Rogue

Sling Webs and Crawl Walls

A life-changing event, such as being cursed by a drider or being bitten by a dangerously transmuted arachnid, has imbued you with the abilities of a spider. This transformation might have left you physically unchanged, or you may have developed a half-dozen eyes, lanky and hairy limbs, or a set of inhuman mandibles. Whatever the side effects, you can now produce deadly poison and ropes of silken web from your palms, and even scale walls with your fingertips.

You've become accustomed to moving like a spider, granting you the following benefits.

When you make a saving throw and take damage, you can take a Reaction to use your Uncanny Dodge, halving the damage you take (round down).

You gain the following Cunning Strike option.

Enhance Stealth with Arcane Spells

Some Rogues enhance their fine-honed skills of stealth and agility with spells, learning magical tricks to aid them in their trade. Some Arcane Tricksters use their talents as pickpockets and burglars, while others are pranksters.

If you have the Invisible condition when you cast a spell on a creature, it has Disadvantage on any saving throw it makes against the spell on the same turn.

You gain the ability to distract targets with your Mage Hand. When you use the Trip option of your Cunning Strike on a creature, you can also use that option on another creature within 5 feet of the spectral hand.

You gain the ability to magically steal the knowledge of how to cast a spell from another spellcaster.

Immediately after a creature casts a spell that targets you or includes you in its area of effect, you can take a Reaction to force the creature to make an Intelligence saving throw. The DC equals your spell save DC. On a failed save, you negate the spell's effect against you, and you steal the knowledge of the spell if it is at least level 1 and of a level you can cast (it doesn't need to be a Wizard spell). For the next 8 hours, you have the spell prepared. The creature can't cast it until the 8 hours have passed.

Once you steal a spell with this feature, you can't use this feature again until you finish a Long Rest.

Practice the Grim Art of Death

An Assassin's training focuses on using stealth, poison, and disguise to eliminate foes with deadly efficiency. While some Rogues who follow this path are hired killers, spies, or bounty hunters, the capabilities of this subclass are equally useful for adventurers facing a variety of monstrous enemies.

You are expert at the following techniques that aid your infiltrations.

When you use the Poison option of your Cunning Strike, the target also takes 2d6 Poison damage whenever it fails the saving throw. This damage ignores Resistance to Poison damage.

When you hit with your Sneak Attack on the first round of a combat, the target must succeed on a Constitution saving throw (DC 8 plus your Dexterity modifier and Proficiency Bonus), or the attack's damage is doubled against the target.

Wield your Cyber Katana with Supernatural Speed

A Cyber Ninja's talents of agility and precision are honed to the absolute limit through high technology. Bearing superhuman agility and a devastating blade, you can infiltrate any location and eliminate your foes with a single stroke.

Once on each of your turns when you take the Attack action, you can replace one of your attacks with your Cyber Katana with an enormous slash. Choose up to three creatures you can see within 10 feet of yourself. Each creature makes a Dexterity saving throw (DC 8 plus your Dexterity modifier and your Proficiency Bonus), taking Slashing or Lightning damage equal to the damage dealt by your Cyber Katana plus half your number of Sneak Attack damage dice (round down) on a failed save or half as much damage on a successful one.

You can leverage your supernatural speed to use the following techniques.

When you use your Ultra Slash, you can perform an improved slash. You can choose up to six creatures within 30 feet of yourself. Add all of your Sneak Attack damage dice to the damage roll, instead of half of them.

Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a Short or Long Rest.

A Steed Makes the Best Partner in Crime

Stalking the backroads, the Highway Rider strikes fear into the heart of every traveler and penny-pinching merchant. They run down their prize astride a swift and loyal steed—and then make a quick getaway.

You can spend 1 minute grooming and caring for your mount, at the end of which it gains a number of Temporary Hit Points equal to twice your Rogue level.

In addition, your cunning extends to your steed. While you control a mount, it can take one of the following actions as a Bonus Action: Dash, Disengage, or Dodge.

You gain proficiency in Constitution saving throws. In addition, when you are subjected to an effect that allows you to make a Constitution saving throw to take only half damage, you instead take no damage if you succeed on the saving throw, and only half damage if you fail.

When you are reduced to 0 Hit Points and not killed outright, you can use your Hair Trigger feature immediately before you fall Unconscious.

Rogue Subclass: Hack the 'Verse

The most advanced security systems in the 'Verse amount to circuits and wires—an Infiltrator's speciality. Trained in hacking and covert operations, Infiltrator Rogues specialize in technological subterfuge, using system backdoors and a few well-placed viruses to open any door and undermine any foe.

