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[Dwarmin]

Spoiler: Spell less Ranger~Summary and notes (click to show/hide)

Combat Superiority

At 2nd level, you learn maneuvers that are fueled by special dice called superiority dice.

Maneuvers. You learn two maneuvers of your choice, which are chosen from the list of maneuvers available to fighters with the Battle Master archetype. Many maneuvers enhance an attack in some way. You can use only one maneuver per attack.

You learn one additional maneuver of your choice at 5th, 9th, 13th, and 17th levels. Each time you learn a new maneuver, you can also replace one maneuver you know with a different one.

Superiority Dice. You have four superiority dice, which are d8s. A superiority die is expended when you use it. You regain all of your expended superiority dice when you finish a short or long rest.

You gain another superiority die at 9th level and one more at 17th level.

Saving Throws. Some of your maneuvers require your target to make a saving throw to resist the maneuver’s effects. The saving throw DC is calculated as follows:

Maneuver save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Strength or Dexterity modifier (your choice)

Poultices

At 3rd level, you can create special herbal poultices that have healing power comparable to some potions. You can spend 1 hour gathering herbs and preparing herbal poultices using treated bandages to create a number of such poultices equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum 1). You can carry a number of poultices at one time equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum 1). The poultices you create cannot be applied by anyone but you. After 24 hours, any poultices that you have not used lose their potency.

If you spend 1 minute applying one of your poultices to a wounded humanoid creature, thereby expending its use, that creature regains 1d6 hit points for every two ranger levels you have (rounded up).

((As an Urban Ranger modification, I suggest instead of strictly gathering herbs, the scavenging roll could be expanded story wise to account for Eleen browsing merchants stalls and seeking out good deals in the warrens of the city, as cities tend to lack a lot of plantlife. This will obviously cost a hard currency, so healing is not too OP, depending on the prices you set.))

Primeval Awareness Mod
This ability requires the ranger to expend spell slots to activate the class feature, we can modify that feature to allow the ranger to use it once and regain its use after finishing a short or long rest.

((I suggest this ability be slightly nerfed, as it is not a supernatural ability in this setting-I wouldn't be able to detect an invisible face eating demon a mile away. However, it would account for her bearing wary of the presence of monsters, gangs, guards, or even churchmen, by listening to rumors and keeping an ear our for local gossip-I suggest a a 5 minute duration when Eleen uses this ability, at the end of which it is determined if these sorts of people/things are in the area close to her. WIS and CHA checks maybe will be needed, as well.))

Natural Antivenom

Starting at 9th level, you have advantage on saving throws against poison and have resistance to poison damage. Additionally, you can use one of your poultices to cure one poison effect on the creature you are applying it to, in addition to restoring hit points.

Call Natural Allies

Starting at 13th level, when you are in an area of your favored terrain, you can call natural creatures from that terrain to fight on your behalf, using your attunement to the natural world to convince them to aid you. The DM chooses beasts appropriate to the terrain to come to your aid from among those that could hear you and that are within 1 mile of you, in one of the following groups:

    One beast of challenge rating 2 or lower
    Two beasts of challenge rating 1 or lower
    Four beasts of challenge rating 1/2 or lower
    Eight beasts of challenge rating 1/4 or lower

These beasts approach you from their current location, and will fight alongside you, attacking any creatures that are hostile to you. They are friendly to you and your comrades, and you roll initiative for the called creatures as a group, which takes its own turns. The DM has the creatures’ statistics.

After 1 hour, these beasts return to their previous location. Once you use this feature, you cannot use it again in the same general area for 24 hours, since the same animals will not repeatedly heed your call.
Relentless

((An interesting concept, and I suggest as an Urban ranger this ability actually summons humanoids-Eleens friends and allies from the streets. It will be more complex, since they shouldn't be expendable fodder. The quality and number will depend on who exactly she could call in the era, and her relationships with various factions. Lots of room for GM innovation!))

Beastly Coordination~
Beginning at 15th level, when an attacker that you can see hits your beast companion with an attack, you can call out a warning. If your beast companion can hear you, it can use its reaction to halve the attack’s damage against it.

Starting at 17th level, when you roll initiative and have no superiority dice remaining, you regain 1 superiority die.

Btw Gig, I know you approve maneuvers for ranger but did you approve everything else, the whole spell-less ranger thing? I listed a bunch of notes, but you did not comment on them.

[Dwarmin]

**cracks knuckles**

Looks like it's up to me to make the docks slang for the entire city of Sleangate.

[Dwarmin]

1st edition!

