Hunter — Sagor från Valoris

The Hunter is the ranger stripped to its essence — a predator without gimmick or patron, whose only edge is a lifetime of studying how living things fight and die. Where other rangers lean on a companion, a fey gift, or the dark, the Hunter leans on nothing but adaptability: reading a foe's weakness in an instant, then choosing exactly the technique to exploit it. Big single threat or a swarm of small ones, the Hunter has already picked the tool for the job.

It is the most flexible and hardy of the archetypes, and the most self-reliant. A Hunter learns to slay giants and scatter hordes, to slip a mob's grasp or punish a foe that dares press the attack, and finally to simply refuse the damage that would fell them. There is no flash to it — just a warden who has hunted long enough that nothing surprises them, and very little survives them.

Archetype Features

Ranger Level	Feature
3rd	Hunter's Lore, Hunter's Prey
7th	Defensive Tactics
11th	Superior Hunter's Prey
15th	Superior Hunter's Defense

3rd Level

Hunter's Lore

You read your quarry to the bone. While a creature is marked by your Hunter's Mark, you know whether it has any Immunities, Resistances, or Vulnerabilities — and exactly what they are. The moment you mark a foe, you also learn precisely where and how to hurt it most.

3rd Level

Hunter's Prey

You adopt a prey-slaying technique, swappable on any rest. Colossus Slayer deals an extra 1d8 damage to any creature already missing Hit Points (once per turn) — perfect for grinding down a single big threat. Horde Breaker lets you make an extra attack against a different creature within 5 feet of your target — ideal for carving through a swarm.

7th Level

Defensive Tactics

You learn to survive the hunt's dangers, again swappable on a rest. Escape the Horde gives Opportunity Attacks against you Disadvantage, so you can slip a crowd freely. Multiattack Defense means that when a creature hits you, it has Disadvantage on all its other attacks against you that turn — blunting the foes that try to pile on.

11th Level

Superior Hunter's Prey

Your mark spreads its punishment. Once per turn, when you deal damage to a creature marked by your Hunter's Mark, you can also deal that spell's extra damage to a different creature within 30 feet of the first — the hunt's focus splashing out to catch a second foe alongside your quarry.

15th Level

Superior Hunter's Defense

You shrug off the blows that would end a lesser warden. When you take damage, you can take a Reaction to gain Resistance to that damage — and to any other damage of the same type — until the end of the turn, halving a barrage of fire, a hail of arrows, or a dragon's breath in a single unhurried motion.