such creatures or double it if your Reknown already extends to them.
At level 5 and level 10, select an additional Favored Enemy.
Boon Option: Select an additional Favored Enemy.

Skirmisher

Once per turn after you've moved 15’ or more from the location you ended your last turn, you can add your Wisdom modifier to the damage of your next attack. If you do not use this feature on your turn, once before the beginning of your next turn you can use up to 15' of your remaining movement to move after the end of another creature's turn.

Boon Option: Use up to all of your remaining movement with this feature.

LEVEL 3 Ranger

Courser's Path

Your ranger training lifts you to new heights, allowing you to specialize in a particular skill set. Choose a Courser's Path.

Beastmaster

Beastmasters

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You and your Animal Companion form a close-knit bond, anticipating each other's actions and working together as one.

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Prerequisite: Untamed Bond Combat Style

Animal Whisperer

You are so in tune with your Animal Companion that you can understand its language. Its communication is rudimentary due to its 2 Intelligence, but it can convey concepts it understands to you in simple terms.

Bestial Aspect

You learn two Bestial Aspect. When you see an aspect's trigger occur within 30', you can spend a hero's surge to gain the aspect's benefits and temporary hit points equal to your Wisdom modifier. An aspect's benefits last while it is active and whenever its trigger occurs you reapply its benefit or increase that benefit if it is additive.

You can only have one aspect active at a time. An aspect ends after one minute, after you activate a new aspect, or if you lose consciousness.
Boon Options:

• Increase the number of aspects you can have active at a time by one.
• Learn an additional Bestial Aspect.

Fierce Friend

Your Animal Companion adds your Wisdom modifier to its damage and base hit points and, while it is within 30' of you, gains your Bestial Aspect benefits.

LEVEL 6 Beastmaster

Bonded Gear

By spending twelve hours working with a magical weapon and 100 GP of components per the weapon's enchantment level, you can craft claw caps, fang sheaths, or a similar item to augment your Animal Companion's attack. While it is worn by your Animal Companion, this item shares the magic item properties of the weapon you use in this ritual.

This enchantment can only create gear for one natural weapon per magic weapon. If your Animal Companion has multiple natural weapons, such as two claw attacks or a claw and a bite, you must repeat this ritual with a different magical item to augment each natural weapon.

Coordinated Movement

When you and your Animal Companion make a movement attempt while adjacent to one another, you share the higher success level

Shared Soul

While adjacent to your Animal Companion, you can divide healing either of you receives amongst each other as you choose

LEVEL 8 Beastmaster

Instinctive Bond

Your bond with your Animal Companions becomes such that you can detect each other's vocalizations while within 1000'

Mutual Hate

Your Animal Companion benefits as you do from your Hunter's Quarry and Favored Enemy

Ranger Bestial Aspects

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Aspect	Trigger	Benefit
Bear	You gain temporary hit points, take damage, or hit an animal with an attack.	Double all temporary hit points you gain and make a Handle Animal attempt against animals you hit.
Gorilla	An ally takes damage (up to once per action) or you hear a language you do not understand.	Increase your weapon damage by 1 per trigger and gain rudimentary communication in one language of your choice.
Mongoose	You dodge an attack or succeed on a Perform attempt (up to once per round).	You gain a +1 rank bonus per trigger to Dodge and Perform.
Spider	You succeed on a movement attempt (up to once per round).	You gain a +1 rank bonus per trigger to such movement attempts and can make attacks while prone or in the midst of moving without penalty.
Viper	A critical hit occurs (up to once per action) or you spend your entire turn moving.	Increase your speed by 5' and gain a +1 rank bonus to Initiative per trigger.
Wolverine	You fail a social attempt (up to once per round) or hit an enemy.	Regain 1 HP and gain a +1 rank bonus to Charisma per trigger.

Spy

Spies

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Not all rangers favor the natural wilds, and your hunting grounds take you over the parapets to the streets, alleys, and sewers.

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Prerequisite: Urban or Dungeon Favored Terrain

Shifting Allegiances

Your Favored Enemies are not necessarily your enemies. You can apply your Favored Enemy damage bonus to healing and temporary hit points you grant such creatures as well.

