Darkness Hunter (5e Subclass)

Darkness Hunter

Ranger Subclass

Darkness Hunter, they are experts at hunting and traveling at night, mortally attacking their enemies without their realizing it. Darkness and its greatest ally, in it you become a ruthless ranger.

Darkness Hunter Magic

Starting at 3rd level, you learn an additional spell when you reach certain levels in this class, as shown in the Darkness Hunter Spells table. The spell counts as a ranger spell for you, but it doesn't count against the number of ranger spells you know.

Forgotten Darkness Hunter Spells

Ranger Level	Spell
3th	druidcraft
5th	entangle
7th	darkness
11th	fear'
15h	greater invisibility

Night Hunter - LV3

You can give yourself a bonus to your initiative rolls equal to your Wisdom modifier.

To darkness and its ally, you become an incomparable hunter in it. Your walking speed increases by 5 feet. If you take the Attack action on your first turn in combat, you can make one additional weapon attack as part of that action.

Umbral Sight - LV3

At 3rd level, you gain darkvision out to a range of 60 feet. If you already have darkvision from your race, its range increases by 30 feet.

You are also adept at evading creatures that rely on darkvision. While in darkness, you are considered invisible to any creature that relies on darkvision to see you in that darkness.

Extra Attack - LV5

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

Improved Senses - LV7

You can see normally in darkness, both magical and nonmagical, darkvison range increases by 30 feet. In addition, in a dark place you gain the following benefits:

• Advantage on hearing-based Perception cheks. A +3 bonus to your Passive Wisdom (Perception).
• Advantage on Wisdom (Survival) checks.

Shadow Step - LV11

At 11th level, you gain the ability to step from one shadow into another. When you are in dim light or darkness, as a bonus action you can teleport up to 60 feet to an unoccupied space you can see that is also in dim light or darkness. You then have advantage on the first melee attack you make before the end of the turn.

Shadowy Dodge - LV15

Starting at 15th level, you can dodge in unforeseen ways, with wisps of supernatural shadow around you. Whenever a creature makes an attack roll against you and doesn't have advantage on the roll, you can use your reaction to impose disadvantage on it. You must use this feature before you know the outcome of the attack roll.

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