Moonlight Conclave (5e Subclass)

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This subclass requires the DM to maintain a calendar of lunar phases to function correctly. It also requires larger versatility on the part of the player to adopt differing playstyles as the subclass's strengths and weaknesses will change throughout the course of play.

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Moonlight Conclave

Ranger Subclass

Moonlight rangers are deadliest at night, channeling the energy of the moon to augment their vigil. Their abilities shift in tandem with the phases of the moon and they specialize in hunting shapechangers and creatures afflicted with lycanthropy.

Lunar Magic

Starting at 3rd level, you can prepare additional spells determined by the phases of the moon. When you finish a long rest, you can choose one spell of a level you have spell slots for corresponding to the phase of the moon that night. The chosen spell becomes prepared for you and doesn't count against the number of spells you have prepared. The spell stays prepared until you use this feature to prepare a different spell or until the phase of the moon changes. Spells prepared in this way do not require material components if you have line of sight to the moon.

You can use this feature to prepare one additional spell from the list at 5th, 9th, 13th, and 17th level.

	—Moon Phase—
	Waxing	Full	Waning	New
1st	healing word, guiding bolt	hex, guiding bolt	sleep, sanctuary	faerie fire, cause fear
2nd	moonbeam, prayer of healing	moonbeam, crown of madness	darkness, see invisibility	invisibility, arcanist's magic aura
3rd	bestow curse, revivify	bestow curse, remove curse	remove curse, catnap	blink, nondetection
4th	charm monster, aura of purity	confusion, control water	banishment, death ward	phantasmal killer, shadow of moil
5th	antilife shell, raise dead	hold monster, dominate person	dream, seeming	dispel evil and good, greater restoration

Moonlight Vigil

At 3rd level, your attunement to the moon grants you the following benefits:

• You gain darkvision out to a range of 60 feet, or out to 300 feet while it is nighttime. If you already have darkvision from your race, its range increases by 30 feet.
• You have advantage on saving throws made against exhaustion during the night.
• You always know the number of hours left before the next sunrise or sunset.
• You are always aware of the current phase of the moon.

Curse Resistance

At 3rd level, your connection to the moon offers you a degree of protection from supernatural afflictions. You have advantage on saving throws made to avoid being cursed or made against the effects of curses.

Lunar Empowerment

At 7th level, your attunement to the moon strengthens, granting you additional benefits based on the current phase of the moon:

Waxing

You can add your spellcasting ability modifier to the damage and hit points regained of spells you cast.

Full

You can add twice your spellcasting ability modifier to the damage rolls of spells you cast.

Waning

You have advantage on Constitution checks to maintain concentration on a spell.

New

You can double the duration of any spell you cast with a duration of 1 minute or longer.

Moon-Touched Weapons

At 7th level, you can channel lunar energy into weapons and ammunition you touch. Your weapon attacks are considered silvered for the purposes of overcoming resistance and immunity.

Lunar Aspect

At 11th level, your attunement to the moon further strengthens, granting you additional benefits based on the current phase of the moon. These benefits only function at night.

Waxing

You cannot gain levels of exhaustion and suffer no effect from any levels of exhaustion you have accumulated.

Full

At the beginning of each of your turns, you gain an amount of temporary hit points equal to half your ranger level.

Waning

You gain a +5 bonus to initiative.

New

As a bonus action you cause yourself and any equipment you are wearing or carrying to become invisible until you attack or cast a spell. You can end this invisibility at any time (no action required).

Moonstep

At 15th level, you gain the ability to teleport from one ray of moonlight to the other as a bonus action, depending on the current phase of the moon.

Waxing and Waning

You can teleport to an unoccupied space within 500 feet of you as long as that space is lit by the light of the moon.

Full

You can teleport to an unoccupied space anywhere on the current plane as long as that space is lit by the light of the moon.

New

You can teleport to an unoccupied space within 500 feet of you as long as it is in darkness.

Optional Features

Blood Moons and Solar Eclipses

Distinct from the phases of the moon, these rare lunar events can occur at unspecified times. When they do so, a moonlight conclave ranger can learn to harness these altered lunar energies as well.

Expanded Lunar Magic

When these events occur, you can choose spells from these corresponding tables alongside the typical moon phase table.

	—Lunar Event—
	Blood Moon	Solar Eclipse
1st	bane, inflict wounds	burning hands, hellish rebuke
2nd	wither and bloom, ray of enfeeblement	flaming sphere, blindness/deafness
3rd	animate dead, vampiric touch	daylight, hunger of hadar
4th	blight, sickening radiance	shadow of moil, wall of fire
5th	danse macabre, negative energy flood	dawn, wall of light

Expanded Lunar Empowerment

Blood Moon

When you cast a spell that deals necrotic damage to a creature, you can redistribute half the damage dealt to either yourself or a creature created by you within 60 feet as hit points regained, with any remainder turning into temporary hit points. If the creature is hostile and benefits from these hit points, it becomes friendly to you for as long as it has these temporary hit points.

Solar Eclipse

When you cast a spell that deals fire damage, it ignores resistance and treats immunity as resistance.

Expanded Lunar Aspect

Blood Moon

You have resistance to necrotic damage and your hit point maximum cannot be reduced.

Solar Eclipse

You have resistance to radiant damage and fire damage.

Expanded Moonstep

Solar Eclipse

You can teleport to an unoccupied space within 500 feet of you.

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