RANGER SUBCLASSES

VOLUME I

Featuring 3 new Ranger Archetypes for use in

your games of Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition.
 NEW RANGER ARCHETYPES
Rangers are best known as protectors of nature and defenders
of civilizations from looming threats. In this supplement, you
will be introduced to three more archetypes.
Archaeologist – Warriors devoted to the preservation of
history and who, through its study, learn secrets of time itself.
They use their knowledge to fortify their abilities and maintain
the relics of the past.
Light Keeper – In contrast to many rangers who prefer to
keep to shadows, Light Keepers seek to live their lives in the
open light of the sun. Harnessing sunlight to bolster themselves,
they fight to cast out any darkness that seeks to enshroud the
world.
Weave Guardian – Wardens of the magical essence that
permeates throughout all existence. They feel the weave’s
presence in all things and learn to channel its raw power to
guard against any who would threaten its balance.
ABOUT THIS SUPPLEMENT
This is the third installment in a series of supplements from
DragonRoc RPG Design, each of which focuses on one of the
classes from Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition, offering new
subclasses and additional optional features.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Ranger Archetypes
Archaeologist ......................................................... 2
Light Keeper .......................................................... 3
Weave Guardian ................................................... 4
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Designers: Daniel Lieberman & René Beauregard
Editor: David Ansell
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ARCHAEOLOGIST
While many rangers feel a strong connection to the natural
world, which they draw upon to fuel their magical abilities, for
the archaeologist this connection extends to the passage of time
itself. They are students of history, who seek out the relics and
knowledge of ancient civilizations, learning from them and
serving as guardians of the legacies of the past.
ARCHAEOLOGIST MAGIC
3rd-level Archaeologist feature
You learn an additional spell when you reach certain levels in
this class, as shown in the Archaeologist Spells table. The spell
counts as a ranger spell for you, but it doesn’t count against the
number of ranger spells you know.
ARCHAEOLOGIST SPELLS
Ranger Level Spell
3rd comprehend languages
5th knock
9th speak with dead
13th stone shape
17th legend lore
STUDIOUS DISCOVERY
3rd-level Archaeologist feature
You gain proficiency in the History and Investigation skills if
you don’t already have it. Your proficiency bonus is doubled for
any ability check you make that uses either of those
proficiencies.
In addition, you have assembled your own set of
archaeologist’s supplies with which you gain proficiency. You
also gain proficiency with one of the following additional tools
of your choice: carpenter’s tools, cartographer’s tools, jeweler’s
tools, mason’s tools, potter’s tools, tinker’s tools, thieves’ tools,
woodcarver’s tools.
DUSTS OF THE PAST
3rd-level Archaeologist feature
Be it simply the remaining soil and dirt from your last dig or the
sands of time themselves, in battle your weapon strikes seem to
cast dust in the air, potentially briefly blinding your enemies.
Once on each of your turns, when you hit a creature with a
weapon attack you can force the target to make a Dexterity
saving throw against your spell save DC. On a failure, they are
blinded until the end of their next turn.
ARCANE HISTORIAN
7th-level Archaeologist feature
Many ancient societies, some long forgotten by most, had deep
and rich traditions of arcane mastery. Your study of such
cultures has granted you a greater understanding of arcane
practice. You can cast any ranger spell you know as a ritual if
that spell has the ritual tag. You also learn to cast the identify
spell but only as a ritual.
In addition, you can use spell scrolls to cast spells that are not
on the ranger spell list.
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SANDS OF TIME
11th-level Archaeologist feature
