ScuroNotte
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I have not played in many years. And when I did, it was always a Ranger. However, I am disappointed in some of the modifications they have made, so I tweaked some of them. Only the spell casting I am unsure of what to do so I am seeking guidance.
• 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.
Archery
You gain a +2 bonus to attack rolls you make with ranged weapons.DefenseWhile 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.
Great Weapon Fighting (Added)
When you roll a 1 or 2 on a damage die for an attack you make with a melee weapon that you are wielding with two hands, you can reroll the die and must use the new roll. The weapon must have the two-handed or versatile property for you to gain this benefit.
Two-Weapon Fighting (New)
When you engage in two-weapon fighting, you can add your ability modifier to the damage of the second attack. When combined with the Dual Wielder feat, the 3rd attack is part of attack action, not a bonus action.
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.The Spells Known column of the Ranger table shows when you learn more Ranger spells of your choice. Each of these spells must be o f 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.
Add 1st level Protection from Evil/Good and 3rd level Dispel Magic to Ranger’s Spell List.
Also Rename Swift Quiver to Swift Attack. The 2 extra attacks can be with either range or melee weapons.
Spell casting Ability
Wisdom is your spell casting ability for your ranger spells, since your magic draws on your attunement to nature. You use your Wisdom whenever a spell refers to your spell casting 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
This is where my uncertainty lies of what to do and the correct way of going about it.
Options for Spells:
A)Keep the number of spells known unchanged and add Archetype spells which do not count against spells known
Hunter
3rd Hunter’s Mark, Protection from Evil/Good
5th Find Traps, Hold Person
9th Tongues, Water Breathing
13th Freedom of Movement, Staggering Smite
17th Conjure Volley, Hold Monster
Beast Master
3rd Hunter’s Mark, Protection from Evil/Good
5th Beast Sense, Warding Bond
9th Conjure Animals, Revivify (Beast)
13th Stone Skin, Dominate Beast
17th Hold Monster, Swift Quiver (Attack)
OR
B)Spell CastingSpells Known of First Level or Higher 15 SPELLS KNOWN
Ranger Known — Spell Slots per Spell Level—Level
Spells 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th
1st - - - - - -
2nd 2 2 - - - -
3rd 3 3 - - - -
4th 3 3 - - - -
5th 4 4 2 - - -
6th 5 4 2 - - -
7th 5 4 3 - - -
8th 6 4 3 - - -
9th 6 4 3 2 - -
10th 7 4 3 2 - -
11th 8 4 3 3 - -
12th 8 4 3 3 - -
13th 9 4 3 3 1 -
14th 10 4 3 3 1 -
15th 11 4 3 3 2 -
16th 12 4 3 3 2 1
17th 13 4 3 3 3 1
18th 13 4 3 3 3 1
19th 14 4 3 3 3 2
20th 15 4 3 3 3 2
RANGER
Expertise (New)
At first level, your proficiency for the Survival skill is doubled. You can’t double this proficiency again regardless if another skill, feat, or ability allows you to do so.Expertise (New)
Creature/Humanoid Lore (Favored Enemy-Name Change)
Beginning at 1st level, you have significant experience studying, tracking, hunting, and even talking to a certain type of creature/humanoid. Choose a type: aberrations, beasts, celestials, constructs, dragons, elementals, fey, fiends, giants, monstrosities, oozes, plants, or undead. Alternatively, you can select two races of humanoid (such as dwarves, and orcs). You have advantage on Wisdom (Survival) checks to track them, 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 them, if they speak one at all. You choose one additional creature/humanoid lore, as well as an associated language, at 6th and 14th level. As you gain levels, your choices should reflect the types of creatures/humanoids you have encountered on your adventures.
Natural Explorer (Change)
You are particularly familiar with one type of natural environment and are adept at traveling and surviving in such regions. Choose two types of favored terrains: arctic, coast, desert, forest, grassland, mountain, swamp, the Underdark, or urban. 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. You choose additional favored terrain types at 6th and 10th level.While traveling for an hour or more in 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.
Primeval Awareness (Change)
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. You do know the general direction. You can use this feature a number of times equal to 1 + your Wisdom modifier, minimum 1. When you finish a short or long rest, you regain all expended uses.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.Fighting Style (Change)
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.DefenseWhile 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.
Great Weapon Fighting (Added)
When you roll a 1 or 2 on a damage die for an attack you make with a melee weapon that you are wielding with two hands, you can reroll the die and must use the new roll. The weapon must have the two-handed or versatile property for you to gain this benefit.
Two-Weapon Fighting (New)
When you engage in two-weapon fighting, you can add your ability modifier to the damage of the second attack. When combined with the Dual Wielder feat, the 3rd attack is part of attack action, not a bonus action.
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 non-magical difficult terrain costs you no extra movement. You can also pass through non-magical 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.Beginning at 5th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.
Land’s Stride
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 (Change)
Starting at 14th level, you can use the Hide or Dash actions as a bonus action on your turn. Also, you can’t be tracked by non-magical 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 (Change)
Once on each of your turns, you can add your Wisdom modifier to your attack or damage roll to an attack you make against ANY FOE.Spell Casting
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. See chapter 10 for the general rules of spell casting and chapter 11 for the ranger spell list.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.The Spells Known column of the Ranger table shows when you learn more Ranger spells of your choice. Each of these spells must be o f 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.
Add 1st level Protection from Evil/Good and 3rd level Dispel Magic to Ranger’s Spell List.
Also Rename Swift Quiver to Swift Attack. The 2 extra attacks can be with either range or melee weapons.
Spell casting Ability
Wisdom is your spell casting ability for your ranger spells, since your magic draws on your attunement to nature. You use your Wisdom whenever a spell refers to your spell casting 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
This is where my uncertainty lies of what to do and the correct way of going about it.
Options for Spells:
A)Keep the number of spells known unchanged and add Archetype spells which do not count against spells known
Hunter
3rd Hunter’s Mark, Protection from Evil/Good
5th Find Traps, Hold Person
9th Tongues, Water Breathing
13th Freedom of Movement, Staggering Smite
17th Conjure Volley, Hold Monster
Beast Master
3rd Hunter’s Mark, Protection from Evil/Good
5th Beast Sense, Warding Bond
9th Conjure Animals, Revivify (Beast)
13th Stone Skin, Dominate Beast
17th Hold Monster, Swift Quiver (Attack)
OR
B)Spell CastingSpells Known of First Level or Higher 15 SPELLS KNOWN
Ranger Known — Spell Slots per Spell Level—Level
Spells 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th
1st - - - - - -
2nd 2 2 - - - -
3rd 3 3 - - - -
4th 3 3 - - - -
5th 4 4 2 - - -
6th 5 4 2 - - -
7th 5 4 3 - - -
8th 6 4 3 - - -
9th 6 4 3 2 - -
10th 7 4 3 2 - -
11th 8 4 3 3 - -
12th 8 4 3 3 - -
13th 9 4 3 3 1 -
14th 10 4 3 3 1 -
15th 11 4 3 3 2 -
16th 12 4 3 3 2 1
17th 13 4 3 3 3 1
18th 13 4 3 3 3 1
19th 14 4 3 3 3 2
20th 15 4 3 3 3 2
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