Expert Tracker

While tracking other creatures, you also learn their exact number, their sizes and roughly how long ago it was that they passed through the area.

Forest Friend

You gain the trust of a tiny animal friend. You both share a basic understanding, though the animal is still subject to its natural instincts. Your animal must be a tiny CR 0 beast, and (when relevant) it shares your pool of actions.

If your animal friend is reduced to 0 hit points, you can spend one hit die or suffer a level of exhaustion to reduce it to 1 hit point instead. If your animal friend leaves or dies, you can spend time during a long rest to try bonding with another creature from the surrounding environment.

Unless abused, this friend will have some degree of DM protection.

Many Friends: You may take this trait multiple times, gaining an additional animal friend each time.

In the Corner of My Eye

Even when you are engaged in another activity while traveling (such as foraging, navigating, or tracking), you remain alert to danger.

Light in the Dark

You know how to make your lighting supplies last a little longer in the dark. You have skill with crafting simple candles or torches, and these crafted lights burn for twice as long as normal.

Light Sleeper

While asleep, you are still half-aware of what’s happening around you. You may still roll Perception checks while sleeping, but with disadvantage.

Make a Meal out of Everything

You may roll with advantage when attempting to cook a simple meal with basic or improvised ingredients.

Master of Your Environment

When you benefit from at least half cover, you also gain an additional +1 bonus to your AC and Dexterity saving throws. When you create cover, you extend this bonus to any creature who benefits from the cover.

Natural Sense of Direction

When travelling outside, you may make navigation checks as if you had a map and compass.

Shortcut to Mushrooms

When you forage, you find twice as much food or water as you normally would.

Side Slide

When you willingly move through a slippery terrain such as snow or ice for instance, your walking speed increases by 10 ft and you have advantage on any Dexterity checks imposed by that terrain.

There is Always Another Path

Difficult terrain doesn’t slow your group’s travel during long journeys.

Walk Softly and Carry a Big Bow

If you are traveling alone, you can move stealthily at a normal pace.

Relentless Pursuit

You can use the Dash action as a bonus action on your turn. Also, you have advantage on Constitution checks and saving throws to avoid exhaustion during chases and forced marches.

Relentless Wanderer

You have advantage on any saving throw made to avoid non magical traps or natural hazards, as well as resistance to any damage from non magical traps or natural hazards. You don’t gain this benefit if you are incapacitated, grappled, or restrained.

Swift Tracker

You can track other creatures while traveling at a fast pace, and you can move stealthily while traveling at a normal pace.

Tireless

As an action, you can give yourself a number of temporary hit points equal to your Edge Die + your Wisdom modifier. You can use this special action a number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

In addition, whenever you finish a long rest, you can always reduce your exhaustion level by 1.

Fade Away

You can use a bonus action to magically become invisible, along with any equipment you are wearing or carrying, until the start of your next turn.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and can regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest

Vanish

You can use the Hide action as a bonus action on each of your turns in combat. Also, you can’t be tracked by nonmagical means, unless you choose to leave a trail.

Eagle’s Eyes

You can see objects and creatures up to 1 mile away as though they were directly in front of you. When you are at least 120 ft above the ground, this range increases to 10 miles.

Feral Senses

You gain supernatural senses that help you fight creatures you can’t see. You have blindsight with a range of 10 ft. Within that range, you can effectively see anything that isn’t behind total cover, even if you’re blinded or in darkness.

Hound’s Snout

You can detect the scent of all creatures that passed through an area unless the area has been subject to light winds for 1 hour, moderate winds for 1 minute, or strong winds for 1 round. By following the scent trail, you can detect the exact path your quarry took.

Foe Slayer

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. You can choose to use this feature after the roll, but before any effects of the roll are applied.

Swift Hunter

On your first turn during combat, any of your attacks that hits a creature who has not yet acted is a critical hit.

Whirlwind

Once per turn, you can trade one of your attacks to do a whirlwind. When doing a whirlwind, you make one melee weapon attack against each creature within 5 ft of you.

Beast Conclave - The Beast Master has committed himself to working in partnership with an animal as his companion and friend.

Diabolist - Diabolist rangers roam the land, searching for tales of shades that hunt for the living, banshees that haunt the woods, or even helping ghosts that are not aware that they have passed in the first place.

Dungeon Delver - These individuals find themselves at home in the deepest catacombs and most perilous ancient ruins. They yearn for both the treasure promised by so many stories and the forgotten knowledge of lost civilizations.

Fey Hunter - A fey hunter specializes in eliminating menaces from the Fey Realms and resisting the many charms and deceptions of the fey.

Freerunner - A freerunner is supremely nimble and capable of crossing terrain as quickly as possible through a skilled combination of dashing, leaping, and nimbly climbing.

Gloomstalker - Gloom Stalkers are at home in the darkest places: deep under the earth, in gloomy alleyways, in primeval forests, and wherever else the light dims.

Herbalist Conclave - Herbalists have learned to extract the magical properties of plants and nature in order to create potent mixtures that can aid allies and hinder foes.

Horizon Walker - Rangers of the Horizon Conclave guard the world against threats that originate from other planes.

Hunter Conclave - A Hunter has accepted his place as a bulwark between civilization and the terrors of the wilderness.

Stalker - Stalkers serve as investigators, spies, informants, interrogators, and vigilantes. Unlike other rangers, they are just as at home in a crowded metropolis as in a wilderness setting.

Witch Hunter - You have dedicated yourself to hunting down creatures of the night and wielders of grim magic.

Healing Draught. This draught takes an action to drink or administer to another creature. The target regains hit points equal to two rolls of your Edge Die. This draught has no effect on undead or constructs.

Restorative Draught. This draught takes an action to drink or administer to another creature. Creatures that drink this draught is cured of either one disease or one condition afflicting it. The condition can be blinded, deafened, paralyzed, or poisoned. This draught has no effect on undead or constructs.

Quick Coating. As a bonus action on your turn, you can coat one melee weapon or up to five pieces of ammunition with a virulent toxin. The coating loses its potency at the end of your next turn. The next creature hit by a coated weapon must succeed on a Constitution saving throw against your Edge save DC or become poisoned by the toxin. At the start of each of the poisoned creature’s turns, it takes poison damage equal to your Edge Die. At the end of each of its turns, the creature can repeat the saving throw, ending the effect on a success.