Your ever-deepening connections to the past grant you kinship
with the flow of time itself, even granting the ability to briefly
alter the ways others experience its passage, as you cause the
sands of their own lifetime to fall a little slower. You know the
slow spell. It doesn’t count against the number of ranger spells
you know and you can cast it without a material component.
You can also cast it once without a spell slot, and you regain the
ability to do so when you finish a long rest.
Whenever you cast this spell, you can modify it so it does not
require concentration. If you do so, the spell only targets one
creature.
IMMEMORIAL SKIRMISHER
15th-level Archaeologist feature
You have studied the exploits, traditions and tactics of history’s
greatest warriors, granting greater insight in the ways of war and
allowing you to better anticipate your enemy’s attacks. When a
creature hits you with an attack, you can use your reaction to add
your Wisdom modifier to your AC for that attack, potentially
causing the attack to miss you. If the attack then misses, you
may make a weapon attack against that creature as part of the
same reaction if they are in range of a weapon you are currently
wielding. If your attack hits, it automatically counts as a critical
hit.
You can use this feature a number of times equal to your
proficiency bonus. You regain all expended uses after a long
rest.
ARCHAEOLOGIST’S SUPPLIES
cost 12gp weight. 18 lbs
A selection of both common and specialized tools, well
suited to the discovery, recovery and analysis of historical
artifacts and relics.
Components. Archaeologist’s supplies include a shovel,
a pickaxe, a dustpan, a bucket, a magnifying glass, a
notebook and writing utensils, as well as a variety of
sieves, spades, trowels, brushes, small picks and blades.
History, Investigation. You specialize in the discovery,
examination and analysis of historical objects, structures
and ruins.
Athletics, Survival. Your skillful use of these tools
makes you extremely efficient at excavation and adept at
safely navigating ruins and other potentially unstable areas
and structures.
Hidden Discovery. Whenever you make a Wisdom
(Perception) or Intelligence (Investigation) check to
attempt to discover hidden doors, rooms, compartments or
passageways, if you use your archaeologist supplies you
can treat a d20 roll of 9 or lower as a 10.
Activity DC
Determine an object’s or structure’s approximate age 10
Assess a ruin’s structural stability 15
Safely recover a buried relic/object Varies
*Designer’s Note. To get the most out of your tool proficiencies and for how to use
them together with your skill proficiencies, see page 78 of Xanathar’s Guide to
Everything.
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LIGHT KEEPER SUNLIGHT BEACON
15th-level Light Keeper feature
While paladins and clerics are reverent to the gods they claim Your ability to tap into the power of the sun enables you to
are responsible for creation, Light Keepers revere the sun and allow it to burst out of you defensively. When you are hit by an
the bounties it provides. These rangers take a stand at preserving attack, you can use your reaction to emit pure white light. Every
the natural order, fending off darkness and those who strive to hostile creature in a 30-foot radius of you must make a
black out the light of the world. Wherever shadows creep, they Constitution saving throw against your spell save DC or be
endeavor to remove them with brilliant illumination. blinded for 1 minute. A creature blinded by this effect makes
another Constitution saving throw at the end of each of its turns.
LIGHT KEEPER MAGIC On a successful save, it is no longer blinded.
3rd-level Light Keeper feature Once you use this ability, you cannot do so again until you
You learn the light cantrip if you don’t already know it. finish a short or long rest.
You will also learn an additional spell when you reach certain
levels in this class, as shown in the Light Keeper Spells table.
The spell counts as a ranger spell for you, but it doesn’t count
against the number of ranger spells you know.
LIGHT KEEPER SPELLS
Ranger Level Spell
3rd light, guiding bolt
5th branding smite
9th daylight
13th aura of life
17th dawn