Your skill in creating and using malware grants you the following benefits.

You can cast Electromagical Pulse as a Bonus Action without a spell slot. Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for this spell. Once you cast the spell with this feature, you can't do so in this way again until you finish a Long Rest.

When you hit a creature with your Sneak Attack, you can attempt to temporarily overwrite the target's mind with a bio-magical virus. The target must succeed on an Intelligence saving throw (DC 8 plus your Intelligence modifier and Proficiency Bonus) or have the Charmed condition until the end of your next turn. The Charmed target is Friendly to you and your allies, and follows any commands you issue to it (no action required), such as "Attack that creature" or "Move over there." The Charmed target takes no other actions other than the commands you issue to it.

Once a creature fails its saving throw against this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a Long Rest.

Pierce Through Deception with Sharp Insight

An Inquisitive's mastery lies in uncovering hidden truths and deciphering mysteries with a razor-sharp eye for detail. Combining astute observation with a deep understanding of motives, these Rogues excel at exposing creatures that lurk in the shadows and prey on the unsuspecting. With their profound knowledge and investigative skills, Inquisitives are adept at bringing hidden threats to light and confronting the dark forces that seek to undermine the common folk.

Your ability to understand your enemies allows you to predict posible actions against you. You gain the following Cunning Strike options.

Your senses pierce through deception. You have Truesight within a range of 5 feet, provided you don't have the Blinded or Deafened condition.

As a Bonus Action, you can extend your Truesight to a range of 30 feet until the end of your next turn. You can extend your Truesight this way a number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum of 1), and you regain all expended uses when you finish a Long Rest.

You learn to exploit a creature's weaknesses by carefully studying its tactics and movement. When you hit a creature with Advantage, your Sneak Attack damage against that creature increases by 3d6.

Wield Influence and Secrets with Strategic Precision

A Mastermind excels in the art of manipulation and intrigue, using their understanding of people and their motivations to shape events from the shadows. Whether operating as a cunning spy, a calculating courtier, or a devious schemer, a Mastermind's true power lies in their ability to turn words into weapons and secrets into valuable assets. Masterminds thrive on their knack for negotiation, covert operations, and leveraging information to outmaneuver opponents and achieve their objectives.

Your keen understanding of social dynamics allows you to resist manipulation and subtly influence those around you.

You gain the following Cunning Strike option:

Your mind is an impenetrable fortress, you gain the following benefits.

Curse Those You're About to Strike

You've matched your penchant for illicit activities with the ability to mark your enemies for mishap and misfortune. Whether you were imbued with magic by spending time among the Fey or you learned the art of cursing from a long line of hedge Wizards, you are a Misfortune Bringer. Although not universal, many Misfortune Bringers possess heterochromia iridum—eyes of two different colors—and they use only one when glaring at targets they intend to curse.

When a creature you can see within 30 feet of yourself is about to make a D20 Test with Advantage, you can take a Reaction to prevent the roll from being affected by Advantage. When you do so, you regain 1 expended Jinx Point.

Once you use this feature, you can't do so again until you finish a Short or Long Rest.

You can take a Magic action and spend 3 Jinx Points to cast Bestow Curse.

You can use your Steal Luck feature three times, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a Long Rest.

Rogues who pick this archetype have always felt closer to the energy that is being provided by the celestial bodies. Due to this they can utilise it for their fighting style.

Also at 3rd level, you get an additional cunning strike option:

Starting at 13th level, you have become even more attuned to the energy of the moon, each phase offers an additional effect. Additionally, you may have the effects of two consecutively listed phases active, such as New and Waning. You cannot gain the benefits of both the New and Full Moon or Waxing and Waning Moon Phases at the same time.

Starting at 17th level, you can let your inner sun be blocked by the moon. As an action, you form a 30-foot-radius sphere of magical darkness around you. You can see perfectly fine in the darkness created by this effect. It lasts for 1 minute or until you are Incapacitated.

In addition to that, any other creature that starts its turn in the sphere, or enters it for the first time, must succeed on a Constitution saving throw, using the DC of the Cunning Strike ability, or it takes 3d6 necrotic damage. Half as much on a success.

You can use this feature once, regaining all uses when you finish a Short or Long Rest.