Poison Bomb. As an action, you can throw this flask to a point up to 20 ft from you, shattering it on impact, releasing a small cloud of poison that disperses quickly. Each creature in a 5-foot-radius sphere centered on the point of impact must make a Constitution saving throw or take poison damage equal to your Edge Die, and become poisoned for one minute. The creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the condition on itself on a success. Holding one’s breath is ineffective against the poison, as it affects the nasal membranes, tear ducts, and other parts of the body.

Smoke Bomb. As an action, you can throw this flask to a point up to 20 ft from you, shattering it on impact. It creates a 10 ft radius sphere of smoke centered on the point of impact. The sphere spreads around corners, and its area is heavily obscured. It lasts for one minute or until winds (at least 5 miles per hour) disperses it.

Sludge Bomb. As an action, you can throw this flask to a point up to 20 ft from you, shattering it on impact. The ground in a 5 ft radius centered on that point becomes difficult terrain for one minute.

Giant Killer. When an adjacent Large or larger creature hits or misses you with an attack, you can use your reaction to attack that creature immediately after its attack, provided that you can see the creature.

Horde Breaker. Once on each of your turns when you make a weapon attack, you can make another attack with the same weapon against a different creature that is adjacent to the original target and within range of your weapon.

Volley. You can use your action to make a ranged attack against any number of creatures within 10 ft of a point you can see within your weapon’s range. You must have ammunition for each target, and you make a separate attack roll for each target.

Whirlwind Attack. You can use your action to make a melee attack against any number of creatures adjacent to you, with a separate attack roll for each target.

Evasion. You can nimbly dodge out of the way of certain area effects, such as a red dragon’s fiery breath or a lightning bolt 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.

Stand Against the Tide. When a hostile creature misses you with a melee attack, you can use your reaction to force that creature to repeat the same attack against another creature (other than itself) of your choice.

Uncanny Dodge. 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.

Ball bearings. As an item action, you can spill these tiny metal, glass, crystal, stone, or bone balls from their pouch to cover a level area 10 ft square. The first Large or smaller creature moving across the covered area must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or fall prone, taking 1 Edge Die of bludgeoning damage.

Caltrops. As an action, you can spread a single bag of caltrops to cover a 5 ft square area. The first creature that enters the area must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or stop moving and take 2 Edge Dice of piercing damage. Until the creature regains at least 1 hit point, its walking speed is reduced by 10 ft. A creature moving through the area at half speed makes the saving throw with advantage.

Flash Rods. As an action, you can place two rods connected by a thin wire on a flat surface. The first creature that passes between the rods trips the wire, making the rods flare up in an intensely bright light. The creature must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or be blinded until the end of the turn.

Oil Fountain. As an action, you can place this small metal cube attached to a pressure plate on the ground. The first creature that steps on the plate must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or be sprayed with a highly volatile substance. If the creature takes fire or lightning damage before the substance evaporates at the start of its next turn, it takes 1 Edge Die fire damage and must succeed on a Wisdom save to withstand the shock of being lit on fire. If it fails, it must use its reaction to move its movement speed in a random direction.

Portable Ice. As an action, you can spread a single bag of these compressed ice pellets to cover a 5 ft square area. The first creature that enters the area triggers the pellets, making them expand rapidly, forming a 20 ft tall ice pillar that immediately shatters. Any Large or smaller creatures in the area must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or be lifted by the pillar. Tiny creatures don’t trigger the pellets.

    – Special. If you are prepared for the effect, you can ready an action to jump of the pillar when reaching a sufficient height, effectively acting lika an elevator.

Screeching Sirens (soundproof container). As an action, you can place the brittle container on the ground. The first Small or larger creature that enters its 5 ft area causes the container to break, releasing the short-lived bugs inside it. The bugs are drawn to the nearest source of body heat, while emitting a high-pitched sound. Until the start of its next turn, the creature must succeed on a Charisma saving throw in order to cast a spell with verbal components.

    – Special. You need access to bugs normally found in the wild to collect enough of them to be efficient, so the DM may rule that a city, dungeon or similar restricts how many, if any, you can craft.

Snap trap. When you use your action to set it, this trap forms a saw-toothed steel ring that snaps shut when a creature steps on a pressure plate in the center. The trap is affixed by a heavy chain to an immobile object, such as a tree or a spike driven into the ground. A creature that steps on the plate must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or take 1 Edge Die of piercing damage and stop moving. Thereafter, until the creature breaks free of the trap, its movement is limited by the length of the chain (typically 3 ft long). A creature can use its action to make a Strength check, freeing itself or another creature within its reach on a success. Each failed check deals 1 Edge Die of piercing damage to the trapped creature.

    – Special. A snap trap is harder to place efficiently, so it can only be placed as an action, even with the Rabbit from a hat feature.

Sonic Sphere. As an action, you can place a small metal sphere on the ground. Highly sensitive to vibrations in the ground, the sphere will activate when the first creature enters its 5 ft area, creating a burst of thunderous sound, which can be heard 100 ft away. The creature must make a Constitution saving throw or take 2 Edge Dice thunder damage and be deafened until the end of its next turn.

Sneezing Powder Pellets. As an action, you spread a single bag of these hollow, lightweight husks filled with ground seeds to cover a 5 ft square. The first creature that enters the area must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or take 1 Edge Die of poison damage and spend its action sneezing violently.

Twitchers. As an action, you use a single bag of these tiny metal rods holding trace amounts of lightning energy to cover two 5 ft square areas. The first creature that enters an area must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or take 1 Edge Die of lightning damage from the small current running through them. A creature that fails this saving throw has disadvantage on the next attack it makes before the end of its next turn.

Backup Ammunition

Prerequisite: Woodworking - Bowyer

A seasoned bowyer knows that running out of arrows is often deadlier than any beast. You maintain a reserve of finely crafted ammunition, prepared for the moment it is needed most.

As an item action, you can bring out this reserve. For the next 10 minutes, you don’t need to track ammunition expended from attacks made with a bow. These arrows are hastily recovered materials, hidden caches, or pre-prepared shafts brought forth by your expertise, and they are destroyed after use and can’t be recovered.