LUMINOSITY
3rd-level Light Keeper feature
You can harness the power of the sun. When you are in bright
light you gain the following benefits:
• You gain a +1 bonus to your AC.
• Your weapon attacks deal an additional 1d4 radiant damage.
• You add a d4 on all Wisdom-based ability checks and saving
throws.

SHADOWS BANE
7th-level Light Keeper feature
Your brilliance shines brighter than all others. You can cast light
as a bonus action, and if you do so on or in an area affected by
magical darkness created by a spell of 3rd level or lower, the
spell that created the darkness is dispelled.
You can do this a number of times equal to your proficiency
modifier. You regain all expended uses after a long rest.

PROTECTIVE AURORA
11th-level Light Keeper feature
You know the sanctuary spell. It doesn’t count against the
number of ranger spells you know and you can cast it without a
material component and without expending a spell slot. You can
do so a number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier
(minimum of once), and you regain all expended uses when you
finish a long rest.
In addition, creatures warded by a sanctuary spell cast by you
shed bright light in a 10-foot radius and dim light for an
additional 10 feet while the spell is active. Any creature that
passes its Wisdom save and damages a warded target
immediately takes radiant damage equal to your proficiency
modifier.

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WEAVE GUARDIAN
Sworn protectors of the weave of magic itself, Weave Guardians
see and feel its presence in all things, viewing it as a living force
that connects and flows through all existence. This
understanding and the depth of their connection to the weave,
grants them knowledge of it in some ways beyond that of
spellcasters with far greater magical power. They seek to find
and preserve balance both in that great, ever-present power for
which they have such reverence and in themselves. If that
balance is ever threatened they are fierce warriors, wielding
magic alongside weapons. Any creature who abuses the gifts of
magic and thereby endangers the balance of the weave, should
fear the wrath of a Weave Guardian as they are particularly
skilled at combating the use of magic, tapping into the very
fabric of the weave to disrupt others’ connection to it or to
unleash its raw power themselves…
WEAVE GUARDIAN MAGIC
3rd-level Weave Guardian feature
You learn the prestidigitation cantrip if you don’t already know
it.
You will also learn an additional spell when you reach certain
levels in this class, as shown in the Weave Guardian Spells
table. The spell counts as a ranger spell for you, but it doesn’t
count against the number of ranger spells you know.
WEAVE GUARDIAN SPELLS
Ranger Level Spell
3rd prestidigitation, shield
5th magic weapon
9th counterspell
13th dimension door
17th circle of power
PULSE OF THE WEAVE
3rd-level Weave Guardian feature
You gain proficiency in the Arcana skill if you don’t already
have it and your proficiency bonus is doubled for any check you
make using it. When casting spells, you no longer need to
provide material components that do not have a specified cost as
your connection and understanding of the weave of magic
allows you to use the weave itself as a spellcasting focus (as
described in chapter 10 of the Players Handbook).
In addition, you learn the detect magic spell and it counts as a
ranger spell for you, but doesn’t count against the number of
ranger spells you know. You can cast it without expending a
spell slot a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and
you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.
SURGE OF MYSTRA
3rd-level Weave Guardian feature
Once per turn when you hit with a spell or weapon attack, you
can deal an extra 1d4 force damage. The extra damage increases
to ld6 when you reach 11th level in this class.
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RENDING ARC
7th-level Weave Guardian feature
Your connection to the weave further enhances your combat
abilities, wreathing the weapons you wield in magical energy
and allowing you to send blasts of raw magic arcing forth. You
learn the eldritch blast cantrip, which counts as a ranger spell for
you but as a cantrip doesn’t count against the number of ranger
spells you know. If you are wielding a magic weapon that has a
+1, +2 or +3 bonus to attack and damage rolls, that bonus
applies to the spell attack and damage rolls of the eldritch blast
cantrip as well.
DISRUPTIVE STRIKE
11th-level Weave Guardian feature
You learn ways to disrupt or even sever the link between the
weave itself and objects, creatures, and even focused spellcasters
currently carrying some form of magical charge. Whenever you
damage a creature that is concentrating on a spell with your
Surge of Mystra feature, that creature has disadvantage on the
saving throw it makes to maintain its concentration.
In addition, when you hit a creature or object with a weapon
attack, you can use your bonus action to have the attack deal
additional force damage equal to your ranger level and cast the
dispel magic spell against the target.
Once you use this bonus action, you can't use it again until you
finish a long rest, unless you expend spell slot of 3rd-level or
higher to use it again.
MASTERFUL ATTUNEMENT
15th-level Weave Guardian feature
You ignore all class, race, and level requirements on the use of
magic items.
You also gain the ability to, if you choose, attune to a magic
item you are holding as a single action, as opposed to the
normally required short rest, but doing so immediately ends your
attunement to all other items you are currently attuned to. If you
attempt to attune to an item this way that another creature is
currently attuned to, you and that creature both immediately
suffer 2d10 psychic damage and must make contested
Intelligence (Arcana) checks. If you win, you successfully attune
to the item and the other creature’s attunement to the item, and
all other magic items it was attuned to at that time, immediately
ends. If the creature wins, it maintains its attunements and you
still lose attunement to any items you were attuned to. In the
event of a tie, you fail to attune to the item, but both you and the
creature maintain all of your present attunements.
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