Beast Master (Adapted)

Primal Spirit

Beginning at 3rd level, you have established a primal link to beasts wild and domestic, granting you an intuitive bond with and shared understanding. You gain proficiency in the Animal Handling skill, and can double your proficiency bonus when making any skill check with it. 

Beast Magic

Starting at 3rd level, you learn an additional spell when you reach certain levels in this class, as shown in the Beast Magic table. The spell counts as a ranger spell for you, but it doesn’t count against the number of ranger spells you know.

Call of the Wild

Animal Companion

At 3rd level, your ever-strengthening bond with Nature manifests as a powerful animal spirit in the form of a beast that is no larger than Medium and that has a challenge rating of 1/4 or lower (although your DM might allow exceptions to this criteria in certain circumstances). Your animal companion uses your proficiency bonus rather than its own, and in addition to the areas where it normally uses its proficiency bonus, it also adds the proficiency bonus to its AC and to its damage rolls. Your animal companion gains proficiency in two additional skills of your choice and becomes proficient with all saving throws. For each level you gain after 3rd, your animal companion gains an additional hit die and increases its hit points accordingly. Whenever you gain the Ability Score Improvement class feature, your companion’s abilities also improve, subject to the same terms.

Companion's Bond

Your animal companion receives a number of benefits while it is linked to you, but loses its Multiattack action, if it has one. It obeys your commands as best it can and acts on your initiative. You determine its actions, decisions, attitudes, and so on. Doing so requires no action by you, unless you direct it to take the Attack action, which then requires the use of your either your bonus action or your action. (Through your Extra Attack feature, you also can make one weapon attack yourself when your companion takes the Attack action using your action). If you are incapacitated or absent, your companion acts on its own.

Your companion also gains a number of features for as long as it is linked to you:

• While traveling outdoors with only the companion, you can both move stealthily at a normal pace.
• Your animal companion gains the benefits of your Favored Enemy feature (if you have that feature) and uses the same favored enemies you selected for those features.
• When you gain the Land's Stride and Feral Senses features, the benefits granted by those features also apply to your companion.

The companion can spend its hit dice during a short rest to regain hit points and rolls death saving throws if brought to zero hit points. If your animal companion is ever slain, the magical bond you share with its nature spirit allows you to return it to life. With 8 hours of work and the expenditure of 50 gp worth of rare herbs and fine food, you call forth your companion’s spirit and use your magic to create a new body for it. You can return an animal companion to life in this manner even if you do not possess any part of its body. 

Your companion shares your alignment, and has a personality trait and a flaw that you select. Your companion shares your ideal, and its bond is always, "The ranger with whom I am bonded is a beloved companion who has my full trust and protection.” 

Preternatural Bond

The preternatural bond shared between you and your companion draws its energy from the Fey Wild, and enables nuanced conveyance and sensory enhancements to flow between you. From 7th level, your companion gains advantage on all saving throws (including death saving throws) as long as one of you is within sight of the other. 

In addition, your companion's attacks count as magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage.

Bestial Fury

Starting at 11th level, when your animal companion takes the Attack action, it can make two attacks, or it can take the Multiattack action if it has that action.

Share Spells

The connection between you and your animal companion is subliminal, yet profound. Beginning at 15th level, when you cast a spell targeting yourself, you can also affect your beast companion with the spell if the beast is within 30 feet of you.