Ranger
Rangers are highly skilled hunters who, despite their martial abilities, rarely lend their skills to an army. Through mastery of the body and a deep understanding of the wilderness, rangers become sly tacticians, pursuing their quarry with cunning and patience. Many rangers track and fight alongside an animal companion with whom theyāve forged a powerful spiritual bond. By honing their skills in the wild, rangers become expert trackers, as likely to ensnare their foes in a trap as they are to assail them head-on.
Spend 3 Hope when you succeed on an attack with a weapon to use that same roll against two additional adversaries within range of the attack.
Spend a Hope and make an attack against a target. On a success, deal your attackās normal damage and temporarily make the attackās target your Focus. Until this feature ends or you make a different creature your Focus, you gain the following benefits against your Focus:
Play the Beastbound if you want to form a deep bond with an animal ally.
Jenny Tan
Beastbound
Foundation
Spellcast: Agility
Companion: You have an animal companion of your choice (at the GMās discretion). They stay by your side unless you tell them otherwise.
Take the Ranger Companion sheet. When you level up your character, choose a level-up option for your companion from this sheet as well.
Ranger
Jenny Tan
Beastbound
Mastery
Advanced Training: Choose two additional level-up options for your companion.
Loyal Friend: Once per long rest, when the damage from an attack would mark your companionās last Stress or your last Hit Point and youāre within Close range of each other, you or your companion can rush to the otherās side and take that damage instead.
Ranger
When you choose the Beastbound Ranger subclass, take a companion sheet. This sheet is for tracking important information about your characterās companion and can be tucked beneath the right side of your character sheet for ease of viewing.
Work with the GM to decide what kind of animal you have as your companion. Give them a name and add a picture of them to the companion sheet.
Fill in their Evasion, which starts at 10.
Create two Experiences for your companion based on their training and the history you have together. Start with +2 in both Experiences. Whenever you gain a new Experience, your companion also gains one. All new Experiences start at +2.
Example Companion Experiences
Bold Distraction, Expert Climber, Fetch, Friendly, Guardian of the Forest, Horrifying, Intimidating, Loyal Until the End, Navigation, Nimble, Nobody Left Behind, On High Alert, Protective, Royal Companion, Scout, Service Animal, Trusted Mount, Vigilant, We Always Find Them, You Canāt Hit What You Canāt Find
Finally, describe your companionās method of dealing damage (their standard attack) and record it in the āAttack & Damageā section. At level 1, your companionās damage die is a d6 and their range is Melee.
The following sections will run you through the basics of working with your companion.
Make a Spellcast Roll to connect with your companion and command them to take action. Spend a Hope to add an applicable Companion Experience to the roll. On a success with Hope, if your next action builds on their success, you gain advantage on the roll.
When you command your companion to attack, they gain any benefits that would normally only apply to you (such as the effects of āRangerās Focusā). On a success, their damage roll uses your Proficiency and their damage die.
When your companion would take any amount of damage, they mark a Stress. When they mark their last Stress, they drop out of the scene (by hiding, fleeing, or a similar action). They remain unavailable until the start of your next long rest, where they return with 1 Stress cleared.
When you choose a downtime move that clears Stress on yourself, your companion clears an equal number of Stress.
When your character levels up, choose one available option for your companion from the following list and mark it on your sheet.
Work with the GM to decide what kind of animal you have as your companion. Give them a name and draw or attach a picture of them in the space above. Then create two Experiences for your companion based on their training and the history you have together. Finally, describe their method of dealing damage (their standard attack) and record it in the āAttack & Damageā section. Their damage starts at d6 and their range starts at Melee.
Your companionās Evasion starts at 10.
Start with +2 in both Experiences. Whenever you gain a new Experience, your companion also gains one. All new Experiences start at +2.
Example Companion Experiences Bold Distraction, Expert Climber, Fetch, Friendly, Guardian of the Forest, Horrifying, Intimidating, Loyal Until the End, Navigation, Nimble, Nobody Left Behind, On High Alert, Protective, Royal Companion, Scout, Service Animal, Trusted Mount, Vigilant, We Always Find Them, You Canāt Hit What You Canāt Find
Make a Spellcast Roll to connect with your companion and command them to take action. Spend a Hope to add an applicable Companion Experience to the roll. On a success with Hope, if your next action builds on their success, you gain advantage on the roll.
Standard Attack: _______________ | Range: ________________
[ ] d6 | [ ] d8 | [ ] d10 | [ ] d12
When you command your companion to attack, they gain any benefits that would normally only apply to you (such as the effects of āRangerās Focusā). On a success, their damage roll uses your Proficiency and their damage die.
Stress: [x] [x] [x] [ ] [ ] [ ]
Your companionās Stress Slots start at 3.
When your companion would take any amount of damage, they mark a Stress. When they mark their last Stress, they drop out of the scene (by hiding, fleeing, or a similar action). They remain unavailable until the start of your next long rest, where they return with 1 Stress cleared.
When you choose a downtime move that clears Stress on yourself, your companion clears an equal number of Stress.
Whenever your character levels up, also choose one option for your companion from the list below and mark it
Play the Wayfinder if you want to hunt your prey and strike with deadly force.
Simon Pape
Wayfinder
Foundation
Spellcast: Agility
Ruthless Predator: When you make a damage roll, you can mark a Stress to gain a +1 bonus to your Proficiency. Additionally, when you deal Severe damage to an adversary, they must mark a Stress.
Path Forward: When youāre traveling to a place youāve previously visited or you carry an object that has been at the location before, you can identify the shortest, most direct path to your destination.
Ranger
Simon Pape
Wayfinder
Specialization
Elusive Predator: When your Focus makes an attack against you, you gain a +2 bonus to your Evasion against the attack.
Ranger
Simon Pape
Wayfinder
Mastery
Apex Predator: Before you make an attack roll against your Focus, you can spend a Hope. On a successful attack, you remove a Fear from the GMās Fear pool.
Ranger
Answer any of the following background questions. You can also create your own questions.
A terrible creature hurt your community, and youāve vowed to hunt them down. What are they, and what unique trail or sign do they leave behind?
Your first kill almost killed you, too. What was it, and what part of you was never the same after that event?
Youāve traveled many dangerous lands, but what is the one place you refuse to go?
Ask your fellow players one of the following questions for their characters to answer, or create your own questions.
What friendly competition do we have?
Why do you act differently when weāre alone than when others are around?
What threat have you asked me to watch for, and why are you worried about it?
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