Monster Hunter
Grim Hollow
Monster Hunter
hit dice:
1d10 per monster hunter level
hit points at 1st level:
10 + your Constitution modifier
hit points at higher levels:
1d10 (or 6) + your constitution modifier per monster hunter level after 1st.
armor proficiencies:
Light armor, medium armor, shields
weapon proficiencies:
Simple weapons, martial weapons
tools:
None
saving throws:
Strength, Dexterity
skills:
Choose two skills from Athletics, History, Investigation, Medicine, Nature, Perception, Religion, and Survival
starting equipment:
Starting Equipment: Choose A or B:
Starting Equipment: Choose A or B:
- (A) Scale mail, Scimitar, Longbow, Shield, light crossbow, 20 bolts, Explorer’s Pack, and 12 SP
- (B) 120 SP
spellcasting:
class features:
Level 1: Fighting Style
You gain a Fighting Style feat of your choice (see chapter 5).Level 1: Monster Grimoire
Each monster hunter carries with them a grimoire of lore and research about the creatures they hunt. Choose two types of monsters that you are specialized in hunting from the following list: aberrations, beasts, constructs, dragons, elementals, fey, fiends, giants, monstrosities, oozes, plants, undead, or humanoids (shape changers). You add your proficiency bonus to any Intelligence and Wisdom checks you make that relate to the monsters in your grimoire. For example, an Intelligence (History) check to recall lore about a creature you’re investigating, or a Wisdom (Medicine) check to identify claw marks left on a corpse. If you are already proficient in a skill when asked to make an ability check relating to the monsters in your grimoire, you are treated as having expertise for the purposes of that ability check and double your proficiency bonus instead. When you gain this feature, you also learn one language of your choice that is spoken by one of the monster types in your grimoire. Other class features you gain also refer to the monsters in your grimoire.A monster hunter’s grimoire is an object that is entirely unique to them. It may be a leather tome recovered from a dusty library with notes made in the margins, a frayed journal inherited from a previous hunter, or a precious stone with a communing spirit trapped within. If a monster hunter ever loses their grimoire, they have usually retained enough of the knowledge to not suffer any immediate disadvantages. However, they cannot further their research without one and therefore cannot take another monster hunter level at level up until a lost grimoire has been replaced. A grimoire can be recreated by spending 8 hours and 50 gp worth of materials such as pages, inks, or components to cast a ritual.
Level 2: Hunter’s Instincts
You gain the ability to analyze a creature and discern specific information about it. As a bonus action, choose one creature you can see within 60 feet of you, and make an Intelligence (Investigation) check where the DC equals 5 + the creature’s CR. The check is automatically successful against creatures with a CR less than 1. If you are successful, you learn one of the following pieces of information.- The creature’s type.
- The creature’s armor class.
- Any damage resistances or immunities the creature has.
- Any damage vulnerabilities the creature has.
