Hunter (Bloodborne) (5e Class)

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Hunter (Bloodborne)

The hunt begins anew

Throughout history, there are times that the common man is put at risk of extinction, when it is no longer safe to leave your home, when monstrous beasts roam the lands, devouring all they come into contact with, When the fiends are free to work openly, no longer afraid of the humanoid races, When prayers to the gods fall on deaf ears. Some people with nothing left to lose choose to fight the monsters back, most die, but some become chosen by a strange being that gives them immense power, but at what cost and towards what end?

Creating a Hunter

What drove you to the hunt? Protecting a loved one? Seeking vengeance for their death? Boredom? Whatever your motive, you now hunt immensely powerful creatures, how does this effect your character? do they want help on their hunts? If so, are your "hunting partners" valued allies? or are they simply another wall of meat between you and your prey?

Quick Build

You can make a Hunter quickly by following these suggestions. First, either Strength or Dexterity should be your highest ability score, followed by Constitution or Wisdom if you plan to follow either the radiance or milkweed oaths. Second, choose the folk hero background. Third, choose option B, option B, option A then option A.

Class Features

As a Hunter you gain the following class features.

Hit Points

Hit Dice: 1d8 per Hunter level
Hit Points at 1st Level: 1d8 + Constitution modifier
Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d8 (or 5) + Constitution modifier per Hunter level after 1st

Proficiencies

Armor: Light armor, medium armor
Weapons: Simple weapons, martial weapons
Tools: Tinkerers Tools
Saving Throws: Dexterity, Wisdom
Skills: Choose two from Athletics, Acrobatics, Stealth, Investigation, Insight, Perception and Survival

Equipment

You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:

• (a) chain mail or (b) leather armor
• (a) a martial weapon or (b) a simple weapon and a shield
• (a) a shortbow, and 20 arrows or (b) 6 javelins
• (a) a dungeoneer's pack or (b) an explorers pack

Table: The Hunter

Level	Proficiency Bonus	Features	Insight	Quickstep
1st	+2	Fighting Style, Insight	1	0
2nd	+2	Rally	1	0
3rd	+2	Hunters Oath	1	0
4th	+2	Ability Score Improvement	1	0
5th	+3	Extra Attack	1	0
6th	+3	Quickstep	2	1
7th	+3	Oath Feature	2	1
8th	+3	Ability Score Improvement, Evasion	2	1
9th	+4	Improved Insight	2	1
10th	+4	Oath Feature	2	2
11th	+4	Extra Attack (2)	3	2
12th	+4	Ability Score Improvement	3	2
13th	+5	Brutal Critical	3	3
14th	+5	—	3	3
15th	+5	Oath Feature	4	3
16th	+5	Ability Score Improvement, Give Them No Inch	4	3
17th	+6	Brutal Critical (2 Dice)	4	4
18th	+6	Oath Feature	4	4
19th	+6	Ability Score Improvement	4	4
20th	+6	Quickening	5	5

Fighting Style

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

Great Weapon Fighting

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 re-roll 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

When you engage in two-weapon fighting, you can add your ability modifier to the damage of the second attack. Also you do not take penalties from dual wielding

Insight

Your Expertise for tracking and hunting is only matched by a select few, and few can also match your knowledge of your quarry. You can use your insight to gain advantage on a roll to track or identify a Aberration, Fiend, Monstrosity, or Undead. You need to finish a long rest before you can use this feature again. You gain additional uses of this feature at levels 6, 11, 15, 20.

Improved Insight

From 9th level onward, you can also use this feature to gain advantage on a saving throw against an effect caused by a Aberration, Fiend, Monstrosity or Undead.

Blood Of The Hunt

From 2nd level onward you are consumed by bloodlust in the midst of battle, as long as the blood keeps flowing, you will endure any wound. Once per long rest you can imbue a weapon with the blood of a fiend, monstrosity, aberration or undead. each type of blood allows your sword to glow a different colour when you use its feature. black for undead, white for aberrations, blue for monstrosities and red for fiends This light extends 5 feet of bright light then an extra 5 feet of dim light.

