Ciao, belli! Update to the revision I posted already earlier this week.

• The feature to recover uses of Favored Enemy (renamed Ranger's Focus for themes) and allow to cast Enhance Ability, no conc on yourself is moved to lv6
• Lv6 no longer offers Potency (+WIS to blast spell damage) as an option
• Lv6 no longer grants Advantage to Initiative rolls (you can get it with Enhance Ability)
• Capstone streamlined
• LV10 Hunter streamlined
• (in addition, spells had already been polished)
• EDIT: removed lv 17 feature too

If you read the previous version, this is all there is to it, you can save your time ;-)

If you didn't, this is a Ranger meant to bring the heat, its DPR has been calculated against Paladin to deal similar damage, which is what I want the Ranger to do (essentially, keeping up how damage is already at the start of tier 2 up to level 20). There are flavourful features, but that's the main improvement compared to PHB. The goal is to have a variant feels as if it belongs in the PHB. That being said, you can also save your time!!! But feedback is very appreciated XD

In the comments, some charts of where damage stands with this revision.

That'll be all, thanks again for the feedback and the support so far

Bring the Torch!

CHANGELOG: clarified spells, modified capstone (it's a fake level anyway)

Ciao, belli!

I'm proud to present the latest - and possibly final, bar minor corrections - version of my revision!

I made the file with Homebrewery this time.

The Vision

Full disclosure: this is a Ranger to deal damage with. It's not void of flavour, but it won't deal half the damage other classes deal so they can have Expertise in Perception: Rangers start their careers as excellent damage dealers and should end their careers as such

In tier 1 what you do is that you cast Hunter's Mark and attack. This is cool, it works, until HM is revealed to be just a 1st level spell. So, in this version I ditched all the improvements PHB gives to HM, granted other uses for Favored Enemy (renamed Ranger's Focus because not every option had to do with enemies directly). So, instead of casting a bonus action 1st level spell when you're at level 11, you're going to cast a bonus action 3rd level spell, or you're going to open combat by blasting with extra damage, then default to Hunter's Mark, or you're going to pre-cast a long Duration spell and make it last longer

In addition, subclass features have been moved down to level 10: level 11 is reserved for Elemental Strikes that add 1d8 Acid, Cold, Fire, Lightning or Thunder damage to your attacks... and those of your summons (critically, not the Primal Companion)

The damage was considered and painstakingly calculated to be in line with the Paladin, from which it trades their staying power with the ability to be ranged, one that is hampered by limited spell ranges, so you might be better off casting Hunter's Mark and move back, since Seeking Fang or Shadow Self (new spells) won't reach your target

The Content

• Revised Ranger's class
• Revised Spells
• New Spells
• Revised Subclasses

Thanks to everyone for their support so far and for the plethora of ideas; I apologise for not including the due thanks, I didn't take note of whose idea was which: everyone in this sub has been very helpful to come up with the current and the previous versions. I believe this is a great community, with a great attitude towards cooperation and improvement. If you believe you deserve credit for something, I'd be happy to include that in an apposite section and link your content.

Bring the Torch!

EDIT: I'm going to bite the bullet and give them Heavy Armor proficiency and that's that. They still get penalties like not getting the extra 10ft from Roving and possibly Stealth disadvantage, but there's no reason why a trained combatant who's proficient with a Greatsword shouldn't be with a Plate, they will just rather use Medium because it's less of a hassle in the wilderness.

As it stands the issue is STRangers want 17 STR at lv1; but they want decent DEX for AC, WIS for spellcasting and CON for staying alive.

There are workarounds:

• 14 D 10 C 16 W, tough origin feat; as your good spells are concentration, that means +0 to the saving throw you'll throw the most; you miss on other Origin Feats
• 12 D, 14 C, 14 W, Defense FS to compensate the AC lost; you could lower C or W and rise the other, it's not ideal
• 10 D 14 C 15 W, to hell with it, my AC will suck, but at level 5 I will pre-cast Barkskin, making it decent when I do

But let's say that what I want to do, in a revision, is to make STRanger as seamless as DEXadin, meaning you don't need any of these tricks. Dropping DEX is still punishing as that means lower initiative, an important saving throw and ranged combat when you can't go melee (of course dropping STR has its downsides too, but they're not as major). I came up with a solution in the form of a Fighting Style (open to all classes) in my revision

• Instinctive Defense You can add your Wisdom modifier instead of your Dexterity modifier for the purpose of calculating AC of Light and Medium armors. All other limitations remain unchanged.

