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Hayden

Elf · Ranger (Hunter) · Level 15 · Criminal

Hayden

Hayden is observant, dryly humorous, and protective without being openly sentimental.
AC15
HP124/124
Init
STR
DEX
CON
INT
WIS
CHA
ConditionsNone

Sheet

AC 15 · HP 124 · 30 ft.
AlignmentChaotic GoodGenderMaleAgeApproximately 186 years old
STR
DEX
CON
INT
WIS
CHA

Saving throws

STRDEXCONINTWISCHA

Skills

  • Animal HandlingWIS
  • AthleticsSTR
  • InsightWIS
  • InvestigationINT
  • NatureINT
  • PerceptionWIS
  • Sleight of HandDEX
  • StealthDEX
  • SurvivalWIS

Armor

Light armor,
Medium armor,
Shields

Weapons

Simple weapons,
Martial weapons

Tools

Thieves' tools,
Gaming set

Languages

Common,
Elvish,
Thieves' Cant

Features

28 features

Action

  • Extra AttackLevel 5

    You can attack twice instead of once whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

Bonus action

  • TirelessLevel 10

    As a Bonus Action, you can give yourself temporary Hit Points equal to 1d8 plus your Wisdom modifier. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier per Long Rest.

  • Relentless HunterLevel 13

    You can expend a use of Favored Enemy without using a Bonus Action when you cast Hunter's Mark. In addition, you can maintain concentration on Hunter's Mark for up to 24 hours.

  • Nature's VeilLevel 14

    As a Bonus Action, you can give yourself the Invisible condition until the end of your next turn. The effect ends early immediately after you make an attack roll, deal damage, or force a creature to make a saving throw. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier per Long Rest.

Reaction

  • Superior Hunter's DefenseLevel 15

    When When Hayden takes damage.

    Use a Reaction when damaged to gain Resistance to that damage type until the end of the current turn.

Always on

  • Colossus Slayer

    When Once per turn when you hit a wounded creature with a weapon attack.

    When you hit a creature with a weapon and it is missing any Hit Points, deal an extra 1d8 damage once per turn.

  • Superior Hunter's PreyLevel 11

    When Once per turn when dealing damage to a creature marked by Hunter's Mark.

    When you deal Hunter's Mark damage to a marked creature, you can deal the spell's extra damage to another creature within 30 feet of the first.

  • SpellcastingLevel 1

    You gain a spellbook of primal magic. Wisdom is your spellcasting ability, and you can prepare 12 Ranger spells after a Long Rest. Hunter's Mark is always prepared for you, and you can cast it without expending a spell slot a number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier per Long Rest.

  • Favored EnemyLevel 1

    Hunter's Mark is always prepared. You can cast it without a spell slot twice per Long Rest, and you can cast it with spell slots as normal. The spell's duration does not require Concentration when cast through this feature, but it still requires Concentration when cast using a spell slot.

  • Weapon MasteryLevel 1

    You gain mastery with Longbow, Shortsword, and Scimitar. Their mastery properties are available when you wield them.

  • Fighting StyleLevel 2

    Choose Archery as your Fighting Style. You gain a +2 bonus to attack rolls made with ranged weapons.

  • Deft ExplorerLevel 2

    You gain expertise in Stealth. Your proficiency bonus is doubled for ability checks using Stealth.

  • Ranger SubclassLevel 3

    You choose Hunter as your Ranger subclass.

  • Hunter's LoreLevel 3

    You can call on natural forces to reveal the immunities, resistances, and vulnerabilities of a creature marked by your Hunter's Mark.

  • Hunter's PreyLevel 3

    You have chosen Colossus Slayer. Once per turn when you hit a creature with a weapon attack and it is missing any Hit Points, the attack deals an extra 1d8 damage.

  • Ability Score ImprovementLevel 4

    You gain an Ability Score Improvement. Hayden retains his specified final ability scores and takes the Sharpshooter feat as his level 4 choice.

  • RovingLevel 6

    You gain a Climb Speed and Swim Speed equal to your Speed.

  • Defensive TacticsLevel 7

    You have chosen Multiattack Defense. When a creature hits you with an attack roll, that creature has Disadvantage on all other attack rolls against you this turn.

  • Ability Score ImprovementLevel 8

    You gain an Ability Score Improvement. Hayden retains his specified final ability scores and takes the Defensive Duelist feat as his level 8 choice.

  • ExpertiseLevel 9

    You gain expertise in Perception. Your proficiency bonus is doubled for ability checks using Perception.

  • Ability Score ImprovementLevel 12

    You gain an Ability Score Improvement. Hayden retains his specified final ability scores and takes the Mage Slayer feat as his level 12 choice.