General Slang
Wards~ Written signs that declare what a place is. Doesn't usually include the actual name.
Jimjim~ To break open with force.
A box of bones~ A dice rollers cup, particularly one owned by a tough guy, or a thug. Most dice in Sleangate are made of whale and krakenbone.
Five hundred-ton tango~ Something very hard, but worth the effort. A reference to taken down the biggest and most valuable of Krakens, which are considered to be two thousand pounds or more-a tango is a foreign dance that has come to mean interacting with something foreign, strange, and exotic-from Tango Folk (weirdos), Tango Fruit (really odd tasting) to Tango Lights-the strange fires seen at night on some ships.
Circus~ A big battle between two groups of people, sometimes planned, sometimes not.
Bracks~ The dirty, brackish water around Sleangate. Not suggested to swim in.
Deckers~ A word that stands for the docks, and in particular, the huge tower-decks Krakens are hung and filleted on before heading to the slaughter houses.
A pair of planks~ A small group of unlucky, dull, or foolish people. Also, a really bad hand in a card game.
Holding your oaks~ Being shipwrecked and floating in ocean, clinging for life.
Left handed shooter~ A term for a liar.

People and Things
Grinners~ Sharks.
Singers~ Whales and Dolphins.
Blackwater Barons~ Another term for Krakens, the best ones anyway.
Blackwater Queens~ The biggest, most elusive of Krakens. It's known that the largest of them are females. 'Blackwater' is said to be the deepest, richest and most dangerous Kraken hunting grounds.
Freshet~ An outsider, particularly one who seems innocent, from a Freshet-meaning a spill of fresh water coming down from the mountains. Also a term for someone naive, and easy to kill-a Freshet of easily shed blood.
Bangarang/Bangajangs~ A fellow or a lady whose fun to hang out with...and a bit dangerous, too. Also a less used term for a throwing grenade or similar explosive device.
Billetboys~ Local soldiery, particularly unwelcome ones.
Shortjohns and Longjohns~ Sailors, both coastal (short) and deep sea (long)
Silkies~ Slang for whores, more accurately, prosperous ones.
Marmi~ A young and polite lady
Kettlehats~ A term for the city guard. The most polite one, anyway.
Flaggers~ A disparaging term for members of the Church.
O'narchies~ Anarchists. Also a good term for lunatics.
Crankers~ Factory workers. Disparaging.

Ways to die
Greased~ Ending up in a Krakens belly. It's grimly joked that what's left of unlucky sailors make up a good deal of the oil harvested from Krakens.
Ready for the Pot~ A Sailors term for the worse scenario-alive, in the water, with a hungry Kraken below you.
Filleted~ Being killed by a knife or sword.
Socketed~ Dying from a gunshot. Originates from the clunky appearance of primitive firearms.
Well Sprung~ Drowning. A terrible pun.
Passed into Song~ Died heroically.
Fogs got him/her~ Vanished, never to be seen again. The 'Fogs' are a spook story, a source of old fear in Sleangate, and feature in many frightening local stories.
Tidewrung~ A common source of execution in Sleangate-being chained to the piers, and left to drown by the Guards at high tide for your crimes.

[GiglameshDespair]

Spoiler: Spell less Ranger~Summary and notes (click to show/hide)

Combat Superiority

At 2nd level, you learn maneuvers that are fueled by special dice called superiority dice.

Maneuvers. You learn two maneuvers of your choice, which are chosen from the list of maneuvers available to fighters with the Battle Master archetype. Many maneuvers enhance an attack in some way. You can use only one maneuver per attack.

You learn one additional maneuver of your choice at 5th, 9th, 13th, and 17th levels. Each time you learn a new maneuver, you can also replace one maneuver you know with a different one.

Superiority Dice. You have four superiority dice, which are d8s. A superiority die is expended when you use it. You regain all of your expended superiority dice when you finish a short or long rest.

You gain another superiority die at 9th level and one more at 17th level.

Saving Throws. Some of your maneuvers require your target to make a saving throw to resist the maneuver’s effects. The saving throw DC is calculated as follows:

Maneuver save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Strength or Dexterity modifier (your choice)

Poultices

At 3rd level, you can create special herbal poultices that have healing power comparable to some potions. You can spend 1 hour gathering herbs and preparing herbal poultices using treated bandages to create a number of such poultices equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum 1). You can carry a number of poultices at one time equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum 1). The poultices you create cannot be applied by anyone but you. After 24 hours, any poultices that you have not used lose their potency.

If you spend 1 minute applying one of your poultices to a wounded humanoid creature, thereby expending its use, that creature regains 1d6 hit points for every two ranger levels you have (rounded up).

((As an Urban Ranger modification, I suggest instead of strictly gathering herbs, the scavenging roll could be expanded story wise to account for Eleen browsing merchants stalls and seeking out good deals in the warrens of the city, as cities tend to lack a lot of plantlife. This will obviously cost a hard currency, so healing is not too OP, depending on the prices you set.))

Primeval Awareness Mod
This ability requires the ranger to expend spell slots to activate the class feature, we can modify that feature to allow the ranger to use it once and regain its use after finishing a short or long rest.