Skill Mastery

You learn two Ranger Skill Mastery options for two skills you possess. You can spend a hero's surge when you see the Ranger Skill Mastery's trigger occur within 30' to employ it.

Boon Option: Learn an additional Ranger Skill Mastery for a skill you possess.

Street Smarts

You can permanently lose your ability to gain Reliability with Handle Animal to gain Reliability with Perception. In addition, if you choose the Spellcasting Combat Style, you can learn your rituals from either the Darkness, Freedom, Knowledge, Light, or Trickery domain instead.

Boon Option: Gain access to the rituals of an additional Street Smarts domain.

LEVEL 6 Spy

Street Legs

Move an additional 10' with your Skirmisher feature.

Sleuth's Quarry

You can use your Hunter's Quarry on an object you have seen or had described to you. In addition, when tracking your quarry down, you gain a +1 rank bonus to attempts you make directly related to locating it, including Social Skills to uncover information about its location and combat attempts against those who specifically try and stop you from reaching it.

LEVEL 8 Spy

Secret Repertoire

Select an additional Ranger Skill Mastery and gain its required skill if you do not possess it already.

Undercover Operative

While conscious, you can fail any Reknown check you choose to.

Ranger Skill Masteries

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Technique	Required Skill	Trigger	Effect
Analyze	Perceive	You start your turn adjacent to your quarry while it is in bright light.	Your next attempt against it on this turn gains reliability. If this reliability is not beneficial, do not expend your hero's surge.
Anticipate	Insight	Your quarry speaks to you.	For the next minute, you can increase the success level of one Initiative or social skill attempt against it by one.
Camouflage	Stealth	You have full cover from all creatures other than your allies and are not in bright light.	You become invisible until you move, take an action, or enter bright light.
Dash	Run	You finish taking a move action.	Move your speed.
Dive Roll	Acrobatics	Your quarry acts against a target.	You tumble up to your speed toward the target.
Fein Death	Perform	You suffer an ill effect.	You fall prone and appear to be dead to all forms of scrutiny for as long as you can hold your breath or until you take another action.
Feint	Deceive	Your attempt against your quarry fails.	Your attempt becomes a major success.
Kickstart	Medical	You move adjacent to a creature reduced to 0 or fewer hit points in the last round.	It regains hit points equal to ¼ of your maximum.
Spring Back	Jump	Your quarry acts against you.	Jump 10'. This movement does not trigger negative effects.
Toughen Up	Endurance	You suffer an ill effect.	For the next minute, you can increase the success level of one attempt against the same effect by one.
Wall Jump	Climb	You move adjacent to a wall.	You move 15' along the wall in any direction, ignoring occupied spaces and negative effects.

Strider

Striders

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The paragon of the lone huntsman, you are the wilderness's most feared force.

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Strider's Skills

Your training in the ranger arts gives you access to nature's innate power as well as your own. Choose two Bestial Aspects, two Ranger Skill Mastery options for two skills you possess, or one of each.

If you learn a Bestial Aspect, when you see its trigger occur within 30', you can spend a hero's surge to gain its benefits and Temporary Hit Points equal to your Wisdom modifier. An aspect's benefits last while it is active and whenever its trigger occurs you reapply its benefit or increase that benefit if it is additive.
You can only have one aspect active at a time. An aspect ends after one minute, after you activate a new aspect, or if you lose consciousness. If you learn a Ranger Skill Mastery, you can spend a hero's surge when you see its trigger occur within 30' to employ it.
Boon Options:

• Increase the number of Bestial Aspects you can have active at a time by one.
• Learn an additional Bestial Aspect or a Ranger Skill Mastery for a skill you possess.

Rigorous Training

You learn an additional Combat Style.

LEVEL 6 Strider

Fleetfooted

Increase your speed by 10'.

Boon Option: Increase your speed by an additional 10'.

Greater Strider Skills

Choose two additional Bestial Aspects, Ranger Skill Mastery options for skills you possess, Combat Styles, or any combination thereof.

LEVEL 8 Strider

Superior Combat Style

Your Combat Style options expand to include the following options, and you select an additional Combat Style.