Once you use this Edge, you can’t do so again until you spend at least 1 hour replenishing your reserve of arrows. This replenishment can be done during a long rest.

Beginning at 5th level, arrows supplied by this Edge count as magical. At 9th level, they gain a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls. This bonus becomes +2 at 13th level and +3 at 17th level.

Bear’s Endurance

Prerequisite: Survival skill

The wild is unforgiving, and only those who learn to endure its hardships survive. By steadying your breath, hardening your resolve, and drawing upon techniques learned from nature’s most resilient creatures, you can push your body beyond its normal limits.

As an action, you can bolster yourself with a surge of endurance. Choose one of the following benefits:

• Enduring Constitution. Gain advantage on Constitution checks and Constitution saving throws for 1 hour.

• Second Wind. Regain hit points equal to twice your Edge Die + your Ranger level.

• Relentless Vitality. For 1 minute, you gain temporary hit points equal to your Edge Die at the start of each of your turns.

You can use a benefit granted by this Edge, you can’t use that benefit again until you finish a long rest. Using an Edge Die to reset this Edge, resets all benefits.

At 5th level, when you use this Edge, you may activate two different benefits simultaneously. In addition, activating this Edge requires only a bonus action.

At 9th level, whenever you regain hit points using Second Wind, you also end one of the following conditions affecting you: blinded, deafened, poisoned, or stunned.

At 13th level, whenever you make a Constitution saving throw, you may roll your Edge Die and add the result to the save.

At 17th level, your endurance borders on the supernatural. The first time each day that you would be reduced to 0 hit points, you may expend an Edge Die to drop to 1 hit point instead.

Circle of Privacy

Prerequisite: Nature - Primal Magic skill

The oldest rangers speak of quiet places in the wild where predators pass by without noticing, where campfires give off little scent, and where even loud voices seem swallowed by the night. By performing a simple rite using salt, herbs, and natural tokens, you can call upon this ancient blessing of concealment.

By spending 10 minutes preparing a campsite, you may create a Circle of Privacy. The circle must be traced on the ground around a campsite or similar area using salt, ash, crushed herbs, or other natural materials. The circle can protect an area with a radius of up to 20 ft and remains for 8 hours.

While within the circle, sounds are dampened, scents are dispersed, and light is subtly muted by primal magic. Wisdom (Perception) checks made to detect creatures, food, light sources, or activity within the circle are made with disadvantage. This effect applies only to creatures and observations originating outside the circle.

The circle ends early if a creature deliberately breaks the boundary in a significant way, such as by digging through it, scattering it, or intentionally disrupting its markings.

You may maintain only one Circle of Privacy at a time.

At 5th level, creatures within the circle have advantage on Stealth checks and can’t be tracked by nonmagical means.

At 9th level, the circle conceals its occupants from magical observation. Creatures, objects, and activities within the circle can’t be perceived through magical scrying sensors, and divination effects that would reveal their location automatically fail.

At 13th level, long rests completed within the circle are exceptionally restorative. Creatures that finish a long rest within the circle gain temporary hit points equal to your Wisdom modifier + your proficiency bonus and have advantage on saving throws against fear until their next long rest.

At 17th level, the circle becomes a true sanctuary of the wild. Hostile creatures must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against your Edge save DC to willingly enter the circle. On a failure, the creature feels an overwhelming sense that something is wrong and won’t willingly cross the boundary for 1 hour.

Deepdelver

Prerequisite: Survival skill

The dark places of the world hold little fear for you. Through long journeys beneath mountains, within caverns, and among ancient tunnels, you have learned to navigate treacherous terrain where others would stumble blindly.

As an action, you adapt your senses and movements to underground surroundings for up to 1 hour, requiring concentration as though concentrating on a spell.

While underground, you have advantage on checks made to climb, balance, squeeze through passages, or otherwise traverse natural, unworked stone. In addition, you have advantage on checks made to detect unstable surfaces, hidden fissures, cave-ins, and other natural subterranean hazards.

Once you use this Edge, you can’t use it again until you complete a long rest.

At 5th level, you gain darkvision out to a range of 60 ft while this Edge is active. If you already possess darkvision, its range increases by 60 ft.

At 9th level, you gain advantage on Survival checks made underground, and you can always determine the direction of the nearest surface and the depth below it, provided a path to the surface exists.

At 13th level, difficult terrain created by natural stone, rubble, or uneven ground doesn’t cost you extra movement, and you gain a climbing speed equal to your walking speed while underground.

At 17th level, you gain blindsight to a range of 10 ft while underground.

Echoes of Death

Prerequisite: Nature skill

Death leaves marks upon both the body and the wild. Blood stains the earth, roots remember where they have fed, and the final moments of a creature’s life linger like faint echoes for those who know how to listen.

By spending 1 minute examining a corpse, you can learn the creature’s apparent cause of death, the approximate time of death, and whether magic, poison, disease, or an unnatural creature contributed to its demise.

At 5th level, you learn to commune with the lingering echoes of the dead. By touching a corpse that has been dead for no more than 24 hours and entering a trance, you relive up to the last 10 minutes of the creature’s life from its own perspective. While experiencing these memories, you are incapacitated. The vision ends at the moment of the creature’s death, at which point you awaken. Once this vision has been viewed, it can’t be viewed again from the same corpse.

At 9th level, you can determine the identities or descriptions of creatures that harmed the corpse you are communing with, even if they weren’t directly seen, by interpreting impressions left upon the body and surrounding area.

At 13th level, you can use this Edge on a corpse that has been dead for up to 7 days.

Emberheart

Prerequisite: Nature - Primal Magic skill

Some rangers forge pacts with the untamed powers of nature. By calling upon the spirit of elemental fire, they kindle an inner flame that races along their arrows, turning each shot into a burning brand of destruction.

As a bonus action, you invoke this Edge for up to 1 hour, requiring concentration as though concentrating on a spell. While this Edge is active, your weapon attacks deal additional fire damage equal to your Edge Die on a hit.

Once you use this Edge, you can’t use it again until you complete a long rest.

As your bond with elemental fire deepens, its power surrounds and protects you. At 5th level, while this Edge is active, you gain resistance to fire damage.

At 9th level, while this Edge is active, receiving fire damage does not break your concentration. In addition, any willing creature touching you gains the same resistance until the contact ends.

