Bloodhunter

Class Features

As a bloodhunter, you gain the following class features.

Hit Points

Hit Dice: 1d10 per bloodhunter level
Hit Points at 1st Level: 10 + your Constitution modifier
Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d10 (or 6) + your Constitution modifier per bloodhunter level after 1st

Proficiencies

Armor: Light armor, medium armor, shields
Weapons: Simple weapons, martial weapons
Tools: Your choice from alchemy supplies, harvesting kit, herbalism kit
Saving Throws: Intelligence, Constitution or Wisdom
Skills: Choose three from Athletics, Acrobatics, Arcana, History, Insight, Investigation, Religion, and Survival

Equipment

You start with 200 gp, in addition to the equipment granted by your background. The following are good starting items for bloodhunters:

• A martial weapon or two simple weapons
• A light crossbow and 20 bolts
• Studded leather armor or scale mail armor
• An explorer’s pack
• Alchemy supplies, harvesting kit, or herbalism kit

Hunter's Bane

^{1st-level Bloodhunter feature}
You have survived the Hunter’s Bane, a dangerous, long-guarded ritual that alters your life’s blood, forever binding you to the darkness and honing your senses against it. Choose three of the following creature types: aberrations, celestials, dragons, elementals, fey, fiends, monstrosities, or undead. You have Advantage on Wisdom (Survival) checks to track the creatures of the creature types you chose, as well as on Intelligence ability checks to recall information about them.

Choose Charisma, Intelligence, or Wisdom to be your Hunter’s Bane ability. Once you make this choice, you cannot change it. The Hunter’s Bane also empowers your body to control and shape hemocraft magic, using your own blood and life essence to fuel your abilities. Some of your features require your target to make a saving throw to resist the feature’s effects. The saving throw DC is calculated as follows: Hemocraft save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Hunter’s Bane ability modifier.

Blood Maledict

^{1st-level Bloodhunter feature}
You gain the ability to channel, and sometimes sacrifice, a part of your vital essence to curse and manipulate creatures through hemocraft magic. You gain one blood curse of your choice, detailed in the “Blood Curses” section at the end of the class description. You learn one additional blood curse of your choice, and you can choose one of the blood curses you know and replace it with another blood curse, at 6th, 10th, 14th, 18th, and 21st level.

When you use your Blood Maledict, you choose which curse to invoke. While invoking a blood curse, but before it affects the target, you can choose to amplify the curse by losing a number of hit points equal to one roll of your hemocraft die, as shown in the Hemocraft Die column of the Blood Hunter table. An amplified curse gains an additional effect, noted in the curse’s description. Creatures that do not have blood in their bodies are immune to blood curses, unless you have amplified the curse.

You can use this feature once. Beginning at 6th level, you can use your Blood Maledict feature twice, at 13th level you can use it three times between rests, and at 17th level, you can use it four times between rests. You regain all expended uses when you finish a short or long rest.

Occult Teachings

^{1st-level Bloodhunter feature}
The dark powers entreated by the Bloodhunter is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural. You start with two Bloodhunter Occult Teachings of your choice. Your Occult Teachings are detailed on the Occult Teachings page. The Teachings Known column of the Bloodhunter table shows when you learn more talents. A level prerequisite refers to your level in this class.

Additionally, when you gain a level in this class, you can choose one of the Occult Teachings you know and replace it with another Occult Teaching that you could learn at that level.

Combat Maneuvers

^{2nd-level Bloodhunter feature}
You gain the ability to use combat maneuvers. You gain proficiency in two combat traditions from the following list: Berserker, Deadeye, Determination, Nemesis, Skirmisher, Templar. You learn two maneuvers of your choice from traditions you are proficient with.

The Bloodhunter table shows how much focus you have to use your maneuvers of 1st degree and higher. To use one of your maneuvers, you must expend focus from your focus pool. You regain all expended focus when you finish a short or long rest. Your maneuvers show how much focus they cost. The Maneuvers Known column of the Bloodhunter table shows when you learn more maneuvers from a tradition you are proficient with, while the Maneuver Degree column shows the highest degree you can select maneuvers from at a given level. You cannot know more maneuvers of a degree than you know of degrees below it.

Additionally, whenever you learn a new maneuver, you can choose one of the maneuvers you know and replace it with another maneuver, and whenever you finish a long rest, you can replace any maneuvers you know with maneuvers from traditions you are proficient with of the same degree over the course of 10 minutes.

Fighting Style

^{2nd-level Bloodhunter feature}
You adopt a style of fighting as your specialty. Choose one of the following options. You can’t take a Fighting Style option more than once, even if you later get to choose again.

