10 Unique Ideas For Your Next D&D Ranger Character Build | Reflavoring Your Abilities
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- Wandering around for ideas for your next Ranger character? Want to bring new life to your trope or archetype? Lets look at rangers that traverse the river Styx or some that are proficient in a trebuchets! We will take the shot and make a concept a little more in your FAVOR!
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1:14 The Clairvoyant
2:19 The Crossroad
3:08 The Sentinel
4:20 The Eldritch Tamer
5:28 Be apart of it!
5:49 The Expert
6:44 The Explorer
7:42 The Watchman
8:30 The Siege
9:33 The Zen Archer
10:16 The Bounty Hunter
11:18 What Next?
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Tell me about your unique ranger characters!! 🎯
My first Ranger (also my first real character) was fairly standard, but my current vampire Druid I mentioned earlier is a multiclass with Swarmkeeper lol
Ive played a swarm keeper gnome and a whip wielding gloom stalker bug bear
My first ranger was a hunter ranger, a pest exterminator who got cursed into being a wererat (officially a swiftstride shifter) after stumbling into a rat throne room while on the job.
My second, and currently final, was a warforged horizon walker who acted as a sentry for a military base that is now abandoned and overgrown.
@@jerrymajors8132 so cool!!
Imagine a Swarmkeeper who's a kind of desert wanderer, constantly surrounded by a swirling, billowing mass of sand.
Sadly haven't gotten to play this one yet, but I have a Drow Swarmkeeper Ranger, whose spirits manifest as spiders and is, or at least believes she is, a favored child of Lolth. Fun fact, Favored Enemy applies to all Int checks pertaining to that creature type, including Investigation. So, by focusing on Humanoid types, she could be very good at digging up rumors and dirt on various people. With DM approval, of course.
Oh absolutely!! Hope you get to play it soon!
Thanks. Thought gossamer webs would be great for all the movement options of the subclass. Plus, this social engineer/sabateur approach gives me an urban option that contrasts the typical stoic survivalist stereotype and fits in with Drow lore overall.
I think there’s a lot of potential flavor in blood hunter so seeing an episode on it even if the class is third party would be awesome
Oh I agree!
I agree that Rangers have a lot of reflavor options. My favorite subclass for that would be the Swarmkeeper. You can easily flavor the "swarm" as many other things, my favorite would be the elements themselves. Have an Earth Genasi who's "swarm" are floating rocks around them and they follow arrows to add the extra piercing damage. Or have the ranger have a seed attached to the arrow (with the Gatgered Swarm ability), if the enemy fails their strength save, a vine erupts from the seed and connects to the ground and pulls them up to 15 ft. Also tree roots could sprout from your ranger and move them 5 ft. with the other option of Gathered Swarm to move them out of harms way. Can also invision this with water and wind and then put this flavor into your spells. If you use water, your "swarm" can spread out and seep into the earth and cause the spell Plant Growth when you channel your "swarm".
Truly enjoy your series and can't wait to see where you go next. Hope you and everyone in the community have a blessed day!
Absolutely! Love the flavors! Had a npC who was actually just a collection of lobsters all lumped together in humanoid form. Great subclass!
@@TheClericCorner that's awesome! I want to play a living marionette puppet who's a Swarmkeeper. They'd just have a floating wooden X above them (a control bar) with strings attached (creating some mystery if they are in fact acting on their own or being controlled). Also flavor all the Gatgered Swarm abilities with strings and wires as well as the special mage hand they get. Same with the Writhing Tide ability could be the floating control bar could cause them to float/fly about. Casting Pass Without Trace on the party makes more strings appear and attach to them and then everyone feels like they are being slightly controlled but are using the buff to get out of the situation. Lots of different but fun things to do with this one.
@@callmeb.o.b.824 oh gosh, a marionette would creep me out so much 😂 love it though!
My personal favorite swarm: NANOBOTS
The last time I played a ranger it was a half-drow gloomstalker that operated on a supersoldier style of flavoring ala final fantasy 7. He was created by mindflayers as a sort of high-end militia to high-class buyers. He was one of many. His spells and tracking abilities was psychically minded, his ability to sense his enemies coming his ability to sense their minds, his insane accuracy and reflexes attributed to the modifications made to his body by these mindflayers. He spent the majority of his life believing that he was a half-drow whose mother dropped him off at a military base, until he took a leave of absence trying to find his mother and eventually found out the full truth. Spent most of the campaign asking certain drow if they knew the house symbol of the necklace his mother left him. Was pretty quiet for the most part out of shyness, but went into immediate kill-mode the second he detected an enemy, out of a sort of programming.