Undead: Once per turn, when you hit a hostile creature that has caused damage to you on its last turn, you regain hit points equal to your proficiency bonus. This feature can only be used a number of time equal to your damage modifier on the weapon that was imbued by the blood of an undead. Monstrosity: Once of each of your turns you can become the prey. This transformation allows you to gain the stats of the monster that was slain but dived by half. you gain their features and AC but you keep your ability scores and features gained by this class which are not halved. Fiend: you can cast 1 level 1 spell from the warlock spell list using your weapon as your spellcasting focus. Aberrations: once on each of your turns as a bonuses action you can gain a third eye. This third eye has darkvision equal to 20 feet and allows you to once per short rest gain advantage on a perception check against a creature that is hidden.

This appearance may be considered scary by some but that is the price you shall pay, no one will reward your heroism, no one will read about you in the history books, There is only the hunter and their prey, which are you? (you gain the ability to use this voice line but only once per long rest as it takes time for you to muster up all your big hunter energy)

Hunters Oath

At 3rd level, you chose a Hunters Oath, an ideology that gives you some measure of comfort during the long nights of the hunt. Choose between the Corruption, Radiance, Impurity or Beasts Embrace, all of which are detailed at the end of the class description. Your choice grants you features at 3rd and again at 7th, 10th, 15th and 17th level.

Ability Score Increase

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

Extra Attack

Starting at 5th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn. The number of attacks increases to three at 11th level in this class.

Quickstep

By 6th level your experience in fighting has taught you that it is sometimes better to exert yourself than to trust your Armor. As a reaction to being attacked, you can use this feature to move 5 feet and cause that attack to automatically miss, this movement does not provoke opportunity attacks. This action can only be done once per long rest and you regain all expended When you finish a long rest. uses of this feature increase at levels 10, 13, 17 and 20. only increasing by 1.

Quickening

Additionally at 20th level after using your quickstep feature, all attacks have disadvantage until the start of your next turn

Evasion

Starting at 8th level, you have learned better techniques for avoiding death on the hunt. When you are subjected to an effect that allows you to make a dexterity saving throw to take half damage, you instead take no damage if you succeed on the saving throw, and only half damage if you fail

Brutal Critical

Beginning at 13th level you have learned to attack quickly and brutally, their is no time for mercy on your hunt, you can roll one additional weapon damage die when determining the extra damage for a critical hit with a melee attack. this increases to two additional dice at 17th level

Give Them No Inch

Starting at 16th level through sheer force of will you can keep your body moving long after any normal person would have died, As a reaction to falling unconscious, you can become immune to all healing and gain temporary hit points equal to your maximum health, as long as at least one of these hit points remains, you are not considered unconscious, at the end of your turn, you take 5d10 necrotic damage that ignores resistance and immunity and does not trigger rally. after all of the temporary hit points are lost, you fall unconscious due to the immense stain you just put on your body, you also gain 4 levels of exhaustion and are no longer immune to healing effects. You can use this feature once per long rest and regain the use of this feature after said long rest.

Distorted

The followers of corruption believe that power is worth any price, and only by becoming more powerful can they hope to triumph over their prey, this doesn't go over well with most people, especially the followers of radiance, who have declared a holy war against the followers of corruption. followers of this oath start to dream of a lonely queen sitting on a bloodstained throne after dedicating themselves to it for a couple weeks.