And I figure "this fixes everything, now you can have a Ranger wield a Greatsword" (in fact, I ran the numbers on a Hunter with a Greatsword and matches up well against a Devotion Dexadin, which is where I wanted it to be) and this doesn't really benefit casters armor dipping anymore than the Defense fighting style would do (they still need 13 DEX to access a class with a FS anyway, so worst case scenario in a medium armor they would get +1 from Dex, getting the second one from this or Defense would be the same), it could benefit WIS based Rogues that cast True Strike, but I'm pretty much okay with that, they need AC anyway

Except a little Aragorn was staring at me intensely: this cuts longsword or other sword and board builds out of the deal, because, unlike heavy weapons, you kind of really need FS for them, as that's an important source of damage (and Great Weapon Fighter isn't)

So, I was thinking: what if this was part of the Dueling Figthing Style, instead of its own thing?

• Thematically, a duelist is actively defending, so it could make sense that their defense depends on their awareness, covered by wisdom, as much as their reflexes, from dexterity
• Balance-wise, I'm really not concerned with a Wizard getting a +2 to damage rolls if they cast True Strike with a staff. Bladesingers now wouldn't care as they can't use armor to enter Bladesong; Valor Bards could be an issue, but I don't think they had trouble fitting 14 Dex in their build

Opinions?

Have you ever tried to imagine how a wizard would be like if it was built with the design choices of a fighter, without spell slots and cantrips and instead class features that cover the several spells?

For instance, it would have proficiency in every focus, instead of weapon, and every focus would be able to male a spell attack, eg

Staff (two-handed, heavy) 2d6+INT force damage in 5ft

Rod 1d10 + INT lightning in 5ft

Wand 1d6 + INT ranged 60/120 ft

The it would get class features such as Burning Hands, INT times a day you can deal XdX fire damage in a x feet cone

At level 5 you would get extra-cast and be able to attack twice with your focus

If you want access to Fireball, that's a subclass feature of the Evoker only.

Whenever they wanted to release a new spell, it would be part of a new Wizard subclass.

But hey, maybe your DM is dropping you a rare Rod that can use charges to cast Ligthning bolt or something!

This is just a small mental experiment. I'm considering making the whole class as homebrew if I've got time to kill, but the whole point is that I think it illustrates the inherent martial-caster divide effectively.

Title pretty much. I can go without pictures, but it would be more pleasant and I don't want to use the PHB's ones

I'm playing EK and at lv13 I want to cast Haste on myself and then replace the one attack from the Attack action from Haste with True Strike thanks to War Magic... however Haste does specify "one attack only": fairness is rule and rule is power, how do you rule?

As you know, NV used to be Hide in Plain Sight, a barely ever usable feature.

The thing is: does the Ranger even need such an ability? Thematically, it reinforces the Ranger as a green rogue of sort (est qu'il est vert ou rouge?!), but if anything the Ranger should be an anti-rogue, not able to always disappear but to always be able to find something.

Then there are the practical applications: 12 seconds of Invisibility can maybe be useful out of combat (expending more uses only lengthen them 6 seconds each), but not so much (hence why lots of revisions, probably since Treantmonk give a way to extend that to 10 minutes). In combat, this could be a way to gain Advantage... except it's level 14: of CR14+ monsters in the 2025 Manual, a whopping 41 out of 47 have Blind or Truesight

This would be an issue for the ranger if it had to rely on this to get Advantage and keep its DPR steady: there are ways to make use of NV in spite of blindsight, namely using ranged attacks which can often allow you to place your character outside of the range of the special sense, but why would a Melee build be penalised?