I really love this!
Intro was pure gold 😀
Thanks!! 😂
(Also if you're ever interested in different damage types for the conjure barrage spells I recommend getting your hands on simple poisons, holy water, vials of acid, and Alchemist fire for options of Poison Radiant Acid and Fire rather than the simple bludgeoning piercing and slashing that you'd typically have)
I have a Ranger idea that I've been kicking around. So far I've just multi-classed him to stay within 5e guidelines so basically he's a Fey Wanderer/Valor Bard. I call him Belissimo, "The Song Ranger" and he walks through the forest like a Disney musical. When he sings, every creature and plant within earshot must make a saving through or join in with either song, dance or improvised musical instrument. The enchantment ends when the song/dance routine is over or Belissimo moves beyond hearing and everyone who participated is happy and rejuvenated.
Ooohhh! I really love the undead flavored one (and also the "blood hunter" one) i would totally take swarmkeeper and like conjure ghosts to help cast mage hand or do the stuff that the swarm does.
Great video, Ryker!!
Ooh, great idea!! Thanks, Cardboard! 😊
I have a strange idea for a Beast Master Ranger. An inverse Beast Master.
A beast that has gained sentience through magical means (Tasha's Custom Lineage). They are now using a humanoid that they have trained to fight like an animal. So basically an Ape that commands a Tarzan esque humanoid.
I have to admit, rangers are my favorite class. Great ideas!
Rangers are so good!! Thank you ☺️
I played rangers alot and I've done the ferryman/bounty hunter persona before as a bounty hunter who was working off a debt by hunting the souls/ corpses of the recently dead and sending them to afterlife (with the monster hunter ranger). I've also done the export/explorer build with the drakewarden who was a mix of milo from atlantis and hiccup.
Dwayne Johnson's character in jungle cruise could be a good basis for a ranger.
Also please do Blood Hunter, I have a friend wanting to play them and he doesn't want to do the witcher/ van helsing character he said he liked the idea of the science experiment gone wrong (shifter, lycan blood hunter who dips beast barbarian later)
Your full of good ideas! And your right, its hard to get away from the witcher feel!
@@TheClericCorner thank you, it's the dm curse I'm afraid. I'm mainly dm so when I get to play, it's usually bonkers characters who may or may not be npcs from my games
@@stugod5000 I feel you 😂
Ranger Ideas:
The Freelancer: A true Jack of All Trades. They learn skills from the party members and non-player characters. Everything from weapon use to spell casting to skill usage. For this build, I am throwing in two levels of Bard just for the Jack of All Trades feature (nothing else). Then Ranger for the rest of the way. They learn stuff from everybody. For subclass, I am going for Hunter. Honestly, any subclass is fine.
The Inverse Beast Master: You are a beast who raised a humanoid. This humanoid is your pet who you have trained to fight like you. Perhaps you are an ape who trained a Tarzan-esque individual to fight like you. This requires custom lineage.
The Siren: Yep a Fey Wonderer Ranger whose enticing voice can mess with the heads of their foes. Custom lineage required.
The Swarm: So Swarmkeeper Ranger however you do not summon a swarm. You are the swarm. Pick any kind of swarm. This could be spiders, insects, rats, etc. Another custom lineage.
The Telekinetic: Like Swarmkeeper but instead of having a swarm, you are just a telekinetic person moving objects with your mind. As you use your "swarm" like abilities a corona of magical energy surrounds you. This could be psionics. All of your Ranger spells are also just psionics or some other magical effect. Replace all the nature flavoring with psionics and voila. Also, grab Telekinetic feat.
Sounds like you're in-tune with my swarmkeeper video!
Awesome video dude , i also believe mire video like these can open new ideas for people
I agree theres a lots of ways to refavor a blood hunter as well cuase the i saw a medium sheild as one of there proficiency from what i seen i only saw people playing it with only melee weapon so i look forward to seeing the idea for blood hunter
I definitely think there isn't anything bad with more Creativity! 😊 You got it!
I actually do have a game coming up for Waterdeep. I wanted my character to work in the City of the dead, and watching this video has helped to cement my feelings and my concept. Jacob, the crystal dragonborn and former soldier who gave up his life in the army after he saw what it was turning him into. He took up work in the city of the dead to honour the fallen, and try to ease his conscious. He has a family now and has mellowed out a lot, but when he finds someone who has raised the undead, he enters that rage that made him into a killing machine when he fought, and tears them apart. Thank you for helping me to look beyond just what the class is, and ways to apply flavour.