At 13th level, creatures that take fire damage from your attacks can’t benefit from being invisible until the start of your next turn.

At 17th level, Whenever you score a critical hit with this edge, flames erupt from the impact, dealing fire damage equal to your Edge Die to each creature of your choice within 10 ft of the target.

Field Remedy

Prerequisite: Herbalism skill

The wise hunters of old carried bundles of bitter roots and sharp-smelling herbs, knowing that a clear mind often meant the difference between life and death. With a pinch of these remedies and a few well-chosen words, you can drive away confusion, restore focus, and steel the body against further hardship.

As an item action, you can administer a restorative remedy to yourself or a creature within 5 ft. The target may immediately spend one of its Hit Dice and can end one of the following conditions affecting it: dazed, stunned, unconscious, or incapacitated due to alcohol or other nonmagical intoxicants.

Once you use this Edge, you must complete a short rest before using it again.

At 5th level, your remedies can cure deeper afflictions. When you use this Edge, you can also end one of the following conditions: blinded, deafened, paralyzed, or poisoned, or cure one disease affecting the target.

At 9th level, your remedies bolster the body against toxins. In addition to its other effects, the target gains resistance to poison damage and advantage on saving throws against poison for 1 hour.

At 13th level, your words and remedies can rally multiple allies. When you use this Edge, you may affect up to three creatures within 30 ft.

At 17th level, a creature affected by this Edge can end one additional condition or effect of your choice from among those that this Edge can remove.

Flame Sense

Prerequisite: Survival skill

A seasoned ranger learns to read the signs of fire long before its light can be seen. The scent of smoke upon the wind, the subtle shift of air currents, and instinct honed by countless nights in the wilderness allow you to pinpoint distant flames with uncanny accuracy.

By spending 1 minute focusing, you heighten your awareness of nearby fires for 1 hour.

While this Edge is active, you know the direction and approximate distance of every fire within 1 mile of you. You can also discern the relative size and intensity of each fire, allowing you to distinguish between a small flame, a campfire, a bonfire, or a spreading wildfire. This Edge doesn’t reveal the source of the fire or what it is consuming.

Natural barriers do not impede this sense, though fires completely enclosed by stone, metal, or other substantial structures may be impossible to detect at the GM’s discretion.

At 5th level, when you perceive a fire with this Edge, you can determine whether it is natural, accidental, deliberately created, or magical in origin.

At 9th level, you instinctively know the direction of the nearest safe route away from a fire, lava flow or similar spreading hazard.

At 13th level, the range of this Edge increases to 5 miles. You can also focus on a particular fire you have detected and gain a rough impression of how long it has been burning, as well as whether creatures are gathered around it.

At 17th level, your bond with flame becomes profound. While this Edge is active, you are immune to the blinded condition caused by smoke, ash, glare, or firelight, and you gain blindsight out to 30 ft through smoke, fog, and other airborne obscurants created by fire.

Ghostwalker

Prerequisite: Stealth skill

The oldest hunters know how to pass through the wilderness without disturbing it. Their ft leave few tracks, their movements blend with the rhythm of the land, and even the birds seem reluctant to announce their passing.

As an action, you invoke this Edge for up to 1 hour, requiring concentration as though concentrating on a spell.

While this Edge is active, you gain a +2 bonus to Stealth checks and checks made to avoid leaving tracks or signs of your passage.

Once you use this Edge, you can’t use it again until you complete a long rest.

At 5th level, a veil of primal concealment surrounds you and your companions. While the Edge is active, each creature of your choice within 30 ft of you gains a +10 bonus to Stealth checks, can’t be tracked except by magical means, and leaves behind no tracks or other traces of its passage.

At 9th level, the veil obscures those it protects from supernatural pursuit. Creatures affected by this Edge can’t be targeted by divination magic or perceived through magical scrying sensors.

At 13th level, creatures affected by this Edge also have advantage on Stealth checks.

At 17th level, the duration increases to 8 hours and the Edge no longer requires concentration.

Hunter’s Mark

Prerequisite: Survival - Tracking skill

Every hunter learns to pick a quarry from the herd, but master rangers can bind themselves to their prey through an ancient primal rite. Whether through instinct, determination, or the subtle guidance of nature’s spirits, you become unerringly aware of your chosen quarry and strike it with deadly precision.

As a bonus action, you mark one creature you can see as your quarry for up to 1 hour, requiring concentration as though concentrating on a spell. While this Edge is active, your weapon attacks deal additional damage equal to your Edge Die to the marked creature. In addition, you have advantage on checks made to locate, track or identify signs left by your quarry.

If the marked creature drops to 0 hit points before the effect ends, you can use a bonus action on a later turn to transfer the mark to another creature you can see.

Once you use this Edge, you can’t use it again until you complete a long rest.

Your bond with your quarry grows ever stronger. At 5th level, the duration increases to 8 hours.

At 13th level, the duration increases to 24 hours and you always know the direction of your marked quarry while it remains within 1 mile of you.

Hunter’s Pace

Prerequisite: Physique skill

A predator’s greatest weapon is not its claws or fangs, but its endurance. Experienced rangers learn how to pace their breathing, conserve their strength, and move with relentless determination, pursuing their quarry across rivers, mountains, and untamed wilderness without tiring. Through primal focus and sheer perseverance, you can push your body beyond the limits of ordinary travelers.

As a bonus action, you let out a hunting cry and enter a heightened state of focus for up to 1 hour, requiring concentration as though concentrating on a spell.

While this Edge is active, you have advantage on checks made to jump, climb, swim, or otherwise traverse difficult terrain. You also have advantage on saving throws against exhaustion and on ability checks made to resist or overcome the effects of difficult terrain.

In addition, your travel pace is treated as one category higher when determining overland movement, and nonmagical difficult terrain doesn’t cost you additional movement while traveling outside of combat.

Once you use this Edge, you can’t use it again until you complete a long rest.

At 5th level, your walking speed increases by 10 ft while this Edge is active, and standing from prone costs only 5 ft of movement.

At 9th level, you gain a climbing speed and swimming speed equal to your walking speed while this Edge is active, and you no longer have to concentrate.