  • Creature TypeElfHumanoid.
  • DarkvisionElfYou can see in dim light within 60 feet as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light, though darkness appears in shades of gray.
  • Elven LineageElfHayden is a Wood Elf. He knows the Druidcraft cantrip, can cast Longstrider once per Long Rest without a spell slot, and can cast Pass without Trace once per Long Rest without a spell slot. Wisdom is his spellcasting ability for these spells.
  • Fey AncestryElfYou have Advantage on saving throws to avoid or end the Charmed condition.
  • Keen SensesElfYou have proficiency in Insight.
  • TranceElfYou do not need to sleep and can finish a Long Rest in 4 hours through conscious meditation. Magic cannot put you to sleep.
  • Criminal ContactCriminal

    You have contacts among criminals and know how to communicate with them through signs, coded phrases, and discreet intermediaries. You can obtain information from the criminal underworld, though such contacts may expect favors in return.

Spells

15 spells

Spellcasting. Hayden casts with Wisdom (spell save DC 15, to hit with spell attacks).

Cantrips (at will):

1st level (4 slots): , , , , , ,

2nd level (3 slots): , ,

3rd level (3 slots): ,

4th level (2 slots):

5th level:

Gear

12 items

Weapons

  • Longbow
    A finely balanced martial ranged weapon, carefully maintained and wrapped against rain.
  • Scimitar
    A light, curved blade used for close defense and quiet work.
  • Shortsword
    A short blade favored for concealment and utility.

Armor

  • Studded Leather Armor
    Light armor of dark, flexible leather reinforced with small metal studs.

Tools

  • Crowbar
    A compact iron bar useful for prying doors, crates, and shutters.
  • Thieves' Tools
    A set of fine tools for opening locks and disabling traps.

Gear

  • 20×
    Arrows
    A quiver containing ammunition for the longbow.
  • Druidic Focus
    A sprig of mistletoe used as a druidic focus for Ranger spells.
  • Explorer's Pack
    A pack containing bedroll, rations, rope, cookware, torches, and other wilderness supplies.
  • Gaming Set
    A small gaming set used to pass time and build rapport with criminals and informants.
  • 2×
    Pouches
    Small leather containers for coins, components, and stolen evidence.

Purse

  • 16×
    Gold Pieces
    Starting money retained from his criminal work.

Appearance

Hayden is a lean, long-limbed male elf with ash-brown hair worn in a short, uneven braid behind one ear. He dresses in dark green studded leather beneath a weather-faded traveling coat, with a recurved longbow kept within easy reach. Within a minute of meeting him, most people notice that his eyes rarely settle on the speaker. They travel instead to windows, exits, rooftops, hands, and unattended valuables, as though every room is a puzzle he is solving. He takes up very little space when standing, often leaning against a wall or folding himself into a corner, but he becomes startlingly still when danger appears.

Mannerisms

Hayden checks every door and window when entering a room, taps twice against his bow before a difficult shot, and answers direct questions with a brief glance toward the nearest exit before speaking. When thinking, he silently counts objects in his surroundings.

Personality

Hayden is observant, dryly humorous, and protective without being openly sentimental. He prefers practical kindness to speeches, leaves food where hungry people will find it, and treats criminals with more patience than nobles. He is comfortable in silence and distrusts anyone who speaks too confidently about order, destiny, or the law.

Ideals

Freedom. No law deserves obedience merely because it is written down. People should be judged by whom they protect, not by which institutions approve of them.

Bonds

He carries a small iron key taken from the magistrate whose crimes first drove him into exile. It opens a locked archive containing evidence that could clear the names of his former crew, one of whom is still imprisoned under a false identity.

Flaws

He assumes every favor has a hidden price and every authority is one bad day away from becoming a tyrant. Hayden will risk an entire mission to protect someone who reminds him of his former crew, even when doing so is reckless.

Quirks

He names particularly difficult locks after the people who designed them.
He leaves a coin beneath the cup of any honest innkeeper who gives him useful information.
He can identify most city districts by their smells before he sees the streets.
He dislikes perfectly clean rooms because they usually mean someone has searched them recently.

Background

Hayden grew up in a wood elf settlement built along an old trade road, where his people quietly watched caravans, smugglers, soldiers, and fugitives pass beneath the trees. He learned early that the law and justice were not the same thing. When a corrupt magistrate began seizing elven land under invented charges, Hayden joined a small burglary ring that stole the magistrate's ledgers and returned confiscated goods to the families who had lost them. The operation succeeded, but the ring was betrayed from within, forcing Hayden into the wilderness with a price on his head. Years spent moving between forest trails, city rooftops, and hidden safehouses turned him into a skilled ranger and an unwilling guardian of people who had nowhere else to turn. He still maintains a network of thieves, informants, ferrymen, and innkeepers, though he now uses those connections to expose tyrants, disrupt monster cults, and protect the vulnerable. Hayden considers every hunt a debt repaid to the people his first crew could not save. He is suspicious of institutions, fond of outcasts, and quietly determined to prove that a criminal past does not dictate a person's future.

“He learned early that the law and justice were not the same thing.”
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Criminal

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Elf

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