Hunter

The blood carries many curses that if left unchecked spread rampant across the lands. It is the duty of Blood Hunters to scour the lands for signs of infection and wipe them out, no matter the cost.

At 7th level, your mastery of the blood flowing through you makes you immune to disease and poison.

At 11th level, you can channel the blood from your wounds into your crimson rite. When a creature lands a critical hit on you, or when you land a critical hit on a creature, you can use your reaction to activate your Hunter's Technique: Crimson Rite without taking necrotic damage or expending a use of your Hunter's Technique.

At 15th level, you learn to emulate to the effects of the blood curse you seek to eliminate, granting you supernatural fortitude. As a bonus action, you can draw upon the power of the curse and gain the following benefits:

This curse lasts for 1 minute. It ends early if you are knocked unconscious. You can also end this curse on your turn as a bonus action.

Once you use this feature, you must finish a short or long rest before you can use it again.

Hunters that excel in fighting humanoids, Bounty Hunters develop techniques specialized for subduing humanoid enemies. These techniques cover the spectrum in lethality, allowing the hunters to catch their prey, dead or alive. Vicious and terrifying to behold, few dare stand in their way.

Starting at 7th level, 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.

At 11th level, you have learned to intimidate those would stand in your way. When you score a critical hit or reduce a creature to 0 hit points, you can use your bonus action to force one creature of your choice that you can see within 30 feet of you to make a Wisdom saving throw against your hunter spell save DC. On a failed save, a creature becomes frightened of you for 1 minute. A creature can repeat this saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on a success.

At 15th level, you learn to evade pursuit by leading your foes astray. While you are hidden, you can use your action to stir up a disturbance in a space you can see within 30 feet of you. Each creature attempting to locate you must make a Wisdom (Perception) check against your hunter spell save DC. A creature automatically succeeds this check if it can see the space and knows it is unoccupied. On a failed check, a creature thinks you are hidden in that location. In addition, the next hit you score against a creature that failed the check before the end of your next turn is a critical hit if you attack while hidden.

The adage "the bigger they are, the harder they fall" is one that hunters of giants and other large quarry live by every day. With techniques designed to take down massive foes, these hunters utilize their quick thinking and even quicker reflexes to bring down the largest of prey. These hunters utilize hit-and-run tactics, siege weaponry, and barricades to wear down their prey. Should the situation call for it, the most powerful of these hunters can become towering giants themselves.

Starting at 7th level, 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.

At 11th level, you learn to coordinate your attacks with your allies on your quarry. When you use your Hunter's Mark, you can choose a friendly creature within 60 feet of you. That creature's weapon attacks also deal an extra 1d6 damage of the weapon's type to the marked target.

This effect ends if you fall unconscious, use your Hunter's Mark on another creature, or dismiss it as a bonus action.

At 15th level, you gain the power to bolster your size in order to face large foes. When you cast enlarge/reduce on yourself to increase your size, you can increase your size by two categories—from Medium to Huge, for example, instead of just one category, for the spell's duration. This growth quadruple your size all dimensions, multiplying your weight by 64. If there isn't enough room for you to quadruple your size, you attain the maximum possible size in the space available. You gain all the effects of the enlarge option, and your weapons also grow to match your new size. While these weapons are enlarged, your attacks with them deal 2d8 extra damage (instead of the spell's 1d4 extra damage) and your reach with these weapons is doubled.

Once you use this feature, you must finish a long rest before you can use it again.

Specialized to face the most profane of creatures, these hunters fight undead, fiends, and other creatures of the night. Experts in wounding, tracking, and crushing their quarry, these hunters are fearless in the face of death.

At 7th level, your dealings with the dark has left your spirit unshakable. You can't be charmed, frightened, or possessed.

At 11th level, you learn how to make your weapon strikes undercut a creature's resistance. When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, it loses any resistances it has until the end of your next turn.

At 15th level, your dealings with the unholy has imparted supernatural healing upon yourself. At the start of each of your turns, you gain temporary hit points equal to 1d6 plus your Wisdom modifier if you are not standing in sunlight.

Seeking dragons is truly the height of insanity. Yet regardless, hunters who seek dragons learn techniques specifically honed to pierce their armor scales and clip their wings.

Beginning at 7th level, you can nimbly dodge out of the way of certain area effects, such as a red dragon's fiery breath or an ice storm 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.

At 11th level, you can prepare yourself for the elemental hazards you may face. Choose one damage type from acid, cold, fire, lightning, or poison when you finish a short or long rest. You gain resistance to that damage type until you choose a different one with this feature.

At 15th level, you develop the same terrifying aura that dragons exude. As an action, you can force each creature of your choice that you can see within 30 feet of you to make a Wisdom saving throw against your hunter spell save DC. On a failed save, a creature becomes frightened of you for 1 minute. The frightened creature can repeat this saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. If a creature's saving throw is successful or the effect ends for it, the creature is immune to this feature for the next 24 hours.

Once you use this feature, you must finish a short or long rest before you can use it again.

Hunters who specialize in fighting large numbers of foes, Horde Breakers favor agility over raw might, quickly dispatching foe after foe in order to survive. They employ tactics that are capable of effectively disrupting and eliminating large numbers of enemies at once.

At 7th level, you learn to evade blows when you maneuver yourself out of the fray. Opportunity attacks against you are made with disadvantage.

At 11th level, you learn to strike fast and hard against the oncoming hoard. You gain both of the following features:

At 15th level, you learn to press the attack with your allies to overwhelm your foes. You have advantage on an attack roll against a creature if at least one of your allies is within 5 feet of the creature and the ally isn't incapacitated. Additionally, when you hit a creature with an attack while within 5 feet of it, it has disadvantage on all attack rolls against targets other than you until the end of your next turn.

