D&D Beyond: Critical Role’s Blood Hunter Class Updated – New Details
Matt Mercer’s Blood Hunter class got a big update this past week. Here’s a look at what’s new for the bloody adventurer.
The Blood Hunter is one of Critical Role’s more infamous classes. These sanguinary stalkers use the power of “hemocraft” aka blood magic to inflict massive damage. In most cases to both themselves and their enemies.
It was, in fact, blood magic that made for a dramatic turn in Campaign 2 of Critical Role. And the old saying is true, give a D&D player a way to be edgy and they’ll take it. Since its release on D&D Beyond, the Blood Hunter has been a fairly popular option.
Now, with new errata and integrated features, the class is poised to be more popular than ever. The Blood Hunter, updated, feels like a more potent, flexible version than the previous iteration. Let’s take a look.
Blood Hunter Updated Rules/Errata
Updates to the Blood Hunter class as per our friends at Critical Role:
- intro text for the class
- Order of the Ghostslayer’s Rite of the Dawn title and text
- Order of the Ghostslayer’s Brand of Sundering and Rite Revival texts
- Brand of Castigation text
- Order of the Lycan’s “Onus of Lycanthropy” sidebar text has been updated, as well as the title to “Burden of Lycanthropy”
- Order of the Lycan’s Hybrid Transformation text
- Grim Psychometry text
- Order of the Mutant’s Mutagencraft feature text, as well as adding a small table to display its progression
- Order of the Mutant’s Brand of Axiom text
- Blood Curses text
- Order of the Mutant’s Exalted Mutation and Mutagens texts
- adding the Fathomless, the Genie, and the Undead to the Order of the Profane Soul’s Otherworldly Patrons text
- Order of the Profane Soul’s Rite Focus text
- Order of the Profane Soul’s Revealed & Unsealed Arcana texts
There’s a lot of little details here. But the most important change is that you decide between Intelligence or Wisdom as your primary ability score/spellcasting ability score. Which opens up a ton of multiclassing options for players eager to walk on the darker side of things.
Check out the Updated Blood Hunter on D&D Beyond
Happy Adventuring!
