Magi Hunter (5e Subclass)
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Magi Hunter[edit]
Ranger Subclass
Magi hunters are trackers and warriors aid by the magic of old, who were trained with special old magic techniques to engage any sort of magic user. Their abilities are so dangerous that even the wielder itself would get hurt, has causes a repulsion by other communities and magic user society. While they might not be able to win a one on one fight against a barbarian or a fighter, they most certainly could defeat a wizard or a sorcerer, even though the magic user's power and level are above theirs. Magi hunters turn the tide against the unreal and the magical by blood and soul. In time both the old magic wielder and the hound will simultaneously level up together.
Magi Hunter Magic[edit]
At 3rd level, you have special training to deal with threats from creatures that can use magic and aid you in your journey, in addition to your normal ranger training. Your skills with this art grants you access to certain spells. When you reach certain levels in this class, you gain access to the spells listed for that level in the Magi Hunter Spell table. Once you gain access to all of these spells, you always have it prepared, and it doesn’t count against the number of spells you can prepare each day or your known spells. If you gain access to a spell that doesn’t appear on the ranger spell list, the spell is nonetheless a ranger spell for you. You can cast it for free once a day, if you cast it a second time on the same day you need to use a spell slot. Cantrip will be gained at level 3.
| Ranger Level | Spells |
|---|---|
| Cantrips | guidance, prestidigitation |
| 3rd | identify, goodberry |
| 5th | hold person, lesser restoration |
| 9th | dispel magic, revivify |
| 13th | counterspell, locate creature |
| 17th | hold monster, commune with nature |
Hunting Hounds[edit]
Additionally, at 3rd level, you have learned to reach out to the spirits of nature themselves to ask for aid. You can summon two fey spirits that manifest as Hunting Hounds, and will travel with you. These creatures can resemble dogs, wolves, cougars, or any other similar 4-legged creature, but they often have unusually-colored fur and glowing eyes. The hounds are friendly to you and your companions, and they follow your commands as best they can. You can communicate with them both telepathically and verbally. You can summon three hounds at level 7th, four hounds at level 11th.
In combat, the hounds share your initiative count, but it takes its turn immediately after yours. The only action they take on its turn is the Dodge action, unless you take a bonus action or an action on your turn to command all hounds to attack or to take the Dash, Disengage, Help, or Hide action. All your hounds can have their attack action on different creatures, same rule applies to Protective Instinct. Movement or telling your hounds where to move is a free action. If one of your hounds is reduced to 0 hit points or if you dismiss it (No Action), it releases its physical form and returns to the Feywild. At the end of your turn, you can use a bonus action to resummon one hound. At level 15th you can resummon two hounds. At 3rd level you can summon your hounds within 30ft of you, level 7th 90ft and at 11th level 120ft, you can only summon them within the same realm as you and summoning radius. However, they can enter another realm without you or be further then your summoning circle range, as long you are connected to the hounds. The hounds can stay or leave even when you are unconscious.
HUNTING HOUND
Medium fey, chaotic good
Armor Class 13, level 7th (16), level 11th (19).
Hit Points Equal to two times your level in this class + your Proficiency Bonus
Speed 30 ft. Climbing speed equal to walking speed at level 7th, swimming at level 9th, burrowing at level 11th, flying at level 15th.
STR 12 (+1) DEX 17 (+3) CON 12 (+1) INT 14 (+2) WIS 13 (+1) CHA 11 (+0)
Ability score increase Level 11th (+3) each.
Skills Perception +3, level 7th (+6), level 11th (+9), level 15th (+12). Stealth +5, level 7th (+8), level 11th (+11), level 15th (+14).
Condition Immunities exhaustion, poisoned.
Senses passive Perception 10, level 7th (+13), level 11th (+16), level 15th (+19) & Darkvision 60 ft, at level 15th Darkvision is increase by +30.
Languages Can understand any languages that you speak and replies the same.
Keen Hearing and Smell. The hound has advantage on Wisdom(Perception) checks that rely on hearing or smell.
Pack Tactics. The hounds have advantage on an attack roll against a creature if at least one of the allies or other hound is within 5 ft. of the creature and the ally aren't incapacitated.
Side Effect. Once a hound dies you regain all its memories, feelings and pain. You will not receive the hounds wounds or HP damage but because of your connection you would feel it mark you nontheless (Scars can be visible or invisible up to the players RP Flavour).