Level 3: Hunting Guild
You choose a hunting guild that best reflects the techniques you employ in tracking and slaying monsters. The guild you choose grants you features at 3rd level and again at 7th, 10th, 15th and 18th level.Level 4: Ability Score Improvement
You gain the Ability Score Improvement feat (see chapter 5) or another feat of your choice for which you qualify. You gain this feature again at Monster Hunter levels 8, 12, and 16.Level 5: Extra Attack
You can attack twice instead of once whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.Level 5: Grave Strike
When you reach 5th level, such is your learning in the weaknesses of monsters that you know patience and precision can often deal more damage than rapid strikes. You can use an action on your turn to perform a grave strike, which is a single weapon attack. When doing so your Intelligence modifier is added to the attack roll and if the attack hits the weapon deals additional damage equal to 1d8 times your Intelligence modifier (minimum of 1d8). A grave strike can also be performed as a reaction such as a readied action or an opportunity attack. You do not lose a use of this ability if the readied action is not performed. You may use this ability a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of one) and regain all expended uses when you finish a short or long rest.Level 6: Grimoire Improvement
Once you reach 6th level, you have gathered enough information among the monsters you’ve slain to add another section to your Monster Grimoire. You may select a new type of monster that you are specialized in hunting from the following list: aberrations, beasts, constructs, dragons, elementals, fey, fiends, giants, monstrosities, oozes, plants, undead, or humanoids (shape changers). You may not choose a monster type you have chosen before. All the benefits you gain from your monster grimoire now also apply to this new creature type. Additionally, whenever you are making a weapon attack against a creature written about in your monster grimoire, you score a critical hit on a roll of 19 or 20.Level 9: Recognized Professional
By 9th level, stories of your expertise in hunting monsters have spread and you have become a recognized professional in your field. You have advantage on Charisma checks against non-hostile creatures when plying your trade, such as when negotiating payment for a quest, asking for information about a monster, or selling monster salvage.Level 11: Rapid Grave Strike
Once you reach 11th level, you are an expert at striking at the weaknesses of your prey. All your weapon attacks now deal an extra 1d8 of damage. You may also now choose to use Grave Strike as part of any Attack action instead of taking an entire action on its own.Level 13: Grimoire Improvement
By reaching 13th level, you have gathered enough information among the monsters you’ve slain to add another section to your Monster Grimoire. You may select a new type of monster that you are specialized in hunting from the following list: aberrations, beasts, constructs, dragons, elementals, fey, fiends, giants, monstrosities, oozes, plants, undead, or humanoids (shape changers). You may not choose a monster type you have chosen before. All the benefits you gain from your monster grimoire now also apply to this new creature type.Level 13: Knowledgeable Defence
You have studied the ways in which your foes attack and trained your body and mind to resist them. You are considered proficient with any saving throw made against a creature written about in your Monster Grimoire. If you are already proficient when asked to make the saving throw, you may add your proficiency bonus a second time.Level 14: Hunter’s Instincts Improvement
You have honed your hunter’s instincts to the point of only needing clues a creature has left behind to learn information about them. These clues could include tracks or claw marks, standing inside the monster’s lair, the remains of one of their victims, or even an accurate description given by a witness. As an action you can make an Intelligence (Investigation) check while considering one of these clues. The DC equals 10 + the CR of the creature who left the clue, the check automatically successful against creatures with a CR less than 1. If you are successful, you learn one of the following pieces of information.- The creature’s type.
- The creature’s armor class.
- Any damage resistances or immunities the creature has.
- Any damage vulnerabilities the creature has.
Level 17: Grimoire Improvement
You have gathered enough information among the monsters you’ve slain to add a final section to your Monster Grimoire. You may select a new type of monster that you are specialized in hunting from the following list: aberrations, beasts, constructs, dragons, elementals, fey, fiends, giants, monstrosities, oozes, plants, undead, or humanoids (shape changers). You may not choose a monster type you have chosen before. All the benefits you gain from your monster grimoire now also apply to this new creature type.Level 19: Epic Boon
You gain an Epic Boon feat (see chapter 5) or another feat of your choice for which you qualify. Boon of Dimensional Travel is recommended.Level 20: Grave Execution
If a creature from a type written about in your Monster Grimoire has 50 hit points or less remaining when you hit it with a Grave Strike, you can force the target to make a Constitution saving throw. On a failure the creature is immediately reduced to 0 hit points, while on a success the Grave Strike deals its damage as normal. Calculate the save DC as follows: DC = 8 + Proficiency Bonus + your Strength or Dexterity modifier (your choice)subclass options:
Carver Guild
Source: Grim Hollow
Since the beginning of time, monsters were fought by those who were brave enough to get close to danger and glare into its ferocious eyes. The folk that survived were those smart enough to arm themselves properly and know precisely where to strike for the quickest kill.
Carvers are the monster hunters that are typically called upon when immediate danger threatens a settlement and action is in short supply. Carvers stride unflinchingly toward death, armed with years of training and knowledge that is both researched and passed down from those before them.
