Ranger Traits

Ranger Statistics

Hit Dice: d10

Saving Throws: Strength, Dexterity

Skills: Two out of Athletics, History, Insight, Intimidation, Medicine, Persuasion, and Religion

Armor: Light Armor, Medium Armor, Shields

Weapons: All

Tools: None

ASIs: 5 (4th, 8th, 12th, 16th, 19th)

Important Ability Scores: Strength or Dexterity, Wisdom

Subclasses (Archetypes): 5

• PHB Archetypes: Hunter, Beast Master
• Xanathar Archetypes: Horizon Walker, Monster Slayer, Gloomstalker
  

General Traits

Trait Selection: Fighting Style - 1 Option, does not change with level

Communication

• Favored Enemy (1st)

Concealment/Deception/Illusion

• Hide in Plain Sight (10th)
• Vanish (14th)

Divination/Senses/Information Gathering

• Favored Enemy (1st) 
• Feral Senses (18th)
• Primeval Awareness (3rd)

Healing/Restorative

Movement/Travel

• Land's Stride (8th)
• Natural Explorer (1st)

Offensive

• Extra Attack (5th) 
• Feral Senses (18th)
• Fighting Style: Archery (2nd)
• Fighting Style: Dueling (2nd)
• Fighting Style: Two-Weapon Fighting (2nd) 
• Foe Slayer (20th)

Survivability

• Fighting Style: Defense (2nd) 
• Land's Stride (8th)

Utility

•  Natural Explorer (1st)

Archetype Traits

Hunter

• Trait Selection
• Hunter's Prey: 1 option
• Defensive Tactics: 1 option
• Multiattack: 1 option
• Superior Hunter's Defense: 1 option 
• Damage 
• Hunter's Prey: Colossus Slayer (3rd)
• Offensive 
• Hunter's Prey: Horde Breaker (3rd)
• Multiattack: Volley (11th)
• Multiattack: Whirlwind (11th)
• Retributive
• Hunter's Prey: Giant Killer (3rd)
• Superior Hunter's Defense: Stand Against the Tide (15th)
•  Survivability
• Defensive Tactics: Escape the Horde (7th)
• Defensive Tactics: Multiattack Defense (7th)
• Defensive Tactics: Steel Will (7th) 
• Superior Hunter's Defense: Evasion (15th)
• Superior Hunter's Defense: Uncanny Dodge (15th)

Beast Master

• Companion
• Ranger's Companion (3rd)
• Offensive
• Bestial Fury (11th)
• Utility
• Exceptional Training (7th) 
• Share Spells (15th)

Gloom Stalker

• Ambush
• Dread Ambusher (3rd) 
• Concealment/Deception/Illusion
• Gloom Stalker: Disguise Self (3rd - 1st Level Spell)
• Gloom Stalker: Great Invisibility (13th - 4th Level Spell)
• Gloom Stalker: Rope Trick (5th - 2nd Level Spell)
• Gloom Stalker: Seeming (17th - 5th Level Spell)
• Umbral Sight (3rd)
• Divination/Senses/Information Gathering
• Umbral Sight (3rd)
• Gloom Stalker Magic (levels listed are spell level not class level)
• Concentration
• Fear (3rd)
• Great Invisibility (4th)
• Concealment/Deception/Illusion
• Disguise Self (1st) 
• Great Invisibility (4th)
• Rope Trick (2nd)
• Seeming (5th)
• Mind Control
• Fear (3rd)
• Utility
• Rope Trick (2nd)
• Offensive
• Stalker's Flurry (11th)
• Survivability
• Iron Mind (7th) 
• Shadowy Dodge (15th)

Horizon Walker

• Concealment/Deception/Illusions
• Ethereal Step (7th)
• Damage 
• Planar Warrior (3rd)
• Divination/Senses/Information Gathering
• Detect Portal (3rd) 
• Horizon Walker Magic (levels listed are spell level not class level)
• Concentration
• Banishment (4th)
• Haste (3rd)
• Protection from Evil and Good (1st) 
• Expensive Material Components
• Teleportation Circle* (5th) 
• Increased Effectiveness with Higher Level Slots
• Banishment (4th)
• Control
• Banishment (4th)
• Defensive
• Haste (3rd)
• Protection from Evil and Good (1st)
• Movement/Travel
• Haste (3rd)
• Misty Step (2nd)
• Teleportation Circle (5th) 
• Offensive
• Haste (3rd)
• Movement/Travel
• Distant Strike (11th)
• Ethereal Step (7th)
• Offensive 
• Distant Strike (11th)
• Planar Warrior (3rd)
• Survivability 
• Spectral Defense (15th)

Monster Slayer

• Damage
• Slayer's Prey (3rd)
• Divination/Senses/Information Gathering
• Hunter's Sense (3rd)
• Monster Slayer Magic (levels listed are spell level not class level)
• Concentration
• Protection from Evil and Good (1st) 
• Expensive Material Components
• Magic Circle* (3rd)
• Increased Effectiveness with Higher Level Slots
• Banishment (4th)
• Hold Monster (5th)
• Area Denial
• Magic Circle (3rd)
• Control 
• Banishment (4th)
• Hold Monster (5th)
• Defensive
• Magic Circle (3rd)
• Protection from Evil and Good (1st)
• Divination/Senses/Information Gathering
• Zone of Truth (2nd)
• Mind Control 
• Zone of Truth (2nd)
• Wards 
• Magic Circle (3rd)
• Retributive
• Magic-User's Nemesis (11th)
• Slayer's Counter (15th)
• Survivability
• Slayer's Counter (15th)
• Supernatural Defense (7th)

Ranger General Spells

Half-Caster
Innate Caster
Known Spells at 2nd Level: 2
Known Spells at 20th: 11
Spells gained as Archetype features (Gloom Stalker, Horizon Walker, Monster Slayer) do not count against the number of spells known and those 3 Archetypes end with 16 spells known.