In my revision (in which this issue is not solved yet, but it is WIP) I went with better sources of damage to improve dpr, like better spells than HM and an analogue for the paladins' radiant strikes, which many did in a similar or different way. But if Nature's Veil becomes an afterthought, should it stay the same?

If anything a Ranger should become better at spotting the enemy, rather than being spotted by it, but the two things can be a side of the same coin.

An easy fix would be

Nature's Veil

You know the Pass without Trace spell and it doesn't count against your number of spells prepared. You can cast it a number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier and you regain all uses when you finish a Long Rest. When you cast Pass without Trace like this, the spell lasts for 1 hour without requiring Concentration

This way you would pass the ball to the Hide action mechanics but it would work far better as a Guide of sort, leading a party in hostile territory.

Alternatively, it could be an aura of sort that grants some benefits, something like +WIS to Dexterity and Wisdom ability checks, or Advantage, but I'm not a fan of Rangers having their Aura of Courage

Yet another route could be to ditch the stealth theme entirely; finally, if we're so into Nature's Veil, it should at least compensate for Blindsight somehow: possibly the "Spirits of nature" can give half cover from Special Senses, as creatures with enhanced senses would perceive them moving erratically around the Ranger

But really, this should be a perfect moment to give the Ranger something really thematic and catered to Exploration rather than Combat, a bit of an Achille's heel of mine

A similar issue has Umbral Sight: this is a very demanding (DM, is there darkness in here) and front-loaded feature that's effectively permanent Advantage, but it stops being useful the moment Blindsight goes on sale at Wallmart. Broken or useless with a small in-between sweetspot, and also something ripe for the taking for a few level dips. Probably Gloom Stalker should be nerfed at low levels and buffed back at lv10, but I don't know how yet

This is my top-down version of the ranger meant to feel at home alongside the rest of the classes from the PHB.

Sorry for the poor formatting, I'm away from my laptop and worked on my phone. There's a commentary alongside the document, so I'm going to skip any further preamble!

Enjoy and thanks for the feedback!

Edit: changed the embedded file

From an online search, Naruto can't access So6P anymore because you need chakra from all tail beasts to do so and he's now missing Kurama's.

But like, Kinkaku and Ginkaku had enough Kurama chakra to allow for juubito and Naturo didn't have any other tailed beast prior to that. Was Kurama's chakra eradicated so completely he doesn't even have a remnant?

The revision I published yesterday is too clunky. My goal was to allow dual concentration with HM, but you don't deal HM's damage if you're concentrating on something else, but you do get to roll a bonus dice for initiative when you are concentrating on this, and you can't lose concentration if you are concentrating like that: I like the end result (being able to use HM as a buffer for other spells' Duration and Concentration), but it is very, very clunky.

The obvious solution to achieve the same thing is to reluctantly move away from Hunter's Mark: something like

Level 1: Primal Trance
As a Bonus Action, you can enter a state of focus, akin to a predator ready to stalk its prey, that lasts for one hour. During this state, you get Advantage to any Wisdom (Perception or Survival) checks to find creatures or track a trail. In addition, as a Bonus Action, or as part of the Bonus Action you use to activate this feature, you can mark a creature and concentrate as if you were concentrating on a spell. Until this state ends, you deal 1d6 extra Force damage to the marked creature whenever you hit it with an attack.

This would allow to achieve pretty much everything I wanted HM to do at low levels. It's a little more powerful, as you can't definitively lose Concentration on it, but that could be balanced via the number of uses. It would also push the Player to start casting other spells from level 1.

The issue is that so many subclass features work with Hunter's Mark and they're probably going to increase over time. The way I see it the solution would be:

A) rewrite the features that interact with HM

B) add a clause like "enterting this state is considered to be casting the Hunter's Mark spell, and that is considered this, and this is considered that"

C) add a Designer Note that clarifies the intent and give a guideline of how to adapt things.

The issue with the wereforms is that you can't access your inventory, nor use any equipment.

This is balances overall, the forms are powerful and cheap. But if you are playing woodie, you want to fight as the moose, which means that your damage caps lower than with most weapons. If you're working as the beaver, you can't collect stuff from the ground, nor can you when you're exploring as the goose.