Level 3: Bonus Proficiency
You gain proficiency with heavy armorLevel 3: Close Quarters
Your resolve allows you to keep the pressure on your target while mitigating the risk to yourself. Whenever you hit a creature with a melee weapon attack you can mark them until the start of your next turn. While creatures that are marked are adjacent to you, they have disadvantage on attack rolls against you.Level 3: True Grit
You are immune to being frightened by creature types written about in your grimoire.Level 7: Improved Salvage
You have learned every technique integral to efficiently carving the salvage from monster remains. You have advantage on ability checks made to harvest salvage, and whenever possible you collect twice as much.Level 10: Grave Riposte
You have learned to strike back and your foes who provide you an opening. If a creature you have marked within melee range misses you with an attack or attacks a creature other than you, you may use your reaction to immediately make a melee weapon attack or Grave Strike against them.Level 15: Terror of Terrors
Your reputation has become such that monsters who prey on the fearful have come to fear you. When you mark a creature using a Grave Strike attack, you can force the target to succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or become frightened of you until the end of your next turn. The saving throw DC is calculated as follows: DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + Strength or Dexterity modifier (your choice)Level 18: Tireless Hunter
If you have no uses of Grave Strike remaining when you roll initiative, you gain one use of Grave Strike.Devourer Guild
Source: Grim Hollow
Folk in Arceiron do not always speak highly of monster hunters, and many consider them to be just as depraved and inhuman as the evils they are sent to vanquish. Many of the appalling tales told about monster hunters can be attributed to the Devourer Guild, accused of being monstrous cannibals themselves.
The truth is barely any better. Devourer’s have spent their days consuming the flesh and vitae of the monsters they have slain, and over time their metabolism has changed to tolerate this disgusting practice. Devourers adopt mutations shortly after consuming the substance their prey is made from.
Level 3: Transmutating Metabolism
You gain the ability to consume portions from monster remains which cause your body to adopt powerful and frightening new mutations. Salvaging Portions. A single portion can be salvaged from the physical remains of any creature. Unless it is consumed a portion lasts for 24 hours, before it either rots or its innate magic dissipates, and it no longer has any effect. Consuming Portions. Whenever you spend a bonus action to consume a portion, you magically gain a benefit depending on the creature’s type. You can consume a number of portions up to 1 + your Constitution modifier (minimum of 1). Each portion you consume after that causes you to gain a level of exhaustion. When you finish a long rest, you regain the ability to safely consume portions. You can benefit from multiple portions at the same time but consuming more than one portion from the same monster type provides no additional effects. If a portion effect enables you to cast a spell, Intelligence becomes your spellcasting ability.Portion Effects
Show Portion Effects- Aberrations. For the next hour you can speak telepathically to any creature you are aware of within 60 feet of you. Additionally, during that time you have resistance to psychic damage.
- Beasts. You regain hit points equal to 2d8 + your monster hunter level.
- Celestials. For the next hour you automatically know whenever you are being lied to. Additionally, once during that same period you can cast the branding smite spell innately.
- Constructs. For the next ten minutes, you have resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage from non-magical attacks not made with adamantine weapons.
- Dragons. For the next ten minutes, you grow leathery wings from your back which give you a flying speed of 50 feet.
- Elementals. Choose one of the following damage types: acid, cold, fire, lightning, thunder. For the next minute whenever you take damage of that type, instead of losing hit points you instead gain hit points equal to the amount of damage that would be taken.
- Fey. Once within the next ten minutes you can innately cast the invisibility spell requiring no material components.
- Fiends. Once within the next ten minutes you can innately cast the charm person spell or the suggestion spell requiring no material components. This effect ends once you have cast either of these spells.
- Giants. For the next minute you gain advantage on all Strength based ability checks and saving throws. You also add your Strength score to the damage twice for any Strength based weapon attacks you make.
- Humanoids (Shape Changer). For the next hour you can magically polymorph your physical appearance. This functions similarly to the disguise self spell but with two key differences. Firstly, you cannot change the appearance of your clothing, weapons, or equipment. However, your disguise is physical in nature and stands up to physical inspection.