Evasion: When you successfully defend against an attack, you suffer no ill effects such as half damage.
Multishot: After using twin strike, you can make an additional attack, though this attack must target a different creature. You do not add your Strength or Dexterity modifier to damage with this additional attack.
Split the Arrow: Before making an attack against a target you made a called shot or precise shot against on your previous turn, you can spend a hero's surge to use the previous attack's success level.

Ranger Bestial Aspects

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Aspect	Trigger	Benefit
Bear	You gain temporary hit points, take damage, or hit an animal with an attack.	Double all temporary hit points you gain and make a Handle Animal attempt against animals you hit.
Gorilla	An ally takes damage (up to once per action) or you hear a language you do not understand.	Increase your weapon damage by 1 per trigger and gain rudimentary communication in one language of your choice.
Mongoose	You dodge an attack or succeed on a Perform attempt (up to once per round).	You gain a +1 rank bonus per trigger to Dodge and Perform.
Spider	You succeed on a movement attempt (up to once per round).	You gain a +1 rank bonus per trigger to such movement attempts and can make attacks while prone or in the midst of moving without penalty.
Viper	A critical hit occurs (up to once per action) or you spend your entire turn moving.	Increase your speed by 5' and gain a +1 rank bonus to Initiative per trigger.
Wolverine	You fail a social attempt (up to once per round) or hit an enemy.	Regain 1 HP and gain a +1 rank bonus to Charisma per trigger.

Ranger Skill Masteries

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Technique	Required Skill	Trigger	Effect
Analyze	Perceive	You start your turn adjacent to your quarry while it is in bright light.	Your next attempt against it on this turn gains reliability. If this reliability is not beneficial, do not expend your hero's surge.
Anticipate	Insight	Your quarry speaks to you.	For the next minute, you can increase the success level of one Initiative or social skill attempt against it by one.
Camouflage	Stealth	You have full cover from all creatures other than your allies and are not in bright light.	You become invisible until you move, take an action, or enter bright light.
Dash	Run	You finish taking a move action.	Move your speed.
Dive Roll	Acrobatics	Your quarry acts against a target.	You tumble up to your speed toward the target.
Fein Death	Perform	You suffer an ill effect.	You fall prone and appear to be dead to all forms of scrutiny for as long as you can hold your breath or until you take another action.
Feint	Deceive	Your attempt against your quarry fails.	Your attempt becomes a major success.
Kickstart	Medical	You move adjacent to a creature reduced to 0 or fewer hit points in the last round.	It regains hit points equal to ¼ of your maximum.
Spring Back	Jump	Your quarry acts against you.	Jump 10'. This movement does not trigger negative effects.
Toughen Up	Endurance	You suffer an ill effect.	For the next minute, you can increase the success level of one attempt against the same effect by one.
Wall Jump	Climb	You move adjacent to a wall.	You move 15' along the wall in any direction, ignoring occupied spaces and negative effects.

Favored Terrain

Select a specific type of terrain, such as mountains, marshland, forest, desert, or urban. While in your favored terrain, you can't become lost, ignore naturally occurring difficult terrain, can move stealthily at a normal pace, and you and your allies travel at double your normal overland speed. In addition, when you forage, double the amount of food you find.

At level 7 and level 9, select an additional Favored Terrain.
Boon Option: Select an additional Favored Terrain.

LEVEL 4 Ranger

Greater Combat Style

Your Combat Style options expand to include the following options and you select an additional Combat Style.

Precise Shot: Your ranged weapon attacks ignore Disadvantage from Cover and Concealment.
Spellcasting: You become Trained in Divine Magic and learn a number of Nature Domain rituals equal to your level, the maximum spell level of which is equal to the number of odd levels you possess. Each level after taking this style, you learn an additional such ritual.
Boon Option: Add your Wisdom modifier to damage, healing, and hit points affected with Divine magic.
Two-Weapon Defense: When you have a limited or better Parry attempt against Multiple Attacks while wielding two weapons, you block an additional attack. In addition, you ignore the one-handed restriction when wielding two weapons.