Spells from Xanathar's are in Bold

Concentration 

• Absorb Elements (1st)
• Barkskin (2nd)
• Beast Bond (1st) 
• Beast Sense (2nd)
• Conjure Animals (3rd)
• Conjure Woodland Beings (4th) 
• Detect Magic (1st)
• Detect Poison and Disease (1st)
• Ensnaring Strike (1st) 
• Fog Cloud (1st) 
• Flame Arrows (3rd)
• Grasping Vine (4th)
• Guardian of Nature (4th)
• Healing Spirit (2nd)
• Hunter's Mark (1st)
• Locate Creature (4th)
• Locate Object (2nd)
• Pass Without Trace (2nd) 
• Protection from Energy (3rd)
• Spike Growth (2nd)
• Swift Quiver (5th) 
• Tree Stride (5th)
• Wind Wall (3rd)
• Wrath of Nature (5th) 
• Zephyr Strike (1st) 

Expensive Material Components 

• Conjure Barrage* (3rd)
• Conjure Volley (5th)
• Cordon of Arrows* (2nd)
• Stoneskin* (4th)

Increased Effectiveness with Higher Level Slots 

• Conjure Animals (3rd)
• Conjure Woodland Beings (4th)
• Cordon of Arrows (2nd)
• Cure Wounds (1st)
• Ensnaring Strike (1st)
• Flame Arrows (3rd)
• Fog Cloud (1st)
• Hail of Thorns (1st)
  
• Healing Spirit (2nd) 
• Hunter's Mark (1st) 
• Lightning Arrow (3rd) 

Ritual 

• Alarm (1st)
• Beast Sense (2nd) 
• Commune with Nature (5th)
• Detect Magic (1st)
• Detect Poison and Disease (1st) 
• Locate Animals and Plants (2nd)
• Silence (2nd) 
• Water Breathing (3rd)
• Water Walk (3rd) 

Area Denial 

• Cordon of Arrows (2nd)
• Plant Growth (3rd) 
• Snare (1st)
• Spike Growth (2nd)
• Wind Wall (3rd) 
• Wrath of Nature (5th)

Buff

• Barkskin (2nd)
• Jump (1st)
• Longstrider (1st)
• Swift Quiver (5th)

Communication

• Animal Messenger (2nd)
• Beast Bond (1st)
• Speak with Animals (1st)
• Speak with Plants (3rd) 

Concealment/Deception/Illusions

• Fog Cloud (1st)
• Nondetection (3rd)
• Pass without Trace (2nd) 
• Silence (2nd)

Control

• Ensnaring Strike (1st)
• Grasping Vine (4th)
• Snare (1st)
• Wrath of Nature (5th)

Damage 

• Absorb Elements (1st)
• Conjure Barrage (3rd) 
• Conjure Volley (5th)
• Cordon of Arrows (2nd)
• Ensnaring Strike (1st)
• Flame Arrows (3rd)
• Hail of Thorns (1st)
• Hunter's Mark (1st) 
• Lightning Arrow (3rd)
• Spike Growth (2nd)
• Steel Wind Strike (5th)
• Wrath of Nature (5th) 
• Zephyr Strike (1st)

Defensive 

• Absorb Elements (1st)
• Barkskin (2nd)
• Freedom of Movement (4th)
• Protection from Energy (3rd) 
• Protection from Poison (2nd)
• Silence (2nd)

Divination/Senses/Information Gathering

• Beast Bond (1st)
• Beast Sense (2nd)
• Commune with Nature (5th)
• Darkvision (2nd)
• Detect Magic (1st)
• Detect Poison and Disease (1st)
• Find Traps (2nd)
• Hunter's Mark (1st)
• Locate Animals and Plants (2nd)
• Locate Creature (4th)
• Locate Object (2nd)
• Speak with Animals (1st) 
• Speak with  Plants (3rd)

Healing/Restorative

• Cure Wounds (1st)
• Goodberry (1st)
• Healing Spirit (2nd)
• Lesser Restoration (2nd)

Movement/Travel

• Freedom of Movement (4th)
• Jump (1st)
• Longstrider (1st)
• Tree Stride (5th)
• Water Breathing (3rd)
• Water Walk (3rd)
• Zephyr Strike (1st)

Mind Control

• Animal Friendship (1st)

Offensive

• Flame Arrows (3rd)
• Swift Quiver (5th) 
• Zephyr Strike (1st)

Summoning

• Conjure Animals (3rd)
• Conjure Woodland Beings (4th)

Transformative

• Guardian of Nature (4th)

 Utility

• Daylight (3rd)
• Goodberry (1st)
• Plant Growth (3rd)
• Water Breathing (3rd)

Wards

• Alarm (1st)
• Cordon of Arrows (2nd)
• Snare (1st)