- Monstrosities. For the next hour you gain natural weapons such as claws and fangs. Whenever you make an unarmed strike, you deal 1d6 slashing damage instead of the normal amount. You can also make an unarmed strike as a bonus action on each of your turns.
- Oozes. For the next hour you can move through any space wide enough for a creature one size smaller than you without squeezing. Additionally, during that same period you can choose to deal acid damage with any weapon attack you make as your saliva and blood become corrosive to others.
- Plants. For the next ten minutes you can innately cast the spike growth spell requiring no material components.
- Undead. For the next minute whenever you inflict damage to a creature with a weapon attack, you gain temporary hit points equal to half the damage dealt.
Level 7: Inherent Mutation
Your body begins to grow new permanent mutations because of your continued consumption of monsters. Choose two of the following mutations that become permanent for you.- Metabolized Constitution. You have advantage on saving throws against poison, and you have resistance against poison damage. If you already have or gain a similar ability due to another magic item, class, or racial trait (such as Dwarvern Resilience) you instead become immune to poison damage and immune to the poisoned condition.
- Obsessive Consumption. You can now consume a number of portions up to 2 + your Constitution modifier (minimum of 2) before taking any levels of exhaustion.
- Permanent Scales. When you are not wearing armor, your AC equals 13 + your Dexterity modifier.
- Preternatural Reflexes. You can take the Dash or Disengage action as a bonus action on your turn. Rapid Recovery. You can use your action to spend a single Hit Dice, recovering hit points equal to the result + your Constitution modifier.
- Terrifying Appearance. Your appearance becomes frightening to others to behold. You gain proficiency in the Intimidation skill. If you are already proficient in this skill you instead gain expertise, doubling your proficiency bonus whenever you make a Charisma (Intimidation) check.
- Wall Crawler. You have a climbing speed equal to your movement speed, and can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without needing to make an ability check.
- Wolfen Senses. You have advantage on Intelligence (Investigation) checks and Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on hearing or smell.
Level 10: Alchemical Decoctions
You gain proficiency with Alchemist’s supplies. You can spend 1 hour and 20 gold pieces worth of alchemical ingredients (such as special herbs or monster salvage) to use your Alchemist’s supplies to convert a single portion into a decoction. A decoction is a magic potion that functions exactly like a portion but has no limit on how long it lasts. Creatures other than you can consume 1 decoction, gaining a level of exhaustion for each additional decoction they consume after that. After finishing a long rest, a creature regains the ability to safely consume a single decoction. If a decoction enables a creature other than you to cast a spell, they may use their own spellcasting ability or use Constitution if they do not already have the ability to cast a spell.Level 15: Monstrous Gluttony
You have become so ravenous for the power monsters give you that you are willing to feast on their still living flesh. You may spend one use of Grave Strike to instead make a special melee weapon attack using either Strength or Dexterity. The attack deals 1d6 piercing damage plus 1d8 force damage times your Intelligence modifier (minimum 1d8). If this attack is successful, after dealing damage you instantly count as having consumed a portion of the same creature type as the target of the attack.Level 18: Acquired Taste
Your hunger for monster portions has increased as has your capacity to safely devour them. You can now consume 1 additional portion or decoction before gaining a level of exhaustion between long rests.Trapper Guild
Source: Grim Hollow
Legends say that the founding members of the Trapper Guild were regular game hunters who had grown bored of the common elk and dreamed of taking down bigger game. Trappers take pride in their kills and the ingenuity exhibited when a trap works perfectly.
The legacy of the Trapper Guild is a consistent testament to the benefits of lying in wait. The element of surprise is paramount to the Trapper, whose kit can flourish before the hunter and monster even meet. Preparation is key, and the resourceful Trapper has devices to overcome even the strongest foes.
