SRD5:Ranger

	This article is about Ranger
	For other uses of Ranger, see Ranger (disambiguation).

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Ranger is a class in 5th edition.

Class Features

As a Ranger, you gain the following class features.

Hit Points

Hit Dice: 110 per Ranger level
Hit Points at 1st Level: 10 + your Constitution modifier
Hit Points at Higher Levels: 110 + your Constitution modifier

Proficiencies

Armor: Light armor, medium armor, shields
Weapons: Simple weapons, martial weapons
Tools: None
Saving Throws: Strength, Dexterity
Skills: Choose three from Animal Handling, Athletics, Insight, Investigation, Nature, Perception, Stealth, Survival.

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) explorer's pack and four javelins.
• A longbow and a quiver of 20 arrows

Ranger Overview Table

The Ranger

Level	Proficiency Bonus	Features	Spells Known	—Spell Slots per Spell Level—
				1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th
1st	+2	Favored Enemy, Natural Explorer	—	—	—	—	—	—
2nd	+2	Fighting Style, Spellcasting	2	2	—	—	—	—
3rd	+2	Ranger Archetype, Primeval Awareness	3	3	—	—	—	—
4th	+2	Ability Score Improvement	3	3	—	—	—	—
5th	+3	Extra Attack	4	4	2	—	—	—
6th	+3	Favored Enemy and Natural Explorer Improvements	4	4	2	—	—	—
7th	+3	Ranger Archetype Feature	5	4	3	—	—	—
8th	+3	Ability Score Improvement, Land's Stride	5	4	3	—	—	—
9th	+4	—	6	4	3	2	—	—
10th	+4	Natural Explorer Improvement, Hide in Plain Sight	6	4	3	2	—	—
11th	+4	Ranger Archetype Feature	7	4	3	3	—	—
12th	+4	Ability Score Improvement	7	4	3	3	—	—
13th	+5	—	8	4	3	3	1	—
14th	+5	Favored Enemy Improvement, Vanish	8	4	3	3	1	—
15th	+5	Ranger Archetype Feature	9	4	3	3	2	—
16th	+5	Ability Score Improvement	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	Ability Score Improvement	11	4	3	3	3	2
20th	+6	Foe Slayer	11	4	3	3	3	2

Favored Enemy

Beginning at 1st level, you have significant experience studying, tracking, hunting, and even talking to 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 have advantage on Wisdom (Survival) checks to track your favored enemies, as well as on Intelligence checks to recall information about them.

When you gain this feature, you also learn one language of your choice that is spoken by your favored enemies, if they speak one at all. You choose one additional favored enemy, as well as an associated language, at 6th and 14th level. As you gain levels, your choices should reflect the types of monsters you have encountered on your adventures.

Natural Explorer

You are particularly familiar with one type of natural environment and are adept at traveling and surviving in such regions. Choose one type of favored terrain: arctic, coast, desert, forest, grassland, mountain, or swamp. When you make an Intelligence or Wisdom check related to your favored terrain, your proficiency bonus is doubled if you are using a skill that you’re proficient in.

While traveling for an hour or more in your favored terrain, you gain the following benefits:

• Difficult terrain doesn’t slow your group’s travel.
• Your group can’t become lost except by magical means.
• Even when you are engaged in another activity while traveling (such as foraging, navigating, or tracking), you remain alert to danger.
• If you are traveling alone, you can move stealthily at a normal pace.
• When you forage, you find twice as much food as you normally would.
• While tracking other creatures, you also learn their exact number, their sizes, and how long ago they passed through the area. You choose additional favored terrain types at 6th and 10th level.

Fighting Style

Also see: Fighting Style (5e)

At 2nd level, you adopt a particular style of fighting as your specialty. Choose one of the following options. You can’t take a Fighting Style option more than once, even if you later get to choose again.

Archery

You gain a +2 bonus to attack rolls you make with ranged weapons.

Defense

While you are wearing armor, you gain a +1 bonus to AC.

Dueling

When you are wielding a melee weapon in one hand and no other weapons, you gain a +2 bonus to damage rolls with that weapon.

Two-Weapon Fighting

When you engage in two-­weapon fighting, you can add your ability modifier to the damage of the second attack.

Spellcasting

By the time you reach 2nd level, you have learned to use the magical essence of nature to cast spells, much as a druid does.

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 you finish a long rest.

For example, if you know the 1st-­level spell animal friendship and have a 1st-­level and a 2nd-­level spell slot available, 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 the ranger 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 can learn one new spell of 1st or 2nd level.

Additionally, when you gain a level in this class, you can 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 ranger spells, 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 for a ranger spell you cast and when making an attack roll with one.

Spell save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Wisdom modifier

Spell attack modifier = your proficiency bonus + your Wisdom modifier

Ranger Archetype

At 3rd level, you choose an archetype that you strive to emulate, such as the Hunter. Your choice grants you features at 3rd level and again at 7th, 11th, and 15th level.

Ranger Archetypes

This section exceeds the text of the SRD

Hunter is the only archetype listed in the SRD. Below are a ranger archetypes outside the SRD. (12 official and unofficial Ranger Archetypes.)