Martial Versatility

Whenever you gain a level in a class that has the Fighting Style feature, you can replace a fighting style you know with another style available to your class. This change represents a shift of focus in your martial training and practice, causing you to lose the benefits of one style and gain the benefits of another style.

Crimson Rite

^{2nd-level Bloodhunter feature}
You learn to invoke a rite of hemocraft that infuses your weapon strikes with elemental energy. As a bonus action, you can activate any rite you know on one weapon you're holding. The effect of the rite lasts until you finish a short or long rest. When you activate a rite, you take necrotic damage equal to one roll of your hemocraft die. This damage can't be reduced in any way.

While the rite is in effect, attacks you make with this weapon deal extra damage equal to your hemocraft die of the type determined by the chosen rite. A weapon can hold only one active rite at a time. Other creatures can't gain the benefit of your rite.

You choose one Primal Rite from the crimson rites below when you first gain this feature. You learn an additional Primal Rite at 7th level, and an Esoteric Rite at 14th level.

Primal Rites

Choose from the following:

• Rite of the Flame. Your rite damage is fire damage.
• Rite of the Frozen. Your rite damage is cold damage.
• Rite of the Storm. Your rite damage is lightning damage.
• Rite of the Tarnished. Your rite damage is acid damage.
• Rite of the Viper. Your rite damage is poison damage.

Esoteric Rites

• Rite of the Dead. Your rite damage is necrotic damage.
• Rite of the Oracle. Your rite damage is psychic damage.
• Rite of the Roar. Your rite damage is thunder damage.

Bloodhunter Order

^{3rd-level Bloodhunter feature}
You commit to an order of blood hunter martial focus. The order you choose grants you features at 3rd level, and again at 7th, 11th, 15th, 18th, 23rd, 27th, and 30th level.

Stigmata

^{3rd-level Bloodhunter feature}
Few who undergo the rituals to join a Bloodhunter order survive–those who do come back changed in some way. Choose one of the following features.

Ability Score Improvement

^{4th-level Bloodhunter feature}
When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 12th, 16th and 19th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, you can’t increase an ability score above 20 using this feature. In addition, you may select a single Feat you meet the prerequisites for.

You may also replace one of your skill proficiencies with a skill proficiency offered by this class at 1st level. The proficiency you replace does not need to be from this class.

Lastly, you may do one of the following, representing a change of focus in your occult studies:

• Replace the option you chose for your Crimson Rite feature with one of that feature’s other options.
• Replace the option you chose for your Stigmata feature with one of that feature’s other options.
• Replace the option you chose for your Hunter's Moon feature with one of that feature’s other options.

Extra Attack

^{5th-level Bloodhunter feature}
You can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

The number of attacks increases to three when you reach 28th level in this class.

Brand of Castigation

^{6th-level Bloodhunter feature}
Whenever you damage a creature with your Crimson Rite feature, you can choose to sear an arcane brand of hemocraft magic into it (requires no action). You always know the direction to the branded creature, and each time the branded creature deals damage to you or a creature you can see within 5 feet of you, the creature takes psychic damage equal to your Hunter’s Bane ability modifier (minimum of 1 damage).

Your brand lasts until you dismiss it, or you apply a brand to another creature. Your brand counts as a spell for the purposes of dispel magic, and the spell level is equal to half of your blood hunter level (maximum of 9th level spell).

Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

Hunter's Moon

^{9th-level Bloodhunter feature}
Whenever you learn a new Bloodhunter Occult Teaching or replace an existing one, you can choose from Warlock Invocations or Ranger Exploration Knacks. Your Bloodhunder levels count as Ranger or Warlock levels for the purpose of fulfilling prerequisites.

Additionally, your exposure to the dark side of both monster and man has caused your nights to be plagued with nightmares that wax with the moon’s cycles. Choose one of the following features.

Dark Augementation

^{10th-level Bloodhunter feature}
Arcane blood magic suffuses your body, permanently reinforcing your resilience. Your speed increases by 5 feet, and whenever you make a Strength, Dexterity, or Constitution saving throw, you gain a bonus to the saving throw equal to your Hunter’s Bane ability modifier (minimum of +1).

Brand of Tethering

^{13th-level Bloodhunter feature}
The psychic damage from your Brand of Castigation increases to twice your Hunter’s Bane ability modifier (minimum of 2 damage).

In addition, a branded creature can’t take the Dash action, and if a creature branded by you attempts to teleport or leave their current plane via ability, spell, or portal, they take 4d6 psychic damage and must make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failure, the teleport or plane shift fails.