At 13th level, while the Edge is active, your movement is unaffected by difficult terrain, and spells and other magical effects can neither reduce your speed nor cause you to be paralyzed or restrained. In addition, you can spend 5 ft of movement to automatically escape from nonmagical restraints, grapples or similar impediments.

Hunter’s Vigil

Prerequisite: Survival skill

The wilderness offers little mercy to those who let their guard down. Through years of enduring lonely nights, listening to the language of rustling leaves and distant howls, you have learned to rest with one part of your mind always awake. Even in darkness, your senses remain keen, ever watchful for danger.

When you begin a long rest, you can enter a watchful state that lasts for up to 6 hours. During this time, you remain fully aware of your surroundings and can stand watch without falling asleep. While in this state, you gain advantage on checks made to detect creatures, hazards or other disturbances.

In addition, time spent maintaining this vigil counts as light activity for the purpose of a long rest and doesn’t prevent you from gaining the benefits of that rest.

Once you use this Edge, you can’t do so again until you complete a long rest.

At 5th level, you can’t be surprised while maintaining a Hunter’s Vigil, and you add your proficiency bonus to initiative rolls made while the vigil is active.

At 9th level, your senses remain sharp even in darkness. While maintaining a Hunter’s Vigil, you gain darkvision out to 60 ft. If you already possess darkvision, its range increases by 60 ft.

At 13th level, creatures under your protection sleep more soundly. Allies who complete a long rest within 30 ft of you while you maintain a Hunter’s Vigil recover one additional expended Hit Die.

At 17th level, your awareness borders on the supernatural. While maintaining a Hunter’s Vigil, invisible creatures gain no benefit from invisibility against your Perception checks, and you always know the direction of any hostile creature within 60 ft of you that isn’t behind total cover.

Keeper of the Fallen

Prerequisite: Nature skill

The dead should rest, and the wise ranger knows that when they do not, something has gone terribly wrong.

As an action, you can perform a brief rite over a corpse or burial site. For the next 24 hours, you know if an undead creature comes within 30 ft of the warded remains. In addition, you have advantage on checks made to identify, track, or detect undead creatures and signs of their presence.

Once you use this Edge, you can’t use it again until you complete a long rest.

At 5th level, you learn the Rite of Returning. You can instead touch a corpse and entrust it to the wild. Soft fungal growths spread across the body, roots emerge from the earth, and nature reclaims the remains in a matter of seconds. Once returned in this way, the corpse can no longer be animated or transformed into an undead creature by any means short of a wish spell or divine intervention. This rite has no effect on undead creatures or living creatures.

At 9th level, you can determine whether a corpse was killed by undead, a curse, or another supernatural influence by examining it for 1 minute. You also learn how long ago the creature died and whether it rose as undead after death.

At 13th level, undead have disadvantage on ability checks made to track you by scent, sound, or supernatural means.

At 17th level, when you perform the Rite of Returning, all corpses of your choice within 30 ft are affected. In addition, undead must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against your Edge save DC to willingly approach within 10 ft of a corpse you have warded or returned.

Kindred Spirit

Prerequisite: Handle Animal skill

Your time in the wild has awakened an ancient kinship between you and the beasts of the land. Through instinct, emotion, and the primal essence that binds all living things, you can form a temporary bond with a trusted animal.

As an action, you can touch a Beast that is friendly toward you and forge a primal bond that lasts for up to 1 hour, requiring concentration. While the bond lasts, and the Beast remains within 1 mile of you, you and the Beast can exchange simple thoughts, intentions, and emotions. This communication isn’t language and can’t convey detailed information, but it is sufficient to coordinate actions and convey simple concepts.

While the bond persists, the Beast gains advantage on attack rolls against creatures within 5 ft of you that you can see.

Once you use this Edge, you can’t use it again until you finish a long rest.

As your bond with the Beast deepens, your senses begin to intertwine. At 5th level, while bonded, you can use your action to perceive through the Beast’s senses. Until you use another action to end the effect, you see through the Beast’s eyes and hear through its ears. While perceiving through the Beast’s senses, you gain the benefits of any special senses possessed by the Beast, but you are blinded and deafened with regard to your own surroundings.

At 9th level, the bond functions while the Beast remains within 5 miles of you.

At 13th level, when you perceive through the Beast’s senses, you remain aware of your own surroundings. You no longer become blinded or deafened while doing so.

At 17th level, the bond remains active as long as the Beast remains on the same plane of existence.

Nature’s Grasp

Prerequisite: Nature - Primal Magic skill

The wild remembers every seed, root, and thorn. By whispering an ancient invocation and scattering a handful of rose petals, you call upon primal forces to ensnare those who would escape your hunt.

As a bonus action, you invoke this Edge, which lasts for up to 1 minute and requires concentration as though concentrating on a spell. The next time before the effect ends that you fire an arrow from a bow, thorny vines erupt from the point where the arrow lands and lash out at the nearest creature within 5 ft of the point of impact. If there are multiple targets at equal distance, determine randomly.

The target must succeed on a Strength saving throw or become restrained until the effect ends. A Large or larger creature has advantage on this saving throw. While restrained, the creature takes 1d6 piercing damage at the start of each of its turns.

The vines instinctively seek living or undead creatures. A creature doesn’t benefit from being invisible when making the initial saving throw against this Edge, nor does invisibility allow a creature restrained by the vines to escape their grasp.

A restrained creature, or another creature within reach of it, can use an action to make a Strength check against your Edge save DC. On a success, the vines are torn apart and the effect ends.

Once you use this Edge, you can’t use it again until you complete a short or long rest.

As your bond with the wild deepens, the vines answer your call with greater vigor. At 5th level, the vines grow thicker and more vicious, increasing the piercing damage to 2d6.

At 9th level, the vines spread farther from the point of impact, seeking up to two creatures within 10 ft of the point of impact. Each creature must make its own Strength saving throw or become restrained by the vines. The piercing damage increases to 3d6.

At 13th level, the damage increases to 4d6 and the vines can spread to up to three creatures within 10 ft.

At 17th level, the damage increases to 5d6 and the vines can spread to up to four creatures within 10 ft.