Ranger Archetype	Features	Summary	Source
Beast Master	Exceptional Training, Bestial Fury, Share Spells, Ranger's Companion or Primal Companion	These rangers cultivate friendships with beasts	Player's Handbook (5e)
Drakewarden	Draconic Gift, Bond of Fang and Scale, Drake's Breath, Drake Companion, Perfected Bond	This archetype bonds with a Drake	Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Fey Wanderer	Fey Wanderer Magic, Dreadful Strikes, Beguiling Twist, Otherworldly Glamour, Fey Reinforcements, Misty Wanderer	These rangers patrol the border between the Feywild and the Material Plane	Tasha's Cauldron of Everything
Fringe Warden	Fringe Warden Magic, Guerilla Tactics, Sharpened Senses, Moving Target, Cover of Night, Escape Artist	This archetype focuses on guerilla tactics.	Venture Maidens Campaign Guide
Gloom Stalker	Gloom Stalker Magic, Dread Ambusher, Umbral Sight, Iron Mind, Stalker’s Flurry, Shadowy Dodge	This archetype specializes in working in dark conditions.	Xanathar's Guide to Everything
Horizon Walker - Z's Revised		Horizon Walker is one of the worst subclasses for an originally-bad class; Fey Wanderer is just better. So let's give it some juice, shall we?	Zhenra-Khal
Horizon Walker	Horizon Walker Magic, Detect Portal, Planar Warrior, Ethereal Step, Distant Strike, Spectral Defense	This subclass focuses on threats from other planes	Xanathar's Guide to Everything
Hunter	Hunter’s Prey, Defensive Tactics, Multiattack, Superior Hunter’s Defense	Specialized Hunter	SRD-CC v5.1, SRD-OGL v5.1
Kinslayer
Monster Slayer	Monster Slayer Magic, Hunter’s Sense, Slayer’s Prey, Supernatural Defense, Magic-User’s Nemesis, Slayer’s Counter	This subclass focuses on knowing a foes capabilities and foiling them.	Xanathar's Guide to Everything
Shooting Star	Occult Lore, Natural Recovery, Unbending Focus, Arcane Attack, Spell Reflection	A Ranger conclave with an emphasis on mastering dark magic; a re-imagining of the Arcane Archer.	Vaegrim
Swarmkeeper	Gathered Swarm, Swarmkeeper Magic, Writhing Tide, Mighty Swarm, Swarming Dispersal	These rangers shepherd a swarm of nature spirits.	Tasha's Cauldron of Everything

Primeval Awareness

Beginning at 3rd level, you can use your action and expend one ranger spell slot to focus your awareness on the region around you. For 1 minute per level of the spell slot you expend, you can sense whether the following types of creatures are present within 1 mile of you (or within up to 6 miles if you are in your favored terrain): aberrations, celestials, dragons, elementals, fey, fiends, and undead. This feature doesn’t reveal the creatures’ location or number.

Ability Score Improvement

When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 12th, 16th, and 19th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, you can’t increase an ability score above 20 using this feature.

Extra Attack

Beginning at 5th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

Land’s Stride

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 those created by the entangle spell.

Hide in Plain Sight

Starting at 10th level, you can spend 1 minute creating camouflage for yourself. You must have access to fresh mud, dirt, plants, soot, and other naturally occurring materials with which to create your camouflage.

Once you are camouflaged in this way, you can try to hide by pressing yourself up against a solid surface, such as a tree or wall, that is at least as tall and wide as you are. You gain a +10 bonus to Dexterity (Stealth) checks 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.

Vanish

Starting at 14th level, you can use the Hide action as a bonus action on your turn. Also, you can’t be tracked by nonmagical means, unless you choose to leave a trail.

Feral Senses

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. You are also aware of the location of any invisible creature within 30 feet of you, provided that the creature isn’t hidden from you and you aren’t blinded or deafened.

Foe Slayer

At 20th level, you become an unparalleled hunter of your enemies. Once on each of your turns, you can add your Wisdom modifier to the attack roll or the damage roll of an attack you make against one of your favored enemies. You can choose to use this feature before or after the roll, but before any effects of the roll are applied.

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Optional Class Features

These features are DM optional.

• Deft Explorer - (1st level) Replaces Natural Explorer.
  • Canny - (1st level) Gain expertise in one skill, gain 2 languages.
  • Roving - (6th level) Boost to speed, gain climbing and swimming.
  • Tireless - (10th level) Gain temporary hit points, reduce exhaustion on a short rest.
• Favored Foe - (1st level) replaces Favored Enemy Mark a creature. Marked creatures take extra damage from your attacks. Works with Foe Slayer feature.
• Additional Ranger Spells - (2nd level) Expands list of ranger spells.
• Fighting Style Options - (2nd level) Expands list of Fighting Styles.
  • Blind Fighting - Gain short range blindsight.
  • Druidic Warror - Learn Druid cantrips.
  • Thrown Weapon Fighting - Quick draw thrown weapon and deal extra damage with them.
• Spellcasting Focus - (2nd level) Gain druidic focus.
• Primal Awareness - (3rd level) replaces Primeval Awareness Gain spells you may cast without spending a spell slot.
• Martial Versatility - (4th level) May replace fighting style each time you get the Ability Score Improvement.
• Nature's Veil - (10th level) replaces Hide in Plane Sight Short term invisibility.

Sources

• Wizards RPG Team (6 May 2015). SRD-OGL v5.1. (5e 2014) Wizards of the Coast.

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