Drakewarden (Revised)

Drakewardens are rangers who use their magical connection with nature to form an enduring bond with a minor dragon, a drake. This bond allows the ranger to summon the drake to their side and to share in the awe-inspiring power wielded by dragons.

Consider how your ranger gained their bond with the drake. The Drakewarden Origin table offers some examples.

Drakewarden Origin

Draconic Gift

3rd-level Drakewarden feature

The bond you share with your drake creates a deeper connection to dragon kind, granting you understanding and empowering your presence. You gain the following benefits:

• If you can’t already, you learn to speak, read, and write Draconic.
• You learn the thaumaturgy cantrip, which is a ranger spell for you.

Drake Companion

3rd-level Drakewarden feature

You have formed a primal bond with a minor dragon, a drake. This bond is represented by a physical token. You decide what the token is, or you can determine it randomly by rolling on the Drakewarden's Token table.

Drakewarden's Token

d6	Token
1	Scale
2	Fang
3	Claw
4	Precious Gemstone
5	Vial of Drake Blood
6	Crystallised Tear of a Drake

While you hold the token, you can use an action to call your drake, which appears in an unoccupied space within 30ft of you. If your token is lost or destroyed, you can acquire a new token by performing an hour long ritual, during which your drake must remain within 30ft of you. To perform this ritual you require material components appropriate to your token, the cost of which is equal to 5 x your ranger level in gp. You can use your token as a spellcasting focus for your ranger spells.

The drake is friendly to you and your companions and obeys your commands. See its game statistics in the Drake Companion stat block, which uses your proficiency bonus (PB) in several places. As an action, you can expend a spell slot of 1st level or higher to choose a damage type listed in it's Draconic Essence trait, this action can be taken as part of the same action used to summon the drake. You can determine the cosmetic characteristics of the drake such as its color, scale texture, or any visible effect of its Draconic Essence; your choice has no effect on its game statistics.

In combat, the drake 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 drake can take any action of its choice, not just Dodge.

The drake remains until it is reduced to 0 hit points, at which point it returns to a harmless demiplane. Anything the drake was wearing or carrying is left behind when the drake vanishes. If your drake dies, you can perform a ritual as part of a long rest to revive it. At the end of the rest the drake appears in an unoccupied space within 30ft of you. You can also perform this ritual to summon the drake if you don't have your Drakewarden Token.

DRAKE COMPANION

Small dragon

Armor Class 14 + 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

Damage Immunities determined by the drake’s Draconic Essence trait

Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 12

Languages Draconic

Challenge—

Proficiency Bonus (PB) equals your bonus

Draconic Essence. When you summon the drake, choose a damage type: acid, cold, fire, lightning, or poison. The chosen type determines the drake’s damage immunity, the damage of its bite, and the damage of its Infused Strikes trait.

Actions

Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +3 plus PB to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 1d6 piercing damage plus PB damage of a type determined by the drake’s Draconic Essence.

Reactions

Infused Strikes. When another creature within 30 feet of the drake that it can see hits with a weapon attack, the drake infuses the strike with its essence, causing the attack to deal an extra 1d6 damage of the type determined by its Draconic Essence.

Bond of Fang and Scale

7th-level Drakewarden feature

The bond you share with your drake intensifies, protecting you and stoking the drake’s fury. You and the drake gain the following features:

• The drake grows to Medium size.
• You gain resistance to the damage type chosen for the drake’s Draconic Essence, as long as your Drakewarden Token is in your possession.
• The drake gains a swimming speed of 40ft and can breathe both air and water, and the drake grows wings and gains a flying speed of 40ft.
• The drake’s bite attack deals an extra 1d6 damage of the type chosen for its Draconic Essence.

Drake's Ferocity

11th-level Drakewarden Feature

Your drake has reached maturity. Your drake gains the following benefits:

• The drake grows to Large size
• The drake's bite attack deals an extra 1d6 of the damage type associated with it's Draconic Essence (for a total of 2d6 extra damage)
• Your drake's fly and swim speeds increase to 60ft
• As long as your Drakewarden Token is in your possession, when either you or the drake takes damage while you’re within 30 feet of each other, you can use your reaction to give yourself or the drake resistance to that instance of damage.

Drake’s Breath

11th-level Drakewarden feature

As long as you hold your Drakewarden Token, as an action, you can exhale a 30-foot cone of damaging breath or cause your drake to exhale it. Choose acid, cold, fire, lightning, or poison damage. Each creature in the cone must make a Dexterity saving throw against your spell save DC, taking 6d6 damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

This damage increases to 8d6 when you reach 15th level in this class.

Once you use this feature, you can’t do so again until you finish a long rest, unless you expend a spell slot of 3rd level or higher to use it again.

Drake's Fury

15th-level Drakewarden feature

You have learned to imbue your drake with the power of dragons. As long as you hold your Drakewarden Token, as an action, you can grant your drake the following benefits for 1 hour:

• The drake grows to Huge size.
• The drake gains temporary HP equal to 3x your ranger level, this temporary HP disappears at the end of the hour.
• The drake’s bite attack deals an extra 1d6 damage of the type chosen for its Draconic Essence (for a total of 3d6 extra damage).
• The drake can make one additional bite attack as part of the same action.
• The size of Drake's Breath increases to 60ft.
• Your drake's fly and swim speeds increase to 90ft.

Once you use this feature you can't use it again until you finish a long rest, unless you expend a spell slot of 5th level or higher to use it again.