Level 3: Bonus Proficiency
You gain proficiency in the Stealth skill.Level 3: Trapper’s Tools
You gain proficiency with Tinker’s tools and can use these to create gadgets and mechanisms that help you during the hunt. Whenever you finish a long rest, you can use your Tinker’s tools to craft two of the following trapper’s tools described below. You can also spend 1 hour and 20 gold pieces worth of additional resources (such as equipment or monster salvage) to use your Tinker’s tools to craft a single trapper tool. The time spent must be uninterrupted and can be during a short rest. Some trapper’s tools allow your target to make an ability check or saving throw to resist the tool’s effects. The saving throw DC is calculated as follows: trapper’s tool Save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Intelligence Modifier. Show Trapper ToolsElemental Ammo
The head of an arrow or bolt is tipped with poison, loaded with an acid vial, or dipped in flammable oil. You create a single piece of ammunition that can be fired from either a bow or crossbow as part of an attack action. If that piece of ammunition hits, it inflicts three times the weapon’s normal damage dice. The damage type can be either acid, fire, lightning, poison, or thunder, chosen when the ammunition is crafted. A piece of elemental ammo breaks after use and cannot be recovered.Push Plate
A chest guard, filled with compressed air or loaded with springs. It can be worn over clothing and armor and takes the same time to don and doff as light armor. If the wearer is hit by a melee attack, it can use its reaction to activate the push plate. If the wearer is larger than the creature who attacked it, the creature will be pushed back up to 20 feet. If the creature is the same size or larger than the wearer, the wearer will be pushed back up to 20 feet, instead. The push plate is destroyed after a single use.Scorpion Anchor
This weapon is intended to keep flying foes anchored to the ground or stop monsters from fleeing. The scorpion anchor can be fired from either a bow or crossbow as part of an attack action. A creature hit by the attack becomes grappled, ending the effect if it uses an action on its turn to succeed on a Dexterity (Acrobatics) or Strength (Athletics) check. A scorpion anchor is destroyed after use and cannot be recovered.Silver Bomb
Silver bombs are used when hunting creatures that are resilient to mortal weapons. As a bonus action on your turn, you can throw the silver bomb at a point that you can see within 60 feet, creating a 20-foot-radius sphere centred on that point. The sphere spreads around corners, and its area is lightly obscured. It lasts for 1 minute or until a wind of moderate or greater speed (at least 10 miles per hour) disperses it. While inside the sphere, any aberration, elemental, fey, fiend, humanoid, monstrosity or undead loses any resistances or immunities that it has to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage. A silver bomb is destroyed after a single use.Terrain Cloak
A cloak composed of or disguised with local materials, allowing the wearer to conceal themselves within the environment. Terrain cloaks can be worn over light and medium armor and are donned and doffed with the speed of light armor. The wearer of a terrain cloak is always lightly obscured. The wearer also receives advantage on stealth checks that rely on sight and can attempt to hide even if only lightly obscured by their terrain cloak. Terrain cloaks tend not to last as the dust wears off and the dead branches break or whither. Terrain cloaks fall apart after 24 hours.Weretrap
A strong staggering trap that is triggered when its fragile exterior is broken. You can use an action to set the trap on the ground in a space adjacent to you. Weretraps placed on the ground are invisible to other creatures unless they succeed a Wisdom (Perception) check. A creature that steps on the weretrap must succeed a Dexterity saving throw or take 3d10 bludgeoning damage and be knocked prone. The weretrap can also be used as a ranged weapon with the finesse and thrown property. It has a short range of 20 feet and a long range of 60 feet. On a successful hit, the weretrap deals 3d10 bludgeoning damage and the target is knocked prone. The weretrap is destroyed after it is triggered or thrown, regardless of whether it was successful or not.Level 3: Predatory Awareness
You can’t be surprised by creature types written about in your grimoire while you are conscious.Level 7: Improved Crafting
You better understand the nature of salvage gathered from monsters and how to craft those materials more efficiently. Whenever you want to craft an item from salvage, you may do so with half the amount of salvage necessary and in half the time. If it is not possible to craft the item with half the amount of salvage (such as creating a mace of disruption from the skull of a memori lich), you may half one other required cost instead.Level 10: Ambushers Advantage
You have become a ferocious ambusher. You have a bonus to your initiative rolls equal to your Intelligence modifier. If you use Grave Strike against a creature that has not acted in combat yet, you can use your bonus action to make a single weapon attack as well.Level 15: Monster Hide Armor
You have learned to modify a set of light or medium armor by crafting dragon scales, werewolf hide, troll leather, or similar monster salvage onto the armor. The armor takes on the appearance of your choice, reflecting the salvage it is made from. It is assumed you have been working on this armor during your down time, however a final 4 hours of uninterrupted work with your Tinker’s tools and a suit of light or medium armor is required to complete it. Your Monster Hide Armor has the same properties as the light or medium armor it is made from plus two additional features you choose from the following list.- Damage Resistance. The monster hide used to craft your armor transfers its resistances. Choose 3 damage types when you craft the armor. You have resistance to these damage types while wearing your armor.