Nature’s Remedy

Prerequisite: Herbalism skill

The wild is filled with hidden cures for those who know where to look. Rangers learn to recognize healing herbs beneath tangled roots, soothing moss upon ancient stones, and restorative plants overlooked by less experienced travelers. Through knowledge passed down by seasoned hunters and countless seasons spent among the untamed lands, you can craft remedies that ease pain, knit flesh, and restore vigor.

As an action, you can apply a remedy to yourself or a creature you can touch. The target regains hit points by rolling a number of Edge Dice equal to your proficiency bonus

You can use this Edge a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Otter’s Grace

Prerequisite: Swimming skill

Otters are among the most agile swimmers in the wild, gliding effortlessly through swift currents and icy waters alike. By invoking a simple primal rite, you call upon their fluid grace and tireless breath.

As an action, you invoke this Edge upon yourself for up to 1 hour, requiring concentration as though concentrating on a spell.

While this Edge is active, you have advantage on checks made to swim, and the amount of time you can hold your breath is doubled.

Once you use this Edge, you can’t use it again until you complete a long rest.

At 5th level, you gain a swimming speed equal to your walking speed while this Edge is active.

At 9th level, you can breathe underwater while the Edge is active.

At 13th level, attacks made against you while you are underwater are made with disadvantage unless the attacker also has a swimming speed.

At 17th level, your swimming speed increases by 10 ft, and you have resistance to cold damage while submerged in water.

Stonehide

Prerequisite: Physique - Tolerance

The mountains endure storms, the forest survives fire, and the oldest trees weather the passage of centuries. By drawing upon the patient strength of the earth, you can harden your body against harm.

As a bonus action, you invoke this Edge for up to 1 hour, requiring concentration as though concentrating on a spell. While this Edge is active, you gain temporary hit points equal to twice your ranger level and have advantage on saving throws against being moved against your will, knocked prone, or grappled.

Once you use this Edge, you can’t use it again until you complete a long rest.

At 5th level, you gain a +1 bonus to AC while this Edge is active.

At 9th level, your skin hardens like bark and stone. You gain resistance to damage from nonmagical difficult terrain, environmental hazards, and natural hazards determined by the GM.

At 13th level, your flesh becomes as enduring as bedrock. You gain resistance to nonmagical bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage while this Edge is active.

At 17th level, when you are reduced to 0 hit points while this Edge is active, you can instead drop to 1 hit point. Once this effect occurs, the Edge immediately ends.

Storm Dancer

Prerequisite: Acrobatics skill

The storm never stands still. It circles, strikes, and fades before its prey can react. Rangers who master this Edge learn to move with the fury of the wind, turning speed and momentum into deadly force.

As a bonus action, you invoke this Edge for up to 1 minute, requiring concentration as though concentrating on a spell. While this Edge is active, your movement doesn’t provoke opportunity attacks. In addition, once on each of your turns, when you move at least 10 ft before making a melee weapon attack, that attack deals an additional damage equal to your Edge Die.

Once you use this Edge, you can’t use it again until you complete a long rest.

At 5th level, your speed increases by 10 ft while this Edge is active.

At 9th level, while the Edge is active, whenever you hit a creature after moving at least 10 ft, you may push that creature up to 10 ft away from you.

At 13th level, while the Edge is active, whenever you move at least 20 ft before hitting a creature with a melee weapon attack, the target must succeed on a Strength saving throw against your Edge save DC or be knocked prone. Additionally you can use this edge three times between long rests.

At 17th level, you can become the eye of the storm. As an action while this Edge is active, choose up to five creatures you can see within 30 ft. You move like a gust of wind between them, making one melee weapon attack against each target. On a hit, the attack deals an additional 4d8 thunder damage. After making the final attack, you may move to an unoccupied space within 5 ft of any target you attacked and the spell ends.

Sunwise Eyes

Prerequisite: Perception skill

Years spent hunting beneath glaring skies and tracking prey across shimmering wastes have taught you how to protect your sight, as well as to recognize the telltale signs of heat shimmer, false shadows, and visual trickery.

During a short or long rest, you can prepare a shaded hood, soot markings, or similar visual aids. The preparation lasts until your next long rest.

While benefiting from this Edge, you are immune to being blinded by bright sunlight and have advantage on saving throws against effects that would blind using light, flame or intense color. In addition, you gain advantage on saves and checks made to see through visual deceptions such as mirages and illusions.

At 5th level, light obscurement caused by sunlight, smoke, haze, drifting ash, glare, or similar visual conditions doesn’t impose disadvantage on your Perception checks.

At 9th level, your instincts often detect deception before your mind understands it. When you first perceive an illusion, you may immediately make any saving throw associated with seeing through it, even if you have no reason to believe the illusion is not real.

At 13th level, your eye for deception becomes nearly instinctive. Whenever you succeed to disbelieve an illusion, you can point out its flaws to your allies. Until the start of your next turn, allied creatures within 30 ft have advantage on checks and saving throws made to see through the same illusion.

At 17th level, your sight pierces nearly all deception. Invisible creatures gain no benefit from invisibility against you.

Tempest Shot

Prerequisite: Nature - Primal Magic skill

The storm does not burn like fire nor linger like ice. It strikes in an instant, carrying the fury of thunderclouds and the brilliance of the summer sky. By calling upon primal storm spirits, you can turn your arrows into crackling lightning.

As a bonus action, you invoke this Edge for up to 1 hour, requiring concentration as though concentrating on a spell.

While this Edge is active, arrows fired from your bow transform into bolts of lightning. These attacks deal lightning damage instead of their normal damage type.

At any point while this Edge is active, you can choose to end it when you hit a creature with a bow attack. When you do so, the stored power of the storm is unleashed through the arrow. The attack deals an additional 2d6 lightning damage, and each creature within 5 ft of the target must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw against your Edge save DC or take the same amount of lightning damage.

Once you use this Edge, you can’t use it again until you complete a long rest.

At 5th level, the additional lightning damage increases to 3d6, and you can use this edge an additional time between each long rest. Using an Edge Die to recharge this Edge, recharges both uses.

At 9th level, you gain resistance to lightning damage while this Edge is active. In addition, any willing creature touching you gains the same resistance until the contact ends.

At 13th level, the additional lightning damage increases to 4d6, and creatures that fail the saving throw can’t take reactions until the start of their next turn.

