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Monster Epigones are seekers of power that learn to exploit the abilities, natural and magical, of their favored enemies. They are those select few that have a drive to understand the innerworkings of other humanoids, beast-kind, and monstrous fiends. These free-minded wanderers seek out secrets of the world through understanding the influence of natural and arcane magic on the soul and the physical body; learning secrets of a creature’s defenses by examining the remains, brains and skulls through the study of phrenology. These Rangers study the survival patterns of their favored enemies and learn to be more like them, bending the laws of nature in their favor to harness the mighty Chimera’s Fire Breath in the dungeons of a crazed wizard, or learn the Mimicry of the Green Hag that resides deep in the wilds to aid them on their journey.

Copycat

Upon choosing the archetype at 3rd level, your deep understanding of your favored enemy’s type allows you to learn and copy a specific special ability produced by the creature. When a favored enemy you have successfully identified uses its special abilities in your line of sight during an encounter, you may attempt a Learning check, which is a Wisdom based check of a DC equal to 8 + the enemy’s proficiency bonus, as a reaction anytime during a round as long as you have not used up your reaction for that round. On a success, you may add the favored enemy’s spell or non-weapon ability to your Copycat skill list, which is equal to the number of spells know for your Ranger level.



































































To use or cast a Copycat skill expends

a point from your Copycat skill list. For

example, a 4th level Ranger may attempt to

learn up to 3 different Copycat skills and may

use those skills 3/day as an action. If learning new Copycat

skill would cause you to exceed this maximum, you may choose a Copycat ability you know and replace it with the new one. You may not learn an ability from a monster whose Challenge Rating exceeds your level in the Ranger class. You cannot learn lair or legendary abilities, or abilities that are reliant on monstrous natural weapons you do not possess. For the purpose of learning abilities that rely on creature size, such as the swallow ability, you must be a size category larger than medium and can only affect targets that are smaller than your current size.

You may use this ability a number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier per day, which recharge after a long rest.

Favored Affinity

Starting at 3rd level, your proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability check you make to identify monsters and their special powers or vulnerabilities. If you lack proficiency in the required skill, you are treated as having it only for the purposes of these monster knowledge checks. (Proficiency bonus would not be doubled in this case.)