((I suggest this ability be slightly nerfed, as it is not a supernatural ability in this setting-I wouldn't be able to detect an invisible face eating demon a mile away. However, it would account for her bearing wary of the presence of monsters, gangs, guards, or even churchmen, by listening to rumors and keeping an ear our for local gossip-I suggest a a 5 minute duration when Eleen uses this ability, at the end of which it is determined if these sorts of people/things are in the area close to her. WIS and CHA checks maybe will be needed, as well.))

Natural Antivenom

Starting at 9th level, you have advantage on saving throws against poison and have resistance to poison damage. Additionally, you can use one of your poultices to cure one poison effect on the creature you are applying it to, in addition to restoring hit points.

Call Natural Allies

Starting at 13th level, when you are in an area of your favored terrain, you can call natural creatures from that terrain to fight on your behalf, using your attunement to the natural world to convince them to aid you. The DM chooses beasts appropriate to the terrain to come to your aid from among those that could hear you and that are within 1 mile of you, in one of the following groups:

    One beast of challenge rating 2 or lower
    Two beasts of challenge rating 1 or lower
    Four beasts of challenge rating 1/2 or lower
    Eight beasts of challenge rating 1/4 or lower

These beasts approach you from their current location, and will fight alongside you, attacking any creatures that are hostile to you. They are friendly to you and your comrades, and you roll initiative for the called creatures as a group, which takes its own turns. The DM has the creatures’ statistics.

After 1 hour, these beasts return to their previous location. Once you use this feature, you cannot use it again in the same general area for 24 hours, since the same animals will not repeatedly heed your call.
Relentless

((An interesting concept, and I suggest as an Urban ranger this ability actually summons humanoids-Eleens friends and allies from the streets. It will be more complex, since they shouldn't be expendable fodder. The quality and number will depend on who exactly she could call in the era, and her relationships with various factions. Lots of room for GM innovation!))

Beastly Coordination~
Beginning at 15th level, when an attacker that you can see hits your beast companion with an attack, you can call out a warning. If your beast companion can hear you, it can use its reaction to halve the attack’s damage against it.

Starting at 17th level, when you roll initiative and have no superiority dice remaining, you regain 1 superiority die.

Btw Gig, I know you approve maneuvers for ranger but did you approve everything else, the whole spell-less ranger thing? I listed a bunch of notes, but you did not comment on them.

Most is all good, but...

I'm not so sure about the call natural allies... there's something comedic about the image of you just yelling "mob 'im, lads!" and a horde of people just pour out of an alley to beat your enemies. It would also feel like quite a disconnect they just show up, fight for a bit, then disappear again.

[Dwarmin]

I'm not so sure about the call natural allies... there's something comedic about the image of you just yelling "mob 'im, lads!" and a horde of people just pour out of an alley to beat your enemies. It would also feel like quite a disconnect they just show up, fight for a bit, then disappear again.

Lol, yeah...well, like I said, it will be complex. They can't be summoned like expendable beasts and then depart-it will almost be as if I took a temporary cohort feat, even if those don't exist in 5e. I'll have to organize them beforehand, they have to come from a group I am friendly with, I have to make sure they are paid well or profit from helping me, and keep them from dying or being badly injured. I like the idea of having a little reinforcement from the streets.

Also, no opinion on my slang? I had a bit of a inspiration attack there...

[Twinwolf]

The phrase "Church Giants" brings back memories from Bloodborne...

...You haven't been playing that recently, have you?

[GiglameshDespair]

Slang seems good, I might sprinkle some of that in in places.

Yeah, I remember seeing Leadership being banned a lot in 3.5. Anyway, that's not something you really should have to take a feat to do; it doesn't take someone exceptional to hire some flunkies (but perhaps to keep those flunkies from legging it when they face a Beast).

I feel that forcing you to pay and organise an ability like that also makes it less than great as a feat... and then it feels like another arbitrary restriction to only be summoned for X minutes a day. So I'm kinda of two minds, but both somewhat disapprove.

I'll think on it a bit more, perhaps.

[Dwarmin]

Yeah, if it has to be changed so much from it's base ability, it's probably not worth it.

[Twinwolf]

Maybe summon some animals you might find in a city? Pidgeons won't do much to a person, but a wild dog might.

[Dwarmin]

Maybe Rangers in the old days could call on animals mystically, but with no magic in the world it stretches the imagination that I can even command my own bird as I will.

[GiglameshDespair]

Summon the seagull swarms!

[Dwarmin]

Btw, how long have our characters been waiting? I feel we're supposed to be doing something!

*proceeds to charge down the door*

[GiglameshDespair]

Turns out Aliz Tannerson is the beast!

You are all then eaten by Grue!Aliz.

But my next update will move things along.