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RANGER Pin Down

At 3rd level, you learn how to keep your prey exactly where
Rangers travel the farthest reaches of the world to protect you want them. Once on each of your turns when you make a
the rest of society from encroaching danger. As unique as the weapon attack, you can attempt to pin down that target. You
challenges they overcome, these wanderers are well-adapted make this choice before rolling the attack. If it hits, the target
to survive and thrive in almost any situation. takes an extra 1d8 damage of the weapon’s type and its speed
Rangers follow archetypes based on surviving the multi- is reduced by 10 feet until the start of your next turn.
verse’s strangest and most varied dangers. Few have the same When you reach 11th level in this class, the extra damage
background and expertise, and as a result, there are always increases to 2d8, and if the attack hits, the target also can’t
new and exciting ways that these daring explorers choose to take reactions until the start of your next turn.
vanquish the forces of evil.
Sure-Footed
WINTER TRAPPER
By 7th level, you know how best to keep your footing. While
you’re not incapacitated, you can’t be knocked prone.
Winter Trappers are masters of control and keep both their In addition, your archetype’s wintry history grants you ad-
adversaries and quarries helpless and at bay. Originating ditional benefits. You ignore difficult terrain created by ice or
from the Everglacier, these trained hunters are experts at snow, and you have advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks
staying upright when others would surely fall, and have while in icy or snowy terrain.
learned how to use magic and acrobatics to keep both them-
selves and their allies out of harm’s reach.
Helpless Prey

Winter Trapper Magic Also at 7th level, attacking a prone creature doesn’t impose
disadvantage on your ranged attack rolls.
Starting at 3rd level, you learn an additional spell when you
reach certain levels in this class, as shown in the Winter
Trapper Spells table. The spell counts as a ranger spell for Magic Snare
you, but it doesn’t count against the number of ranger spells At 11th level, you’ve learned how to quickly set undetectable
you know. magical traps. You can imperceptibly create one of these
magical snares in the ground at your feet as a bonus action
Winter traPPer SPellS on your turn. The first Large or smaller creature other than
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Ranger Level Spells a Dexterity saving throw against your spell save DC. On a
3rd expeditious retreat failed save, a creature takes 2d8 piercing damage and has its
5th mirror image speed reduced to 0 until the end of its current turn, as the
ground opens up and clamps down on it. On a successful
9th sleet storm
save, a creature takes half as much piercing damage, and its
13th hallucinatory terrain speed is unaffected.
17th mislead When you create a snare, you can designate any creatures
you choose, and the trap ignores them. A creature that can
see invisible creatures and objects (such as one benefiting
from see invisibility or truesight) can see these traps. You can
use this feature a number of times equal to your Wisdom
modifier (minimum of once). You regain all expended uses
when you finish a long rest.
Winter Trapper Tripped Defenses
Ranger
At 15th level, you have learned to use a creature’s mistakes
against them. When a Large or smaller creature within 5 feet
of you that you can see misses you with an attack, you can
use your reaction to knock that creature prone. When you do,
you can make either one weapon attack against that creature
or move up to half your speed immediately after its attack.

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