Sounds like an amazing concept! Excited for you!!
This is a fantastic and creative video for rangers I love it, a little while ago I was trying to homebrew rangers and someone challenged me on pretty much the topic of this video and how ranger players are all the same so I wrote this out to help show the variation in rangers you could easily achieve …
Also man I can think of tonnes of dnd rangers in media from Aragorn to faramir, geralt of rivia, van helsing , the mandalorian, Trevor Belmont, hector from the tangled cartoon with the two honey badger and a rhino, or every ranger in the rangers apprentice series, or what about the og Robin Hood, people say he’s just a longbow fighter but the dude lives out in the wilderness for years, that and most else about him screams ranger, hagrid with his many magical pets, knowledge of the forbidden forest and crossbow skills Is a prime ranger, kraven the hunter who has hunted every known beast and turned to heroes, he uses all manner of traps clothing based on the beasts he killed and many more weapons taken from those he’s hunted
Rangers can be many things to ...
Professional monster hunters (Geralt/ Belmont/ Hellsing)
Bounty hunters (mando)- hunting specific targets in the world
Outlaws (Robin Hood) - looking out for your own survival
Knights (faramir, tangled guy, halt) -serving your kingdom behind enemy lines or a specific area of said kingdom
Druids chosen warrior - going out on a mission of spiritual importance
The village hunter - collecting food and protecting your settlement
Cowboys/sheriffs- protection of livestock and keeping the law in small obscure villages
I've made a character for a fallout game they're a ghoul cowboy (using reborn lineage as the base race because it fits ghouls extremely well) and they're a hunter ranger and I'm going to pick up the horde breaker and volley Features (because they actually work together surprisingly well) so I can fan the hammer on my revolver or quickfire my lever action rifle (also if you want to empower this phb subclass I recommend allowing them to take all the feature options from the subclass rather than having to choose one while also having these additional spells always prepared
(Chosen for their uses as surveillance spells and minor buff spells that would fit)
Find Familiar
Blur
Slow
Arcane Eye
Far Step
That mud mephit idea. I dig it! Fun ideas here, well done!
Thanks Wally!
Another amazing video from my favorite dnd youtuber. Can you tell me where you got that fun hoodie?
I had a friend play a Swarmkeeper at our table one time, and I really didn’t understand how fantastic the archetype was at the time. She was like a little plague doctor, and her spells and abilities were all flavored around rats. It was fantastic, and I’ll never forgot Antoinette!
ooh i have a new concept for a ranger -- a member of the wild hunt from various european mythologies! idk what subclass would fit it tho, but i think it would be cool to use that as a concept for this
The survival class teacher, the border patrol, the navigator,any animal farmer or a land surveyor.
Cleric I would love to hear your take on how to reflavor Feats. Plus since there are a lot of them, this would be also a great source of content for you.
Cool video, my current Ranger is a swarm keeper. They are mechanically a warforged but they're reflavored to a sentient hive of bees that have taken over an ancient construct.
Holy crap that's awesome!!
@@TheClericCorner Thanks, the cool part has been discovering all the different things I can do. Since warforged don't need to breathe for example, the hive sealed up the body with wax so they can walk underwater. I took the outlander background so I'm able to feed the party with the super nutritious honey they produce. I took the Observant feat and the Canny feature from Tasha's I've set my Perception to near insane levels. My passive perception is 30 at level 5. I'm also using the Druidic Warrior fighting style to get cantrips and use Wisdom as my base stat to attack.
I guess I mentioned this one already... A horizon walker who originated from who knows where (her world is under the dying sun, it's infested with random unstable portals to various bad places for most cases, and it's more technogenic; but is it another planet, another plane, future - who knows) and appeared in a game world through the portal, gaining most her magic powers in that act. I assumed she was a researcher in her world, but it ended up working better with her being in the military. And she also randomly was a drow (from a more dwarf-style society); also way too young for an adult elf in the game world, but I haven't really done anything with this one.
I know jackshit about blood hunter, but either way I would like to see how you could reflavour it
Basically my whole blood magic video lol. But you got it! 😊
Beautiful intro hahahaha
Thank you! One of my favorites to make. Managed to avoid copywrite 😂
I like how this video came out on the day I plan to make a new pc that is a ranger
Whew! Just made it! 😂
@@TheClericCorner liking it so far!!!!