At 17th level, the additional lightning damage increases to 5d6, and the lightning arcs to a second creature of your choice within 10 ft of the original target, dealing the same additional lightning damage.

Tracker’s Instinct

Prerequisite: Survival - Tracking skill

The wild is filled with signs for those who know how to read them. Broken twigs, disturbed earth, scattered seeds, and distant calls reveal the presence of creatures and plants long before they are found.

As an action, you can focus on a specific type of Beast or plant that you have seen before. For the next hour, you have advantage on checks made to track, locate, or identify signs left by that creature or plant.

Once you use this Edge, you can’t use it again until you complete a long rest.

At 5th level, you can listen to the voice of nature itself. When using this Edge, you may name or describe a specific kind of Beast or plant. You learn the direction and approximate distance to the nearest such creature or plant within 5 miles, if one exists within range.

At 9th level, you also learn the number of such creatures or plants within 1 mile of the nearest one.

At 13th level, you can focus on a specific creature familiar to you. For up to 1 hour, requiring concentration as though concentrating on a spell, you sense the direction of that creature while it remains within 1,000 ft of you. If the creature is moving, you also know the direction of its movement. Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you complete a long rest.

At 17th level, your 5th-level feature can locate all separate groups or specimens instead of only the nearest.

Twin Shot

Prerequisite: Dexterity 13+, proficiency with bows

Some hunters learn that a well-placed arrow is deadlier than a dozen wild swings. The greatest among them learn to loose multiple arrows in a single fluid motion, catching their prey off guard and striking before it can react.

When you take the attack action and are wielding a bow, you can use this Edge to nock and loose two arrows simultaneously. Choose two creatures within your weapon’s range that are no more than 10 ft apart. Make a separate attack roll against each target with advantage.

If either attack misses, the other attack is unaffected. These attacks otherwise function as normal ranged weapon attacks.

Once you use this Edge, you can’t use it again until you complete a short or long rest.

As your mastery of the bow grows, your arrows fly with astounding speed and precision. At 5th level, when you use this Edge, the attacks deal an additional 1d6 damage on a hit.

At 9th level, your arrows can briefly carry the fury of the hunt itself. Instead of making the normal attacks granted by this Edge, you may fire a single arrow into the air. The arrow fractures into a storm of spectral missiles that rain down in a 30-foot-radius. 20-foot-high cylinder centered no further than half your weapon range. Each creature in the area must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw against your Edge save DC or take 3d8 damage of the same type as your ammunition, or half as much damage on a successful save.

At 13th level, when using the normal version of this Edge, you can loose three arrows instead of two. Choose up to three creatures within your weapon’s range, each of which must be within 10 ft of at least one other chosen target. Make a separate attack roll with advantage against each target.

At 17th level, your spectral barrage deals 5d8 damage instead of 3d8, and your normal Twin Shot attacks deal an additional 2d6 damage on a hit.

Unnatural Awareness

Prerequisite: Perception skill

Years spent wandering the wilds have sharpened your instincts beyond ordinary senses. You can feel disturbances in the natural order, whether caused by magic, curses, or other unnatural influences. Animals grow restless, the air feels wrong, and your instincts warn you that something does not belong.

As an action, you open your senses to the subtle signs of the unnatural for up to 10 minutes, requiring concentration as though concentrating on a spell. Until the effect ends, you can sense disturbances in the natural order within 30 ft of you. When you detect such a disturbance, you can use your action to focus on it. You learn whether any visible creature, object, or area within range bears the mark of magic, or another supernatural influence. This Edge reveals only the presence of the effect, not its nature or origin.

Beginning at 5th level, while Unnatural Awareness is active and you focus on an unnatural influence, you can track its lingering traces. If the creature, object, or effect was present within the last hour, you perceive faint signs visible only to your heightened senses, allowing you to follow its trail at your normal travel speed. If you move at a faster pace, the trail is lost. Teleportation and similar effects leave no trail to follow.

Beginning at 9th level, while Unnatural Awareness is active, you can determine whether a creature or object is affected by a curse. With a successful Intelligence (Arcana) check, you can discern the curse’s nature and effects. This ability doesn’t function on artifacts.

At 13th level, your instincts grow sensitive enough to distinguish one disturbance from another. While Unnatural Awareness is active and you focus on a supernatural influence, you learn whether it is primarily magical, divine, fey, fiendish, undead, or cursed in nature.

At 17th level, the world can no longer easily hide its secrets from you. While Unnatural Awareness is active, invisible creatures, magically disguised creatures, and creatures transformed by magic register as unnatural influences, even if their true nature remains concealed.

Veil of the Wild

Prerequisite: Handle Animal skill

Experienced rangers learn to move through the wilderness without disturbing its natural rhythms. By masking their scent, softening their presence, and invoking ancient rites known to hunters and wardens, they can pass unnoticed among even the keenest beasts.

As an action, you may touch up to five willing creatures and shroud them in a primal veil for up to 1 hour, requiring concentration as though concentrating on a spell.

While under this veil, non-magical animals are unable to sense the warded creatures through sight, sound, scent, or other natural means. Such creatures behave as though the warded creatures are not present unless presented with obvious evidence of their existence.

The effect ends immediately for all affected creatures if any warded creature attacks a creature, casts a spell, touches an animal, or otherwise takes a hostile action.

Once you use this Edge, you can’t use it again until you complete a long rest.

At 5th level, affected creatures leave no scent trail detectable by Beasts or Monstrosities with an Intelligence score of 3 or lower.

At 9th level, the veil extends beyond the senses of ordinary animals. Beasts and Monstrosities with an Intelligence score of 3 or lower are affected by this Edge.

At 13th level, affected creatures gain resistance to damage caused by natural hazards, including thorns, stinging insects, poisonous plants, and similar environmental dangers determined by the GM. The wilderness itself seems to ignore those hidden beneath the veil.

At 17th level, affected creatures are regarded as part of the natural order itself. Beasts and Monstrosities with an Intelligence score of 3 or lower must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against your Edge save DC to willingly attack an affected creature, unless that creature has harmed them or their allies.

Voice of the Wild

Prerequisite: Handle Animal skill

The creatures of the wilderness speak in chirps, growls, scents, postures, and instincts. Through ancient woodland rites and long familiarity with the ways of beasts, you can bridge the gap between their understanding and your own.

