Base Class: Ranger
There are many beasts that stalk the wilds and for every beast there is a hunter. Some hunters form a mystical bond with a beast, whether through situation or circumstance you have found yourself connected to a spirit of the hunt.
Hunters Bond
Additionally at 3rd level you learn the hunters mark spell if you didn't already know it, further more the bond between you and your hound allows it to benefit from the effects against the marked target.
Hound Companion
3rd-Level Hound MasterFeature
As an action, you can magically summon the hound that is bound to you. It appears in an unoccupied space of your choice within 30 feet of you.
The hound is friendly to you and your companions, and it obeys your commands. See its game statistics in the accompanying Hound Companion stat block, which uses your proficiency bonus (PB) in several places. Whenever you summon the hound, you can determine the cosmetic characteristics of the hound, such as its color or its fur texture; your choice has no effect on its game statistics.
In combat, the hound shares your initiative count, but it takes its turn immediately after yours. It can move and use its reaction on its own, but the only action it takes on its turn is the Dodge action, unless you take a bonus action on your turn to command it to take another action. That action can be one in its stat block or some other action. If you are incapacitated, the hound can take any action of its choice, not just Dodge.
The hound remains until it is reduced to 0 hit points, until you use this feature to summon the hound again, or until you die. Anything the hound was wearing or carrying is left behind when the hound vanishes.
Once you summon the hound, you can’t do so again until you finish a long rest, unless you expend a spell slot of 1st level or higher to summon it.
hound Companion
Medium Beast
Armor Class 13 + PB (natural armor)
Hit Points 5 + five times your ranger level (the drake has a number of Hit Dice [d10s] equal to your ranger level)
Speed 40 ft.
Saving Throws Dex +1 plus PB, Wis +2 plus PB
Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 12
Languages Understands one language that you share but cannot speak
Challenge — Proficiency Bonus (PB) equals your bonus
Keen Hearing and Smell. The hound has advantage on Wisdom(Perception) checks that rely on hearing or smell.
Pack Tactics. The hound has advantage on an attack roll against a creature if at least one of the hound's allies is within 5ft. of the creature and the ally isn't incapacitated.
Actions
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +3 plus PB to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 2d4 plus PB piercing damage. If the target is a creature, it must succeed on a Strength saving throw or be knocked prone, the DC equals your spell save DC.
Empowered Companion
Starting at 7th level your hound companion can make two attacks instead of one when commanded to take the attack action.
Deepened Bond
Additionally at 7th level your bond with your hound companion deepens. once per long rest as an action you can connect your senses to your hound allowing you to see and hear what it hears so long as you are both on the same plane of existence. During this connection you are blinded and deafened to your own surroundings.
Trained Companion
Starting at 11th level your hound benefits from the bonuses granted by your favored enemy and natural explorer features, or favored foe and deft explorer should you have chosen them instead.
Matured Hound
15th-Level Hound Master Feature
At 15th level, your bond to your hound reaches the pinnacle of its power granting the following benefits:
Empowered Bite. The hound’s Bite attack damage changes from 2d4 to 2d6.
Large Hound. The hound grows to Large size and can be ridden as a large animal provided you are size medium or smaller.
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