I’m a blood hunter and ranger main and as such I would love a blood hunter vid
And you could even do artificer if youed like
I haven't got a lot of hype for the artificer either! So thank you! 😊
I found a picture of young medusa and gargoyles playing. Thanks to this video I have decided to make an Earth Genasi Swarmkeeper Ranger who hunts down other Earth-Kin and offers them a sanctuary, small spirits add to the swarm big ones go live on my piece of land (probably located where a desert meets the feet of a mountain range).
IDEA: Wild Child Ranger - Their survival knowledge comes from being raised by wild beasts, and their Animal Companion is one of their adoptive parents/siblings (and if they're Fey beasts or Monstrosities, it could also explain where their spellcasting ability comes from).
Nice intro
Thanks 😆
The last ranger I drafted up was an Orc from a clan who believes him the reincarnation of a nature God, who uses a small ballista, ripped from a city wall, as a heavy crossbow. Overall a very soft-spoken person, who spoils his furry companion Farkas
Heck ya!
I also came up with a similar idea. A Goliath Ranger, last of his clan who moved down from the mountains and lived with a herd of gigantic tundra goats, and learned about the forest tundra from them. Idk where to take in spellcasting and such though
I'm building my first character right now, he's an Aarakocra but he's got no wings. (I just want to be an eagle, I don't have to be broken.) I think I'm going to flavor him as a swarmkeeper, and his swarm will be a flurry of his own feathers. He's got amnesia, he's trying to figure out where he came from/who he is. He assumes he's an Aarakocra, but maybe not? Plus, he can fletch his arrows with his own feathers.
Multi-use flavor! Love it!
I like to imagine rangers make the best Brandy from wild berries. That's just me.
Gotta get that goodberry wine too!
I feel like Rangers got screwed when it comes to Cantrips, being a 1/2 Caster they don't get a single Cantrip yet Eldritch Knight is a 1/3 Caster and gets them. I know they aren't primary spellcasters but having a few Cantrips up their sleeves can help them thematically. Druid Cantrips such as Druidcraft, Guidance, and Resistance make sense for the warriors of the wilderness.
At 2nd Level they should get 2 Cantrips, 3 Cantrips at 7th, and 4 at 14th.
I agree, I do wish they had more cantrips!
I love all of these are really great too bad they're already handled by other classes. These are my opinions and they could be wrong. But this is how I feel after watching your video.
The Clairvoyant is an Arcane trickster that focuses on divination
Crossroads is a grave domain Cleric with a twist.
The Sentinel is as you say a horizon Walker Ranger.
Eldritch Tamer it's a very unique Drake Warden, and requires a lot more DM approval then almost any other subclass.
The expert Ranger is basically a Lore bard. Based on how you describe the class. It seems like Bard would be a better fit for that.
The Explorer Ranger is quite literally just the archaeologist Rogue that no one uses.
The Watchman current sounds pretty fun even if it's basically just a Town guard in theme.
The seat Ranger while stonespine requires a very very Niche campaign. I would love to play one but that sounds more like an artificer or a fighter. It's possible that used but it get used just as much as phb Ranger.
Zen Ranger sounds interesting may need a decent amount of work to put together but probably will be liked by a few. We finally get access to psychic damage, nice.
The Bounty Hunter can I feels closer to like a Hunter Ranger with a few tweaks.
Just reminder I did like your video and I hope you keep up the good content
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@@TheClericCorner after watching the video I understand your thought process more, myself is not very imaginative and what you have provide wouldn't work for me. I understand what you are going for. Thanks for the information.
Hey, I just wanted to ask, are you going to do one for blood hunters or is that going to be a no go since it's 3rd party?
There's been a lot of people who want it! So at this point I think I'll have to! 😊
@@TheClericCorner thank you!!
Let me know what you think.
My ranger was raised in a city, but married an elven princess so I live in a castle surrounded by wilderness. My character now acts as an intermediary or emissary between the world of the elves and the people of the city.
This is so random but you have really nice lips and I like watching them move 😂🙊
not to bash on you but I feel like the ideas you gave for this one are the least unique concepts. they all felt like preety common ideas for a ranger.
mabye of exception of clarvoiance one
You must be a creative person then! :)
@@TheClericCorner as i said i dont wanna bash on you because your a creative dude..but most of these felt slightly generic i feel. but you did give some nice flair qnd tools to play them. my favorite video of the series so far is the Rouge one it had a lot of ideas that i felt were cool and unique especially the brawler. keep up the good work
@@skycrafter2042 appreciate the feedback!
@@TheClericCorner keep up the good work my dude love the content and effort you put