As an action, you invoke this Edge for 10 minutes. During that time, you can comprehend and verbally communicate with Beasts.

A Beast’s knowledge is limited by its intelligence and experiences, but it can provide information about nearby locations, creatures, weather, food sources, and other events it has perceived within the last day. Communication is shaped by the Beast’s nature, and its answers may be simple, instinctive, or focused on matters important to it.

You can attempt to persuade a Beast to perform a simple favor that doesn’t place it in obvious danger. Whether the Beast agrees, and the extent of the favor it provides, is determined by the GM.

Once you use this Edge, you can’t use it again until you complete a long rest.

As your connection to the natural world deepens, beasts grow ever more willing to trust you. At 5th level, the duration increases to 1 hour.

At 9th level, you have advantage on Charisma checks made to influence Beasts while this Edge is active.

At 13th level, you can additionally communicate simple concepts with Monstrosities that have an Intelligence score of 3 or lower.

At 17th level, Beasts begin interactions with you as though their attitude were one step friendlier than normal.

Wild Empathy

Prerequisite: Handle Animal skill

You have learned to read the moods, postures, and instincts of wild animals, allowing you to calm them with food, patience, and practiced movements.

As an action, you can attempt to befriend a Beast that can see and hear you within 30 ft. You must offer food or otherwise demonstrate peaceful intent. The Beast must have an Intelligence of 3 or lower and must not be actively fighting you or your companions.

The Beast must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against your Handle Animal (CHA) check or become friendly toward you for 24 hours. While friendly, the Beast won’t attack you or your companions unless provoked, and it will tolerate your presence. The Beast isn’t under your control, and it won’t knowingly place itself in danger.

The effect ends early if you or one of your companions harm the Beast. Once a Beast succeeds on its saving throw against this Edge, it is immune to its effects for 24 hours.

In addition, you can entrust a friendly Beast with a simple message of up to twenty-five words. The Beast will attempt to deliver the message to a creature, location, or landmark familiar to it. The Beast won’t willingly enter obvious danger and abandons the task if unable to locate its destination within 24 hours.

At 5th level, you can target two Beasts when you use this Edge.

At 9th level, your understanding of beasts deepens. While a Beast is friendly toward you through this Edge, you can accurately interpret its recent experiences and observations. By spending 1 minute observing the Beast, you may learn information about locations, creatures, or events it has witnessed within the last 24 hours, as determined by the GM.

At 11th level, you can target three Beasts.

At 17th level, you can target four Beasts. Each Beast must be within 30 ft of you and able to see and hear you.

Wildsight

Prerequisite: Perception skill

The wilderness speaks through subtle movements: a bent blade of grass, a shifting branch, a ripple of moisture in the air. By opening your senses to the rhythms of nature, you can perceive what others overlook.

As an action, you invoke this Edge for up to 1 hour, requiring concentration as though concentrating on a spell.

While this Edge is active, nonmagical foliage doesn’t obscure your vision. You can see through undergrowth, dense vegetation, and similar natural plant life as though it weren’t there.

In addition, mist, fog, rain, snow, and other water-based forms of concealment don’t obscure your vision. Effects that rely on such concealment don’t grant benefits against your attacks or Perception checks, though any non-visual effects still apply. For example, a fog might still dampen sound, and a storm might still create difficult terrain.

Once you use this Edge, you can’t use it again until you complete a long rest.

At 5th level, half cover granted solely by foliage, mist, rain, snow, or similar natural concealment doesn’t apply against your ranged weapon attacks.

At 9th level, you can see through magical fog, mist, and plant growth created by spells of a level no higher than half your ranger level (rounded down).

At 13th level, difficult visibility caused by rain, snow, fog, vegetation, or natural darkness no longer imposes disadvantage on your Perception checks.

At 17th level, you gain advantage on attack rolls against creatures that rely on foliage, mist, or similar concealment to hide from you.

Windrunner

Prerequisite: Physique skill

The wind carries no burden, ignores all obstacles, and strikes without warning. By calling upon primal forces and matching your movements to the rhythm of the wild, you can move with unnatural swiftness for a brief time.

As a bonus action, you enter a heightened state of speed for up to 1 minute, requiring concentration as though concentrating on a spell.

While this Edge is active, your movement doesn’t provoke opportunity attacks. In addition, you can take the Dash action as a bonus action on each of your turns.

Once before the effect ends, you can unleash all of this gathered speed in a single burst. When you do so, until the end of your turn, your speed doubles, your jump distance doubles, and your AC increases by 2. You also gain advantage on one melee weapon attack roll made during this turn. If the attack hits, it deals an extra 1d8 damage.

At the end of the turn in which you unleash this burst, the Edge ends and the strain catches up to you. Until the end of your next turn, your speed is halved.

Once you use this Edge, you can’t use it again until you complete a long rest.

As your mastery of the wind grows, your bursts become ever more powerful. At 5th level, the bonus damage increases to 2d8.

At 9th level, the burst grants one additional weapon attack as part of the same Attack action.

At 13th level, the bonus damage increases to 3d8 and your speed isn’t halved after the effect ends.

At 17th level, the bonus damage increases to 4d8 and activating the burst no longer ends this Edge.

Winter’s Bite

Prerequisite: Wisdom 13+

Some rangers walk beneath winter skies and emerge forever changed. By calling upon the silent power of frost, you can shroud yourself in the chill of the frozen wilds, causing your arrows to strike with biting cold.

As a bonus action, you invoke this Edge for up to 1 hour, requiring concentration as though concentrating on a spell. While this Edge is active, your weapon attacks deal additional cold damage equal to your Edge Die on a hit.

Once you use this Edge, you can’t use it again until you complete a long rest.

As your bond with the spirits of winter deepens, their power strengthens your attacks and hardens your body against the cold. At 5th level, you gain resistance to cold damage while this Edge is active.

At 9th level, while this Edge is active, receiving cold damage does not break your concentration. In addition, any willing creature touching you gains the same resistance until the contact ends.

At 13th level, a creature damaged by the cold must succeed on a Constitution saving throw against your Edge save DC or be unable to take reactions until the start of its next turn

At 17th level, creatures that fail their saving throw against Winter’s Bite have their speed reduced to 0 until the start of their next turn.