🌑 Ranger Subclass — The Hellstalker

Class: Ranger

Recommended Domains: Bone (precision, fortitude) & Sage (natural and spiritual harmony)

Spellcast Trait: Instinct

FOUNDATION FEATURE — Tainted Arsenal

When you create or maintain your weapons, you bind them with infernal sigils or sacred scars.

Choose two damage types — necrotic, psychic, or radiant — to represent the energies seared into your arms and ammunition.

• Once per turn, when you hit with a weapon attack, deal +1d4 damage of one chosen type.
• Against fiends, undead, or aberrations, add your Proficiency bonus to the damage.
• When you roll your Hope die higher than your Fear die on an attack, the target must make a Presence save or become Branded until your next turn.
  • Branded creatures have disadvantage on attacks that don’t target you.

SPECIALIZATION FEATURE — Circle the Flame

When a fiend, undead, or aberration forces an ally within Far range to make a saving throw, you can mark 1 Stress to intercede.

• Your ally automatically succeeds.
• You take 1d6 + Instinct psychic damage.
• The attacker becomes Branded until the end of your next turn.