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So, this month's theme is colours, and to start I've immediately gone with the opposite with no colour at all… or is it every colour? Additive or Subtractive colour theory supremacy in the comments, please!

Anyway I rewrote the gloom stalker. I was given the suggestion for it to be a repeated jump scare subclass, which I thought was neat, so I went with it. I also wanted to get rid of its main flaw, which to me was the fact that it's main gimmick, like the assassin, was only usable on its first turn. Well, it's actual gimmick was turning invisible in the dark, which was alright, but weird. And when I had a gloom stalker in my party, I did make them blink in and out of reality with a lamp.

Night Eye

This is just darkvision, useful, effective, thematically important. But since the class is a darkness hunter, the low-light penalty to checks is inconvenient.

Weakness in Uncertainty

This name is a bit of a stretch, but yeah. Anyway, I was fighting with myself for a while what to put on this. The trigger ensures that the attack already has advantage, but I didn't want to just add more damage. The ranger already has several things for that. In the end, I went with increased crit range, but party wide.

Also, because I want melee options, the ability to creep up behind someone and stab them. The lack of any flanking is really troublesome. I'll need to fix that later.

Out of Sight

Nothing new, the ability to hide in darkness just by it being dark is handy, and I feel is a sufficient replacement for darkness auto invis

Out of Mind

This one was an interesting idea, and it paired with the other name so well. An important part of jump scares is having your guard down, so being able to 'resuprise' your enemy seemed fun.

Night Runner

The fact that any breaking of cover tends to break stealth is unfortunate. So here we are.

The Speed of Dark

And now you get to use your very particularly worded first feature with all your attacks! Yes, you can stack the increased crit range, or you know, spread it.

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I also have four classes, and two splatbooks over on DriveThruRPG to check out:

The Rift Binder. A class specialising in summoning monsters and controlling the battlefield.

The Witch Knight. A class that combines swords and sorcery in the most literal way.

The Werebeast. A class that turns you into a half beast to destroy your foes.

The Beguiler. A spellcaster dedicated to illusions, enchantments, and general fuckery.

d'Artagnan's Adventurer Almanac. A compendium of races, subclasses, feats, spells, monsters and more!

Flames curl up from scimitars held by an elf woman, she charges towards her foe, and disappears in a burst of flame. Flamedancers control the innate chaos of fire magic, and are able to use it to maneuver around the battlefield with ease, and devastate their foes with blasts of inferno. 

This is an idea I’ve had for a while but I never really got around to putting it to paper just because I knew it would be a complex build.

I waffled quite a bit on what class I wanted to make this an archetype for. I started under the assumption that this would be good as a rogue option, but having recently done a rebuild on the ranger (which can be found HERE) and without a single ranger archetype under my belt, I thought this would be a good chance to show them a little love. I realize that this is probably a little complex given the number of options and the sheer amount of words, but this seemed like the most straightforward way to give the class interesting options and, more importantly, VARIED options. Getting roped into doing the same thing every round can get boring (I’m looking at you, fighter), and this presents an option to really dive into the scouting and logistics role which I feel is sorely lacking from most class’ gameplay loops. I’m not quite certain if these options are horribly underpowered, terribly overpowered, fun, boring, tedious, or where exactly it will end up fitting in the grand scheme of party composition, but if nothing else it will be a good place to start with advancing this style of play.

As always, questions and comments are welcome. I’d love to hear your thoughts!

Something New, to go in pair with my Firearm mechanics. This Archetype, or Conclave if You will, is first of firearm focused subclasses I have planned. It is somewhat inspired by Gunslinger by Matthew Mercer and I also plan to make own version of that. Now the Corsair is planned to mix d&d with the legendary theme of pirate voyages. I only regret there wasn’t place to fit alcocholic-potions in beetwen of shooting skills and sea magic. So now, take Your makeshift blunderbuss with haphazard axehead, charm that shark mermaid and have fun on the seas!

Edit: And OF COURSE, if You are using Unearthed Arcana’s Ranger Revisited option, which I highly recommend, at 5th level Corsair gets Extra Attack.

Ranger - Corsair Conclave

Tale of Flame from the Sea

Corsairs are known for their cunning use of firearms, mastery of sailing and making potent spirits of wild properties. When You chose this Conclave (Archetype), You gain proficiency with Firearms as well as Brewer’s supplies, Vehicles (Water) and Navigator’s tools.

Corsair Magic

You learn additional spells at certain levels of this class. Those spells don’t count against number of ranger spells known, but are ranger spells for You.

3rd level: Ray of Sickness

5th level: Heat Metal

9th level: Bestow Curse

13th level: Charm Monster

17th level: Maelstrom

Point Blank Attacker

You master the usage of firearms in close range. Starting at level 7 You don’t have disadvantage on ranged attack rolls with single-bullet firearms while You are 5 feet away from hostile creature against targets 5 feet away from You. Additionally once per turn, if You are using scattershot firearm against target within 5 feet, You can make an attack  with advantage against that creature. That attack can’t target more than one creature.

Mortar Expertise

Corsairs are trained with ship and fort weaponry. At level 7, if You are using mounted weapon requiring multiple actions to operate, You can also use bonus action to interact with it. For example, if a cannon requires action to reload, aim and fire, You can do one of those as a bonus action in addition to Your standard action.

Blade and Powder

At 11th level, once on each of Your turns, after hitting a creature with melee weapon attack You can make one extra ranged weapon attack with firearm, or after hitting a creature with a ranged weapon attack with firearm You can make one melee weapon attack.

Retaliation

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Daring, aren't we? So, it turns out, that all the reaction, reflex, and daring movement features I could think of were already rogue and monk class features. Interesting, isn't it. Kind of glad I didn't make this a rogue archetype.

Second-Story Work

It turns out that tasha's alternate class feature thing has really made rangers a nuisance to write for. How do I know what features they have? So here I cater for if they have a climbing speed feature or a ignore difficult terrain feature by giving them the opposite. One Good Turn

The only feature in the list that takes the subclass name literally. And why this wasn't a rogue subclass. Take a risky action, get rewarded

Rolling Fall

So, it turns out that an important part of parkour is knowing how to fall. It turns out that monks know how to fall too.

Cunning Alacrity

Since rangers don't have their bonus action bogged down, they don't really need more move speed. Besides, if you have roving, it's slightly redundant.

Wall Runner

More monk powers. No water walking though.

Uncanny Reflexes

Uncanny dodge AND evasion? oh my!

Redirect Momentum

A bit of the standard dodge attack, plus some redirect missiles, plus some judo throws.

And now to plug my stuff. I release homebrews weekly over on my Patreon. Anyone who pledges $1 or more per post don't have to wait a month to see them, and also help fund my being alive habit.

At the moment, they have exclusive access to the following:

Forces of Chaos

Survival of the FIttest

Proteans

Circle of Storms

I also have four classes, and a splatbook over on DriveThrueRPG to check out:

The Rift Binder. A class specialising in summoning monsters and controlling the battlefield.

The Witch Knight. A class that combines swords and sorcery in the most literal way.

The Werebeast. A class that turns you into a half beast to destroy your foes.

The Beguiler. A spellcaster dedicated to illusions, enchantments, and general fuckery.