ACTIONS
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, increase at 9th level (+6), 11th level (+9), 15th (+12), reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: (1d6 + proficiency bonus), increase at 9th level (1d8 + proficiency bonus), increase at 11th level (1d10 + proficiency bonus), increase at 15th level (2d10 + proficiency bonus), piercing damage. Their attacks are also considered magical for the purpose of overcoming resistances and immunities to nonmagical damage.
REACTIONS
Protective Instinct (2/day). If an ally within 5 ft of the hound would be hit by an attack, the hound can cast the shield spell on the target ally and on itself. The spell last until the target next turn. Increase into three times per day at level 7th, four times per day at level 11th, five times per day at level 15th.
Opportunity attack Each hound have their own opportunity of attack.
Favoured Enemy: Spellcaster’s Bane[edit]
Your training has allowed you to master the art of tracking down magic users. You gain an additional Favored Enemy: Spellcasters. When you are tracking/interacting/observing a group of creatures/humanoids, you can immediately tell if any of them have the ability to cast spells. You have advantage on Intelligence checks to recall information about spell effects and identify spells in use. You gain Expertise in Arcana and Investigation if you don’t already have it. Likewise, you gain an additional one language from this ability, like you would normally from a Favored Enemy. This is added with your level one Favored Enemy, which allows you to have 2 different Favored Enemy at the same time. At level 7th, you can add +2 to attack and damage to a creature with the ability to cast spell/spells.
Favored Foe: Magic of Old[edit]
You can call on your bond with nature to mark a creature as your favored enemy for a time: you know the hunter's mark spell and it doesn't count against the number of ranger spells you know, Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for it. You can use it a certain number of times without expending a spell slot and without requiring concentration—a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus. You regain all expended uses when you finish a short or long rest. The first time on each of your turns that you hit the favored enemy and deal damage to it, including when you mark it, you can increase that damage by 1d6 (Max 4d6). Such as first-round 1d6 (even with extra attack its only a 1d6, second round 2d6, etc.) When the creature dies use a bonus action to mark another within 90ft of the dead creature, then redo the damage starting from 1d6. This feature's extra damage increases when you reach certain levels in this class: to 1d8 at 6th level and to 1d10 at 14th level.
Magical Effect: Hunter[edit]
At 7th level, your soul is more intune with the old magic which allows you to enter a path for each dawn. Once a day pick a path for your passive ability and a mark will appear on your body to work as a conduit between you and the old magic. Path of the blade, Path of the eye, & Path of the soul. You can change your path by meditating for 1 hour.
- Path of the blade
- Passive ability - a creature of magical abilities can't surprised attack you & you have advantage on initiative rolls normally.
- Fortuity: You learn to attack with your magic that you can turn a miss into another strike. Once on each of your turns when you miss with a weapon attack, you can make another weapon attack as part of the same action. If you miss with a cast spell, you can make another roll without consuming a spell slot. You can only use this equal to your proficiency bonus.
- Annex: Whenever you make an attack roll, a saving throw, you roll a d4 and add it to the total. You can only use this equal to your proficiency bonus.
- Redirect: You use your reaction to impose disadvantage on that attack roll, possibly causing it to miss. You can only use this equal to your proficiency bonus.
- Path of the eye
- Passive ability: After spending 1 minute looking at a creature. You learn a one-word summary of the emotional state such as happy, confused, afraid, or violent, etc. Instant if the creature has magical abilities. Since this ability has no duration you will immediatly notice in your journey if the creature emotional state changes. This ability will last until you loss contact (not within sight) of the creature for more than 1 hour, in which you will have to redo the 1 minute analyse (Sleep will make you loss this ability). You can connect for 2 creatures, use a spell slot to connect for more creture (max 6).
- Discerning eye: As an Action you learn one creature you can see its current & total hit point and bonus action to learn either all its immunities, or all its resistances, or all its vulnerabilities. You can only use this equal to your proficiency bonus. (The action and bonus action used in 1 turn will only cost 1 PB. If it is used in separate turn then each would cost a PB.)
- Cognizance: As an Action within a 60ft circle you can sense auras of invisible or hidden creatures. Until your turn ends, you can see all creatures, including hidden and invisible ones, regardless of lighting conditions. Bonus action while you can see the target of 60ft, you learn if it’s under the effect of anything magical. You can only use this equal to your proficiency bonus.
