Skirmisher

Many warriors fight alongside beasts of the world, many rangers fight and track with beasts by their side as tools; Fighter's of this archetype battle with their beasts as equals, learning from each other and growing together as they battle their way through the world.

Bonus Proficiency

When you choose this archetype at 3rd level, you gain proficiency in animal handling, if you already have this proficiency, you gain proficiency in one of the following: insight, nature, persuasion or survival.

Battle Companion

By 3rd level, you have formed a powerful bond with a creature that will now bind you two as friends and warriors. Your Battle Compnion is friendly to you and your companions, and it obeys your commands. See this creature's game statistics in the battle companion stat block. You determine the creature's appearance, this must be a beast of some kind; your choice has no effect on its game statistics.
In combat, the battle companion 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, unless you take a bonus action on your turn to command it to take one of the actions in its stat block or the Dash, Disengage, Help, Hide or Search action.
As an action, you can touch your battle companion and expend and roll and number of Hit Dice. The battle companion regains a number of hit points equal to the total rolled. If it has died within the last hour, you can expend 5 Hit Dice and spend 1 minute to roll a d20, on a roll of 10 or highwe, the battle companion is revived with 1 hit point.
At the end of a long rest , if your battle companion is dead, you can call a new battle companion from the wilds to serve you.

 

Battle Bonded

At 3rd level, the flow of battle between you and your companion is fluid and skilled.

When you take the attack action on your turn, any attack you make with that action can be replaced with an attack from your battle companion. You make this choice for each attack.

Hunting Instincts

By 7th level, you have trained and adapted to become one with the natural world.

• You have advantage on Wisdom (perception) checks made to track creatures.
• You can track other creatures while travelling at a fast pace.
• You can move stealthily while travelling at a normal apce. (see chapter 8 for rules on travel pace)

Vengeful Companions

Starting at 10th level, you nd your companions look out for each other in combat. When either you or your companion take damage from an attack, the other can use its reaction to take the damage instead, provided they are within 5 feet. After using this reaction both you and your companion have advantage on attack rolls until the end of the attacking creatures next turn.

Hound Of War

At 15th level, your battle companion has trained just as hard as you, becoming more skilled and dangerous.

• Your battle companion gains a +2 bonus to Armor Class
• Whenever your battle companion hits a target with an attack, it deals extra damage equal to your proficiency bonus.

Furious Spirit's

At 18th level, both you and your companion become warriors bound by spirit and skill.

Whenever you use your Action Surge feature, your companion can take an additional action on its turn. Additionally you can now expend uses of your Indomitable feature whenever your battle companion fails a saving throw.