- Elemental Charge. Your armor may be embedded with a construct’s gemstone or infused with the power of an elemental. When you craft your armor, you imbue it with one of the following damage types: acid, cold, fire, lightning, poison, or thunder. Whenever you make a weapon attack, you may choose for the damage to be the weapon’s normal damage type or your armor’s imbued damage type.
- Hardened Defense. Hardened scales or magical pelt make your armor difficult to pierce. You have a +2 bonus to AC while wearing this armor.
- Regeneration. Possibly made from troll hide or infused with vampire blood, while wearing your armor you can use a bonus action to regain hit points equal to 1 hit dice plus your Constitution modifier. You may do this 6 times, regaining the ability to do so after completing a short or long rest. Using this ability does not spend a hit dice.
- Stealthy. Your armor is draped with a shadowy cloak or made from hide as light as a feather. Your armor does not impose disadvantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks even if it would normally. While wearing your armor you have advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks made to hide, and Wisdom (Perception) checks made to perceive you have disadvantage.
- Phase Leap. You may have powdered your armor with fey dust or sewn it with the pelt of a phase shifting monstrosity. You can use a bonus action on your turn to teleport up to 60 feet to an unoccupied space you can see. You may do this up to 3 times, regaining the ability to do so after a short or long rest.
Level 18: Rapid Tinkerer
You have become capable of crafting trapper tools at a much faster rate. When you finish a long rest, you can now craft three trapper’s tools instead of two.| Level | Proficiency Bonus | Features | Grimoire Specilizations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | +2 | Fighting Style, Monster Grimoire | 2 |
| 2nd | +2 | Hunter’s Instincts | 2 |
| 3rd | +2 | Hunting Guild | 2 |
| 4th | +2 | Ability Score Improvement | 2 |
| 5th | +3 | Extra Attack, Grave Strike | 2 |
| 6th | +3 | Grimoire Improvement | 3 |
| 7th | +3 | Hunting Guild Feature | 3 |
| 8th | +3 | Ability Score Improvement | 3 |
| 9th | +4 | Recognized Professional | 3 |
| 10th | +4 | Hunting Guild Feature | 3 |
| 11th | +4 | Rapid Grave Strike | 3 |
| 12th | +4 | Ability Score Improvement | 3 |
| 13th | +5 | Grimoire Improvement, Knowledgeable Defence | 4 |
| 14th | +5 | Hunter’s Instincts Improvement | 4 |
| 15th | +5 | Hunting Guild Feature | 4 |
| 16th | +5 | Ability Score Improvement | 4 |
| 17th | +6 | Grimoire Improvement | 5 |
| 18th | +6 | Hunting Guild Feature | 5 |
| 19th | +6 | Epic Boon | 5 |
| 20th | +6 | Grave Execution | 5 |
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by 3 Armored Kittens · Prodromos v.1.1 - World Anvil 0.9.15.045 © 2017-2025 [en] | Anvil Time: 06:02, Dec 12 2025