So, I was thinking: what if there was a second tier for woodie's forms that required higher investment?

For instance: you can craft a possessed moose idol with a regular one and nightmare fuel. This doesn't change your transformation by itself, but it links it to a unique structure you can also build, the curse totem.

The totem is a structure in which you can store a weapon, increasing the attack damage of the moose as if it was using it (consuming durability) and/or an amulet, like a lazy forager. You could maybe also put a gold shovel in there, granting the goose the ability to dig out movable resources. The items collected could go into your inventory, or in slots in the totem.

Wood you like that? Generally speaking, while the forms have a very cheap and high floor, which is great, do you think they should also get a higher ceiling, at a cost?

AoE is one of the few things that stays good throughout a Ranger's career when going in high tiers. This isn't particularly great when looking at casters, but it really is a solid option to have for a martial: afterall, no matter how potent a smite is, if you're facing a horde of goblin that will all die in one hit, you're potentially wasting much more damage.

A thing that bugs me is however that you go from having no direct AoE (I mean, you do have Hail of Thorns, but that's a whole different thing) to having the amazing Conjure Barrage.

There is a sort of precursor, also thematically, which is Cordon of Arrow. While it's a way to ambush enemies for a rest, if you designate 4 enemies to be your target, they're going to take damage in their turn. 2d4 save for naught is not decent damage, tho, I was thinking 2d8 + WIS, save for half, upcast by 1d8 instead of by arrow. Opinions?

Questo è praticamente The Severance (mai visto) che incontra JoJo. È solo il pitch su cui realizzerei la parte se fossi incaricato di farne una, volevo sapere che cosa ne pensano altri fan e quali idee realizzerebbero loro.

Invece di essere una vera e propria prigione, l'ambientazione è tutta all'interno di un grattacielo impossibilmente grande. Si entra come stagisti e si perdono le memorie del mondo esterno, il tuo unico scopo diventa salire la scala gerarchica. Siccome non ricordi il tuo nome, questo viene stabilito pescando due carte da gioco all'ingresso e la protagonista pesca due Joker, diventando così JoJo.

Il suo stand sarebbe Pinball Wizard, relativamente semplice e capace di scagliare oggetti in modo che rimbalzino, il che funziona particolarmente bene in mezzo ai cubicoli.

Non ho un titolo figo, magari una roba tipo TBAo JoJo: Grey Dream?

Voi come fareste la vostra "parte" di JoJo?

• Kintoki is on the ground, Odin moves in for the kill
• Emotional trigger from the audience
• Odin stabs towards Kintoki
• Kintoki's left arm catches the tip of Gungnir: it's now red like the right arm and on the back of its hand there's the ᚨ Anzus rune
• Some scientist from R8 "n-nani?! His left hand?!" Edison "Uh?!?! It... it worked?!" (in the back him rubbing Kintoki's left hand)
• Odin "that... that rune" (with sheer hatred) "Gollnir!!!" and throws the spear with his Galdr
• Kintoki's internal dialogue, his mind is opened by the rune, flooded with Gollnir's creativity; the rune of Dagaz lightens up
• He blocks the spear with his right hand, wrapped in a light construct
• Thor: "that looks like..." (he thinks of his gauntlets, Gollnir's first shown invention)

Then some respite and possibly some more unrequited backstory that I've had enough of. Odin tries to control Kintoki's flesh again, but he envelops himself in a full armor of light. Kintoki ends up winning the round, Odin seems defeated, but it's actually just his Velk body dying, he will return as the true final boss, somehow, possibly with all the 11 god slayers or just the 5 Yggdrasil.

Meaning of the Runes: Dagaz is dawn and light, material creation; Anzus (seen on Gollnir's funerary candle) is the rune of vision and ideas; together they represent the creative process as a whole

Homebrew content, I forgot to put it in the title

These are meant to be used in my revision that will allow to extend the spells to enable pre-casting them and have them active when you need them. The current way this is going to happen is by being able to swap Concentration between a different Concentration spell and Hunter's Mark, ideally it will be intuitive in the revision; for now, my vision for the Ranger is to make it the best at pre-casting a big spell as a way to get ready for combat, which I think to be very thematic for Rangers.