Blood Dregs

Starting at 3rd level, you start seeing horrible things in the blood of fallen humanoids, these "blood dregs" look to all others like coagulated blood but you know the truth, this is the path to more power. you can consume a blood dreg as an action on your turn, after doing so you gain temporary hit points equal to your Hunter level. you can use this feature once, after which you need to spend 10 minutes mutilating the corpse of a humanoid to regain the use of this feature. also upon gaining this feature you may become tempted to lick the blood off your sword when suing your blood of the hunt feature so you must make a wisdom saving through again a dc of 13 in order to steal yourself from licking your own sword. This however gets harder and harder the longer you fight increasing the DC by 2 each round of combat after 4 rounds. at the 10th round you gain a bite feature similar to the lizard folk feature but there just one problem. When you use the bite attack which you must do on every turn as a bonus action it has to be at the closest creature even your fellow hunters. while in this state you are dreaming of dancing with the lonely queen. after the battle has subsided then you return to normal with the DC reset. (note, generally people react poorly to a person eating blood so don't even try to explain, they don't understand you no one will but your queen)

Toxic Blood

Beginning at 7th level, you can coat a melee weapon with your toxic blood as an action on your turn, this requires you to spend a hit die, but no hit points are gained from this, the buff lasts for 1 minute and during that time that weapon deals an additional 1d4 necrotic damage, this is improved to 1d6 at 10th level and 1d8 at 15th level. Additionally any creature that ingests your blood is poisoned for 1 minute, they can make a Constitution saving throw on each of their turns to end the effect, the DC of which is equal to 8 + your proficiency + your Constitution modifier.

Improved Blood Dregs

Starting at 10th level, whenever you use your action to consume a blood dreg you can additionally spend a hit die as part of the same action, after spending a hit die in this way roll the hit die, you regain hit points equal to the result plus your constitution modifier.

Improved Critical

Starting an 10th level, your attacks score a critical hit on a roll of 19 or 20

Blood Rapture

At 17th level after scoring a critical hit with a melee attack you regain the use of your blood dreg feature.

Radiance

Followers of radiance have the power of the gods during the hunt, whether it is sheer willpower or a sign that we were not alone is up to debate, regardless the followers of radiance and corruption are at war and will not work together. The followers of radiance begin dreaming of a king sitting on a frozen throne

Gift Of The Gods

you gain the Spellcasting of that of a warlock of the Celestial Patron with all the normal rule.

The Good Blood

Starting at 7th level, your blood has been imbued with healing magic, whenever you would gain hit points from a class ability or spell, you gain that many hit points plus your Constitution modifier.

Warrior Of Light

Starting at 10th level, your weapons have been imbued with the righteous flame. Once on each of your turns when you hit a creature with a melee weapon attack, you can cause the attack to deal an extra 1d8 fire damage to the target. This is improved to up to twice a turn at level 17.

Purity Of Blood

starting at 15th level, when you cast a spell of 1st level or higher that restores hit points to a creature other than you, you regain 2 hit points + the extra points you receive from your The Good Blood feature. Additionally, from 15th level onward, you can choose that the damage dealt by your Warrior Of Light is radiant instead of fire

Martyrdom

Beginning at 17th level, whenever you use the class feature Give Them No Inch, you gain the ability to cast either Imprisonment or Power word kill on your turn with no material components or spell slot requirements, however, when you cast either of these spells using this feature on a target successfully, you are also subjected to their effects..

Impurity

Followers of impurity see corruption everywhere, they still partake in the hunt, but they also focus their attention to those that have been changed by the passage of the beasts, those that if left to their own devices could become far worse then the beasts we fight. followers of Impurity start having nightmares of a legion of chittering insects consuming the world.

Hunter Of Vermin

When you choose this oath at 3rd level you can use your Insight class feature on humanoid creatures. you also gain proficiency in investigation. additionally, after killing a evil or possessed humanoid, you can find a vermin on their corpse, no other creature can see these vermin, but you can crush them to gain additional features as you level up as described later in this class. level 7: The line between good and evil maters not anymore, they are all corrupted and must be cleansed of all impurity, they are vermin.

Scent Of Evil

From 7th level onward, as long as you have crushed at least 10 vermin, you can spend a use of your Insight feature to cast "detect thoughts" with no spell slot requirements and no material components needed. Additionally, you gain proficiency in torturers tools.

