Nightmare Hunter (5e Subclass)

Nightmare Hunter

Ranger Subclass

A Nightmare Hunter, often called a Monster Hunter, is someone who's humanity is thrown away in order to hunt down evil creatures. A monster that hunts monsters.

Cursed Magic

Starting at 3rd level, the path you follow in taking down evil grants you dark powers. Upon learning a ranger spell, you may instead choose to take one Warlock spell of the appropriate level instead.

Nightmarish Transformation

Beginning at 3rd level you are able to tap within the beast within you, transforming you into a nightmarish version of yourself. As a bonus action, you can transform into your Nightmare form, gaining the Monstrosity creature type. This form lasts for 30 minutes. You can speak, use equipment, and wear armor in this form. You can revert to your normal form earlier by using a bonus action on your turn. You automatically revert to your normal form if you fall unconscious, drop to 0 hit points, or die. You can use this feature twice. You regain expended uses when you finish a short or long rest. While you are transformed, you gain the following features:

Monstrous Might

You gain a bonus to melee damage rolls equal to half your proficiency bonus (rounded down). You also have advantage on Strength checks and Strength saving throws. You also gain the "Powerful Build" feature, allowing you to count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity.

Resilient Hide

You have resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage from weapons that aren’t silvered. While you are not wearing heavy armor, you gain a +1 bonus to your AC.

Bestial Strikes

You gain the ability to make unarmed strikes with either claws or fangs you can use Dexterity instead of Strength for the attack and damage rolls of your unarmed strikes. If you attack with your claws you may make an unarmed attack as a bonus action. Your unarmed strikes deal 1d6 slashing damage (1d6 piercing damage for bite.) This die increases to 1d8 at 11th level, and 1d10 at 18th level. At 6th level your unarmed strikes are considered magical for the purpose of overcoming resistances and get +1 to attack and damage rolls. At level 9, this increases to +2 and at level 15, +3.

Monster's Senses

Your new form grants you enhanced senses than your normal form. You get darkvision from up to 60 feet away, if you already have darkvision it extends 30 feet. Additionally, gain the keen hearing and smell trait, gaining advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that require hearing or smelling and Wisdom (Survival) to follow blood trails.

Cursed Weakness

Your have vulnerability to damage from silvered weapons and radiant damage. Taking a critical hit form these damage types will stun you until the start of your next turn.

Bloodlust

At the start of your turn, if you’ve taken any damage since the beginning of your last turn, you must make a Wisdom saving throw to maintain control. The DC equals 10, or half of the total damage you’ve taken from attacks since your last turn, whichever number is higher. You have disadvantage on this saving throw if the damage is radiant or from a silvered weapon. On a failed save, you must move directly towards the nearest creature to you and use the Attack action against that creature. If there is more than one possible target, the DM chooses the target. You then regain control for the remainder of your turn.

If you are under an effect that prevents you from concentrating (like the Barbarian’s rage feature), you automatically fail this saving throw.

Undying

Also at 3rd level, when you are reduced to 0 hit points but not killed outright, you can drop to 1 hit point instead. You can't use this feature again until you finish a long rest.

Nightmarish Ferocity

At 7th level you gain the following enhancements to your nightmare form. Increase your base walking speed by 10 feet and gain a climbing speed equal to your walking speed minus 10. You may also add 10 feet to your long and high jump distance and may use your dexterity score instead of strength when determining the base amount of feet you can jump. Any turn you jump at least 20 feet and attack an enemy, that enemy must immediately make a strength saving throw equal to 8+proficiency+dex modifier and be knocked prone on a failed save (size medium or smaller enemies have disadvantage on this save.) You may then make one free bite attack as part of the same action against this opponent.

Desecrating Cry

At 11th level you are able to focus your monstrous power outward into a cry that shakes your enemies to their core. As an action, you howl at any number of creatures within 30 feet, chilling their blood and stunning them with fear. Any of the target creatures that can hear you must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw (DC equal to 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Wisdom modifier) or become frightened of you until the end of your next turn and take 2d8 thunder damage. If they fail their saving throw by 5 or more, they are stunned until the end of your next turn instead. A creature that succeeds on this saving throw has advantage on saving throws against your Desecrating Cry for the next 24 hours. Using this feature reduces your movement speed to 0 for the rest of your turn. You can use this feature twice. You regain expended uses when you finish a short or long rest. Beginning at 14th level, you can use your Desecrating Cry feature three times between rests, and at 17th level, you can use it four times between rests.

True Nightmare

Finally at 15th level, you learn to unleash and control more of the nightmare within. You can now transform into your Nightmare form as a bonus action, and your Nightmare transformation now lasts for up to 1 hour and can now use it three times between rests, at 17th level you can use it an unlimited number of times and the transformation can last indefinitely.

In addition, your Nightmare form gains the following features:

Regeneration

At the start of each of your turns, you regain hit points equal to 1 + your Constitution modifier (minimum of 1) if you have no more than half of your hit points left. You don't gain this benefit if you have 0 hit points. If you are affected by your Cursed Weakness you lose the benefit of Regeneration until the end of your next turn.

Supernatural Precision

You gain a bonus to melee attack rolls made with your unarmed strikes equal to half of your proficiency bonus (rounded down).

Venomous Maw

You can make an unarmed melee attack against a creature, on hit you deal your unarmed strike in piercing damage and the target must make a Constitution saving throw or take 1d6 poison damage and be Poisoned for a minute, the creature can repeat this save at the end of its turns for the duration.

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