Dead to Rites

^{14th-level Bloodhunter feature}
While you have a Crimson Rite active, you get a special ability based on the type of rite. You may only benefit from one of these bonuses at a time; if you are holding multiple weapons with different rites active, you choose which one grants you the passive bonus.

Primal Rites

• Rite of the Flame. You have resistance to fire damage. You and everything you wear and carry are unharmed by temperatures as high as 120 degrees Fahrenheit.
• Rite of the Frozen. You have resistance to cold damage. You and everything you wear and carry are unharmed by temperatures as low as -50 degrees Fahrenheit.
• Rite of the Storm. You have resistance to lightning damage. You have a swim speed equal to your movement speed, and you can breathe air and water.
• Rite of the Tarnished. You have resistance to acid damage. Weapons with this rite active upon them deal double damage to Objects and structures.
• Rite of the Viper. You have resistance to poison damage and you have Advantage on saving throws against poison. You know if creatures you can see are resistant or immune to poison damage. If you are immune to poison damage, attacks with your rite damage ignore resistance to poison damage, and treat immunity as resistance.

Esoteric Rites

• Rite of the Dead. You have resistance to necrotic damage. Your weapon emits an eerie light that reveals creatures and objects that are invisible or on the Ethereal plane within 30 feet of it.
• Rite of the Oracle. You have resistance to psychic damage. You understand all spoken languages. Moreover, any creature that can understand a language can understand what you say.
• Rite of the Roar. You have resistance to thunder damage. Your voice can carry up to 300 feet. Additionally, creatures can always hear you, even if they are deafened.
• Rite of the Dawn (Ghostslayer Only). You have resistance to radiant damage. Your maximum hit point total cannot be reduced.

Hardened Soul

^{14th-level Bloodhunter feature}
Mystic blood magic protects your mind, permanently reinforcing your willpower. Whenever you make a Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma saving throw, you gain a bonus to the saving throw equal to your Hunter’s Bane ability modifier (minimum of +1).

Sanguine Mastery

^{20th-level Bloodhunter feature}
You hone your control over blood magic, mitigating your sacrifice and empowering your capability. Once per turn, whenever a blood hunter feature requires you to roll a hemocraft die, you can choose to reroll the die and choose which result to use.

In addition, whenever you score a critical hit with a weapon attack empowered by your Crimson Rite, you regain one expended use of your Blood Maledict feature. Immediately after dealing damage, you may choose to end the Crimson Rite on the weapon you scored a critical hit with and activate a special Flourish based on the type of Rite you ended.

Primal Rites

• Rite of the Flame. Your target begins burning for 4d6 fire damage. These flames cannot be doused by water or allies, and the DC to end the effect is equal to your Hemocraft save DC.
• Rite of the Frozen. Your target immediately begins Freezing. The DC to avoid becoming Frozen is equal to your Hemocraft save DC.
• Rite of the Storm. Your target is wreathed in a magic localized storm for 1 minute. A creature affected by this storm cannot take reactions and has its movement speed halved. A creature affected by the storm can make a Constitution saving throw at the end of its turn, ending the effect on a success.
• Rite of the Tarnished. Choose an item being worn or carried by the creature. If it is nonmagical, the item is destroyed. If it is magical, it loses its magical properties for 1 hour and the creature must make a Dexterity saving throw. On a failure, the item’s rarity is reduced by 1 step, which may remove or change its effects. If the item was Uncommon, it is rendered nonmagical and loses all of its properties. Artifacts, legendary items, and items made of indestructible materials like adamantine are immune to this effect.
• Rite of the Viper. Your target becomes Poisoned for 1 minute. While poisoned in this way, it takes 4d6 poison damage at the beginning of its turn. A creature can make a Constitution saving throw at the end of its turn, ending the effect on a success.

Esoteric Rites

• Rite of the Dead. Your target’s hit point maximum is reduced by an amount equal to the necrotic damage you dealt with the critical attack, and you regain hit points equal to that amount. Healing in excess of your maximum hit points becomes temporary hit points.
• Rite of the Oracle. Your target must make an Intelligence saving throw or become Stunned for 1 minute. At the end of the creature's turn, it may repeat this saving throw, ending the effect on a success.
• Rite of the Roar. Your target is sheathed in booming energy and is Deafened for 1 minute. While Deafened in this way, it takes 2d8 thunder damage the first time it willingly moves at least 5 feet each turn. Whenever it takes this damage, it can make a Strength saving throw, ending the effect on a success.
• Rite of the Dawn (Ghostslayer Only). Each creature of your choice that you can see within 30 feet of the weapon must make a Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, a creature takes 4d8 radiant damage, and it is Blinded for 1 minute. On a successful save, a creature takes half as much damage and isn’t blinded. At the end of each of its turns, a blinded creature can make a Constitution saving throw, ending the effect on itself on a success.