Trained in the arcane, Mage Hunters are hunters that specialize in subduing spellcasters. From the subtle flick of a wrist, to the whispers of an incantation in the wind, these hunters are well versed in the signs of magic, being practitioners of magic themselves.

By 7th level, you have honed your ability to resist the mind-altering powers of your prey. You gain proficiency in Wisdom saving throws. If you already have this proficiency, you instead gain proficiency in Intelligence or Charisma saving throws (your choice).

At 11th level, you hone your skills to quickly analyze and shut down spellcasters. When you see the target of your Hunter's Mark casting a spell, you can use your reaction to make one weapon attack at the target. On a hit, the creature must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC or its spell fails and is wasted.

At 15th level, you have mastered the art of weaving spellcasting and weapon use into a single harmonious act. When you use your action to cast a hunter spell, you can make one weapon attack as a bonus action.

Night Stalkers are at home in the darkest places: deep under the surface, in gloomy alleyways, in primeval forests, and wherever else the light dims. Most folk enter such places with trepidation, but a Night Stalker ventures boldly into the darkness, seeking to ambush the threats of the deep such as umberhulks, goblins, kobolds and illithids. Such hunters are often found in the Underdark, but they will go any place where monsters lurk in the shadows.

Beginning at 7th level, you can empty your mind to hide your presence. While in dim light or darkness, you are immune to any effect that would sense your emotions or read your thoughts and have resistances to psychic damage.

Additionally, while you are in darkness, you are invisible to any creature that relies on darkvision to see you in that darkness.

Starting at 11th level, you can sing to the shadows around you, twisting them to encircle you. As a bonus action on your turn, you can exude an aura of darkness in a 30-foot radius around you until the start of your next turn. Any bright light within the aura becomes dim light, and any dim light becomes darkness.

Additionally, whenever you hit a creature that is in dim light or darkness with a weapon attack, the creature takes an extra 1d8 psychic damage.

At 15th level, you have learned methods to deceive your prey, striking both their body and mind. As an action while you are standing in dim light or darkness, you can create a shadowy replica of yourself, which appears in your space and lasts until you dismiss it as a bonus action or use this feature again. The replica is instantly destroyed if it is exposed to bright light, if it is subject to fire or radiant damage, or is targeted by any effect that dispels magic.

The replica's appearance, weight, size, and smell are identical to yours, and produces sounds as you do. It has no thoughts, and creatures with truesight can perceive it as a shadowy mass and are immune to the replica's attacks. The replica is immune to all damage and effects, but reacts realistically to being struck. It can occupy the spaces of other creatures. On your turn, you can mentally command the replica to move up to 30 feet in any direction (no action required), to a space you can see.

While the replica is in your space, creatures that don't have truesight or see the replica for what it is have disadvantage on attacks made against you. When you take the Attack action on your turn, you can attack as if you were in the replica's space, but you must use your own senses. If you do so, the attack deals psychic damage instead of its normal type.

If a creature within 30 feet of the replica uses its action to examine it, the creature can make an Intelligence (Investigation) check against your spell save DC. On a success, the creature can perceive the replica as a mass of shadowy darkness, becomes unaffected by this particular replica's attacks, and has advantage on Intelligence (Investigation) checks made to examine all replicas created by you for the next 24 hours.

Once you use this feature, you must finish a short or long rest before you can use it again.

Plane Keepers guard the world against threats that originate from other planes or that seek to ravage the mortal realm with otherworldly magic. They seek out planar portals and keep watch over them, venturing to the Inner Planes and the Outer Planes as needed to pursue their foes. These hunters are also friends to any forces in the multiverse–especially benevolent dragons, fey, and elementals–that work to preserve life and the order of the planes.

By 7th level, your ability to move between planes allows you to slip through the planar boundaries to lessen the harm done to you during battle. When you take damage, you can use your reaction to give yourself resistance to all damage until the end of the turn.

At 11th level, you gain the ability to pass between the planes in a blink of an eye. When you use the Attack action, you can teleport up to 10 feet before or after each attack to an unoccupied space you can see. If you attack at least two different creatures with the action, you can make one additional attack with it against a third creature.

At 15th level, your extraplanar experiences have granted you the ability to walk the rift between worlds. When you are in the Astral Plane, you can use your normal movement speed. Additionally, you can create a rift to the Astral Plane as an action, filling a 100-foot cube originating from you. For 1 minute, the area becomes filled with the essence of the Astral Plane. Each creatures aside from you inside the area can't use its normal movement speed, and instead has a movement speed (in feet) equal to 3 × its Intelligence score.

When a creature starts its turn within the area or enters the area for the first time on its turn, you can force it to make an Intelligence saving throw against your hunter spell save DC. The target takes 2d10 psychic damage on a failed save. If it fails this saving throw by 5 or more, it is stunned until the end of its turn.

Once you create a rift, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

Hunters that deal primarily with beasts and plants, Rangers are experts at navigating treacherous terrain and moving without a trace. They cultivate a codependency with the flora and fauna, serving as wardens of nature.

Starting at 7th 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 those created by the entangle spell.

Starting at 11th level, you are difficult to pin down during a fight. You can move up to half your speed as a reaction when a hostile creature moves within 5 feet of you. This movement doesn't provoke opportunity attacks.

At 15th level, your connection with the wild allows you to take on the shape of a creature of the wild. As an action, you can transform into a beast or plant with a challenge rating of 3 or lower.

You can stay in this form for 1 hour. You then revert to your normal form. You can revert to your normal form earlier by using a bonus action on your turn. You automatically revert if you fall unconscious, drop to 0 hit points, or die.

While you are transformed, the following rules apply:

Once you use this feature, you must finish a long rest before you can use it again.