- Clairvoyance: You can focus your mind to read the magic strands left on an object. If you hold an object and concentrate on it for 10 minutes, you learn a few basic facts about it such as what it is made of, what its purpose and you gain a mental image from the object's point of view, showing the last creature to hold the object within the past 24 hours.
You also learn of any events that have occurred within 20 feet of the object within the past hour. The events you perceive unfold from the object's perspective. You see and hear such events as if you were there, but can't use other senses. You can only use this equal to your proficiency bonus.
- Path of the soul
- Passive ability: You can collect spells in written form such as books, paper or scrolls and once on each dawn you can prepare one cantrip and 2 low level (below level 3 spells) or 1 cantrip and 1 high level (below level 6 spells). If the spell have the ritual tag, the ritual time is instantaneous.
- Sacrifice: As a bonus action, you can spend 1 health points to create level 1 spell slots, 2 health point for level 2, etc. The spell slot remains until you use it or finish a long rest.
- Elemental Mastery: As an action you gain one resistance to any type of damage, as a reaction when you take damage of that type you can ignore that damage and gain immunity to that damage type until the end of your combat. Can only be use once per day, if you use it a second time you gain one point of exhaustion. if you use it a thrid time you roll everything with disadvantage.
- Proficient: Whenever you make an ability check, you roll a d4 and add it to the total.
Magical Effects: Hounds - Perampla/Brevis[edit]
At 7th level, as an action, you can cast at will Enlarge/Reduce spell one at a time only to your hound for a 1 hour concentration. The one-hour duration concentration will not change if all hounds have the spell effect. (No spell slots, V, S, M or range needed. As long the hounds is within the same plane.)
Strengthened Bond[edit]
At 11th level, as you grow in power, you begin to strengthen your connection with your hounds. When you reach 11th level, they gain the following effects:
- Extra Attack: Starting at 11th level, when you command your hounds to Attack, they each can make two attacks.
- Shatter Magic: When a hound is reduced to 0 hitpoint use the hound reaction to explodes in a burst of force and magic. Each hostile creature within 15 ft. of it must make a DC 17 Dexterity saving throw, taking (2d8) force damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. If the enemy fails, they get pushed 5ft. To a random direction.
- Avatar: You can temporarily transfer your consciousness to your hound. As an action, you can see through their eyes and hear through their ears from despite any distance. During this time, you are deafened and blinded. You can sustain this effect as long you are not unconscious, incapacitated or from another realm, and you can end it at any time (requires no action).
- Vigour: You can use a second path at the same time from the Magical Effect, but only the passive ability would work, everything else would not. If you choose to use the second path actions or bonus actions ability, roll 2d10 damage once to unlock 1 ability, and it can only be healed from a long rest. Once you have unlocked the second path ability it can be used normally without rolling damage, duration is 24 hours. Once 24 hours is done, you will have to redo the damage roll 1 time.
Spell Unravel[edit]
At 15th level, your understanding of how spells are cast has given you insight on how to disrupt them. As a reaction, you can stop a creature that you can see or hear within 90 ft of you from casting a spell, and the spell slot is still consumed. When you do this, you force the target to make a Wisdom saving throw against your spell DC. If they fail, they cannot cast spells until the end of your next turn. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.
- Magik
As an Action or Bonus action, you can implement your magic into one of your hounds. The effect will last until you finish a short or long rest, when the hound/hounds dies and is resummon the effect is removed and will need to be reactivated. When you activate your Magik, you take necrotic damage of 1d6 for each hound with activated Magik only once unless you change or reactivate your magik. This damage can’t be reduced in any way and can only be healed by a long rest or potions, since magic can't heal you.
- Empowered Bite: The hound's Bite attack deals an extra 1d12 damage to a chosen trait - acid, cold, fire, lightning, necrotic, radiant, psychic, thunder or poison. The chosen type determines the hound's additional damage type and the damage to its Infused Strikes trait. This is not stackable, such as if one hound with acid magik, second hound with thunder magik, would not give both the two hounds and you acid and thunder damage. Only the hounds with the active Magik Infused Strike Trait have the additional damage.
- Resistance: You and your hounds gain resistance to the damage type chosen for the hound trait. This can be stackable, such as one hound with acid magik, second hound with thunder magik, would give both the two hounds and you resistence to acid and thunder damage.
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