Epic Level Bloodhunter: Epic Ability Score Improvement

^{21st-level Bloodhunter feature}
When you reach 21st level, and again at 25th and 29th level, you gain the benefits of an Ability Score Improvement, but your ability score increase can bring an ability score above 20, to a maximum of 24.

Epic Level Bloodhunter: Hemorrhaging Curse

^{22nd-level Bloodhunter feature}
When you amplify a blood curse, you can choose to hemorrhage it by losing the maximum number of hit points on your hemocraft die. A hemorrhaged blood curse gains its amplified effect, as well as the effect noted below.

• Blood Curse of the Anxious. All Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma saving throws the target makes before this curse ends have Disadvantage.
• Blood Curse of Binding. On a failed saving throw, the creature drops Prone and is Restrained.
• Blood Curse of Bloated Agony. The cursed target takes necrotic damage equal to one roll of your Hemocraft Die at the start of each of its turns, plus each time it makes an attack, casts a spell, or uses an Action or Bonus Action.
• Blood Curse of Corrosion. When the curse ends, the creature must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or become Stunned until the end of its next turn as its body recovers.
• Blood Curse of the Exorcist. A creature that fails the Wisdom saving throw is Stunned for 1 minute. At the end of the stunned creature's turn, it takes 3d6 psychic damage and may repeat this saving throw, ending the effect on a success.
• Blood Curse of Exposure. The target instead loses invulnerability, resistance, and any triggering abilities, such as absorbtion, to the damage types of the triggering attack or spell until the end of the turn.
• Blood Curse of the Eyeless. On a failed saving throw, the creature also becomes Blinded until the end of its next turn.
• Blood Curse of Exsanguination. You gain temporary hit points equal to half the necrotic damage dealt.
• Blood Curse of the Fallen Puppet. The creature attacks with Advantage and also adds half your bloodhunter level to its damage roll.
• Blood Curse of the Howl. Affected creatures have Disadvantage on the saving throw.
• Blood Curse of the Marked. The first attack you make against the target each turn is made with Advantage.
• Blood Curse of the Muddled Mind. Whenever the target succeeds on a Constitution saving throw made to maintain concentration on a spell, the target takes psychic damage equal to your Hunter's Bane ability modifier. The target doesn’t need to make a Constitution saving throw to maintain concentration due to this damage.
• Blood Curse of the Plentiful Harvest.' Your weapon attacks against the cursed creature score a critical hit on a 19 or 20. If the creature is also branded by you, you score a critical hit on an 18, 19, or 20.
• Blood Curse of the Poisoned Mind. A creature has Disadvantage on the saving throw to end the Charmed or Frightened condition at the end of its turn unless you dealt damage to it since its last turn.
• Blood Curse of the Silent Scream. At the beginning of the cursed creature's turn, it takes 3d6 thunder damage.
• Blood Curse of Spell Sundering. If your ability check exceeds the DC by 5 or more, you may cast the spell as a part of the same reaction. Use your Hunter's Bane ability as the spellcasting ability modifier.
• Blood Curse of the Souleater. As part of the same reaction you use to usher a soul to your patron, you can immediately cast a spell with a casting time of 1 action.
• Blood Curse of Transfusion. If this healing would bring a creature's hit points above their maximum, they gain temporary hit points equal to half the healing they would have received.

Epic Level Bloodhunter: Stigmatizing Brand

^{24th-level Bloodhunter feature}
You can use your Brand of Castigation twice between rests and the psychic damage from your Brand of Castigation increases to three times your Hunter's Bane ability modifier (minimum of 3 damage).

At 29th level, you can use your Brand of Castigation three times between rests and the psychic damage from your Brand of Castigation increases to four times your Hunter's Bane ability modifier (minimum of 4 damage).

Epic Level Bloodhunter: Mystic Blood

^{25th-level Bloodhunter feature}
Your Bloodhunter hit die increases to 1d12. In addition, your hit point maximum can’t be reduced.

Epic Level Bloodhunter: Master of Curses and Rites

^{26th-level Bloodhunter feature}
At 26th level, the range of your blood curses is doubled. In addition, you learn an additional Esoteric Rite.

Blood Curses

The blood curses you can choose from are listed below in alphabetical order. Special blood curses granted by specific orders are listed in the features that grant them. If a blood curse has a prerequisite, you must meet them to learn it. You can learn the blood curse at the same time that you meet its prerequisite.

This page was last edited on January 30, 2024, at 08:45 PM

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