This would absolutely work for the spells that Ranger gets (Summon Beast and Fey and Conjure Animals and Woodland Beings in particular), but I also wanted to have exclusive spells that orbit around that level of damage, which I'm presenting here

Seeking Fang
Level 2 Transmutation (Ranger)
Casting Time: 1 Action
Range: Self
Components: V, S, M (an arrow worth at least 1 CP)
Duration: Concentration, up to 10 minutes

You imbue the arrow used as a Material component with magic and the will to hunt down your enemy. The arrow starts orbiting around you. The first time you move on each of your turns, you can teleport the dagger to an unoccupied space you can see within 60 feet of you. If that space is occupied by a creature, it must make a Dexterity saving throw against your spell save DC. On a failed save, the creature takes 3d8 Force damage, and its Speed is reduced by 10 feet until the start of your next turn. On a successful save, it takes half as much damage only.

At Higher Levels. The damage increases by 1d8 for each spell slot level above 2nd.

[Damage comparison, 16WIS: Summon Beast deals ~8.5 DPR (pack tactics advantage) AND creates an HP sponge (plus potential AoO); this deals 10.8 on average and has a Speed control; ideal to combo with Longbow]

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Shadow Self
Level 3 Illusion (Ranger)
Casting Time: 1 Action
Range: Self
Components: V, S
Duration: Concentration, up to 10 minutes

You manifest a quasi-real, spectral clone of yourself that moves behind you, mirroring your movements. While the spell lasts, you gain half cover.

The first time you hit a creature with a weapon attack on each of your turns, the clone lashes out with its spectral weapons. The target must make a Dexterity saving throw against your spell save DC, taking 6d6 Force damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 4th level or higher, the damage of both effects increases by 1d6 for each slot level above 3rd.

[Damage comparison, 16 WIS: Conjure Animals deals 16.5 on average since it deals damage on your turn and almost certainly on the main target's turn, plus to secondary targets; this is 15.8, grants extra defenses and deals damage all at once]

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Thunderous Stride
Level 4 Transmutation (Ranger)

Casting Time: 1 Action
Range: Self
Components: V
Duration: Concentration, up to 10 minutes

You become so fast and nimble that suddenly halting your stride creates a deafening sonic boom. Until the spell ends, your Speed increases by 40 feet.

The first time on each of your turns that you move at least 20 feet in a straight line, immediately after that movement, one creature of your choice within 5 feet of you takes 4d12 + your spellcasting ability modifier (minimum of 1) Thunder damage.

A creature can take this damage only once on each of your turns.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 5th level or higher, the bonus to your Speed increases by 10 feet and the damage increases by 1d12 when cast with a 5th level slot or higher.

[Damage comparison, 20 WIS: Conjure Woodland Beings should often deal damage off-turn to the single target you're in melee with (this spell is also thought for melee), say that's 75% of the cases, DPR expected is 31.5; this is 31]

I would like to know what's the general opinion about these features interactions:

• Using Portal Jump (that allows you to "spend an amount of movement" to teleport, but doesn't say "move" outright)
• Steady Aim, from lv3 Rogue

My reading, and I understand if it's contentious, is that the first feature doesn't make you outright move and since you do it before Steady Aim, and being used second, Steady Aim doesn't turn your Speed 0 until you use it, so you can activate the former.

By this I mean Extra Attack gives, well, an extra attack when you take the Attack action on your turn.

What if the Ranger lost the caveat in italic? When off turn, if you're taking the attack action (with the Ready action and I think that's it), you benefit from Extra Attack. A small perk of being a Ranger could be that you're better at being the one who gets ready at shooting the Dragon when it comes into range to breath fire >!and then die because you can't cast Absorb Elements, but that's a different story!<

(although it would be better worded as "on your turn and on a different turn if activated by the Ready action." so there's no doubt it's not meant to work with some other feature, it just so happens I don't think there are any for now)