Hear no Evil

Starting at 10th level, as long as you have crushed at least 20 vermin, you are immune to the charmed condition.

See No Evil

Starting at 15th level, as long as you have crushed at least 30 vermin, you can cast banishing smite as a bonus action on your turn, with no spell slots or material resources spent. after using this feature, you must finish a long rest before using this feature again.

Speak No Evil

starting at 17th level, as long as you have crushed at least 50 vermin you can cast divine word as an action on your turn, requiring no material components and expending no spell slots. you regain the use of this feature after a long rest

Beast`s Embrace

To be a follower of beasts embrace is to have failed, your bloodlust has already consumed you, for you have the blood of an innocent on your hands, your barely held together notions of being a hero have failed you, all you have left is the thrill of the hunt. (note, beasts embrace per the Dm's approval may be used as a sort of oath breaker paladin type archetype, used for when a hunter goes to far in their bloodlust and has killed innocent people, there is no going back to another oath afterwards, you must find redemption in the good you can do in the meantime)

Form Of The Beast

Starting when you choose this oath (or this oath is chosen for you) at 3rd level, you start to resemble more and more a monstrous beast, you gain a number of maximum hit points equal to your level, and each time you level up you gain 1 additional maximum hit point. Additionally as an action you can undergo a beastly transformation and become one of the following, werewolf, vampire or zombie each with differing features as you slay more beasts. starting at level 3 should you choose the werewolf you your transformation turns you into a wolf humanoid. you gain 5 extra feet of movement, +1 ac if you are wearing light armour and as a bonus action you can use a weapon you are holding in your month and count as 2-wepon fighting. This means you can use weapons to fight but the 3 third attack costs an bonus action on your next turn meaning you can only do this one per 2 turns. note must write vampire and zombie next

The transformations lasts for 30 minutes and you can use the transformation a number of time equal to your profiency bonus. you regain all expended uses on a long rest as you recreate and reflect on what foul beats you have become, you reflect on who even is the monster now and how easily the line between hunter and hunted can be blurred.

Claws Of The Beast

From 7th level onward, your hands start to grow into grotesque claws, you deal 1d4 + your Strength modifier on unarmed attacks, the unarmed attack damage die improves to 1d6 at 10th level, 1d8 at 15th level, and 1d10 at 17th level. these claws count as weapons with which you have proficiency in. (and no you may not eat your claws for the werewolf)

Feral Frenzy

Starting at 10th level, whenever you make the attack action on your turn, you can imbue your fighting spirt of the hunt into it and pour some of your lifeforce as well. If you hit with the attack then you can take 1d12 necrotic damage which cannot be healed until the ned of a long rest or by healing potions but dead an extra 1d10 blood damage. (must make that a feature)

Monstrous Hide

Beginning at 15th level, you have fully transformed into a beast, you are considered a large creature, you are considered a monstrosity you have disadvantage on all charisma checks used on humanoid creatures except for intimidation, which you have advantage towards humanoid targets. Additionally, you have a unarmoured defence of 10 + your proficiency bonus + your Dexterity modifier, which is improved to 10 + your proficiency + your Dexterity modifier + your Constitution modifier at 17th level, however, you can no longer use tools, weapons or armor made for humanoid creatures (per the dm's approval, you may be able to get some custom made gear that does still work) as your body is to large and deformed to wear normal armor, your claws cannot grasp tools or weapons that are made for much smaller creatures.

Full Transformation

Starting at 17th level, you don't even resemble a human, people run at the sight of you and you have become every bit a monster that would be marked for the hunt, you are considered a huge creature, however, the bloodlust has almost completely consumed you, and you can only remain in control of your character for an number of hours equal to 4 times your Intelligence modifier (maximum of 12), during the time that you are not in control, you are a beast under the control of the Dm with the mental stats of a wolf. (note, it may be time to give up your character, talk to the Dm if you want a lighter sentence, but remember that bloodlust fuels your every action, and that at this point, you are little more than a beast)

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