Harness Death's Power to Walk the Shadowed Line

The Phantom Rogue specializes in harnessing the power of death and straddling the line between life and the afterlife. Drawing strength from the dead, they become conduits of the departed's knowledge and wielders of negative energy, eventually becoming like ghosts. Phantoms often serve as spies or gatherers of secret information otherwise lost to the grave. They are typically trained in death-focused places like Shadar-kai enclaves or necromancer strongholds, or they work as agents of death gods, enforcing the inevitability of death upon those who would cheat it.

You now regain one expended Soul Token when you finish a Short Rest. In addition, You gain additional uses for your Soul Trinkets:

You can phase partially into the realm of the dead, becoming like a ghost. As a Bonus Action, you assume a spectral form. While in this form, you have a Fly Speed of 10 feet, you can Hover, and attack rolls have Disadvantage against you. You can also move through creatures and objects as if they were difficult terrain, but you take 1d10 Force damage if you end your turn inside a creature or an object.

You stay in this form for 10 minutes or until you end it as a Bonus Action. Once you use this feature, you can't do so again until you finish a Long Rest unless you expend a Soul Trinket (no action required) to restore your use of it.

Your association with death has become so close that you gain the following benefits:

Eliminate Your Prey with Blood Magic

In dark alleyways across Etharis, deals are made in coin and blood, but a few enterprising Rogues have posed the question: "Why not both?" Sanguine Thieves are assassins who harness the power of Sangromancy to fuel their abilities, finding new and innovative ways to utilize the blood they see all too frequently in their line of work.

Sanguine Thieves learn to draw upon the vitae of their victims, extending their ability to use blood magic beyond the limits of their own vitality. When cornered, Sanguine Thieves can unleash this power in a hail of crimson darts or fade before a foe's blade, leaving nothing behind but a red mist.

When you finish a Long Rest, you can spend up to 2 Hit Dice or Sangromancy Dice to create a number of Daggers equal to the number of dice spent in this way. Each Dagger counts as an Arcane Focus for your Sanguine Thief spells, and you can cast spells with Somatic components even if you wield these weapons in one or both hands.

Additionally, when you score a Critical Hit with this weapon, you can cause the weapon to deal extra damage to the target. The extra damage is a number of d8s equal to the number of Hit Dice or Sangromancy Dice spent on this feature. The extra damage is Necrotic.

The Daggers lasts until you finish a Long Rest.

As a Magic action, you can spend 3 Hit Dice or Sangromancy Dice to fling a wave of needle-like blood shards. When you do so, each creature of your choice in a 30-foot Emanation originating from you must make a Dexterity saving throw against your spell save DC, taking 3d8 Necrotic damage on a failed save or half as much damage on a successful one. You regain 1 Hit Die or Sangromancy Die (your choice) for each creature reduced to 0 Hit Points by this feature.

Once you use this feature, you can't do so again until you finish a Short or Long Rest.

When a creature hits you with an attack roll, you can take a Reaction and spend 5 Hit Dice or Sangromancy Dice to turn into bloody mist. The attack automatically misses you, you can teleport up to 30 feet to an unoccupied space you can see, and you regain your normal form. As part of this Reaction, you can make an attack with a Melee weapon immediately after you teleport. On a hit, this attack deals an extra 5d8 Necrotic damage to the target.

Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a Short or Long Rest.

Become a Gruesome Agent of Malice

A Scion of the Three draws power from a group of malevolent gods known as the Dead Three: Bane, deity of tyranny; Bhaal, deity of violence and murder; and Myrkul, deity of death. While some Rogues of this subclass pledge themselves ardently to those three macabre gods, others find themselves thrust on this path by a curse. Either way, a scion's power manifests as various occult gifts, as well as an uncanny talent for striking and terrifying foes.

Scions of the Three are most common in Baldur's Gate, where the Dead Three have long competed for influence over mortal hearts. Underground cults to Bane, Bhaal, and Myrkul often count Scions of the Three among their most useful agents. Outside Baldur's Gate, secular thieves' guilds such as the Shadow Thieves of Amn or Xanathar's guild in Waterdeep might cautiously call on a Scion of the Three to undertake an especially violent contract.

You gain the following Cunning Strike option.

You radiate malignant power associated with one of the Dead Three. When you use Bloodthirst and teleport, each creature of your choice within 10 feet of either the space you left or your destination space (your choice) takes damage equal to your Intelligence modifier; the damage type is the same as the damage Resistance granted by your choice in the Dread Allegiance feature. Damage dealt by this feature ignores Resistance.

You gain the following benefits.

Master the Wilderness as a Swift and Silent Hunter

Scouts are Rogues who thrive far beyond the city's walls, moving through the wilderness with unmatched agility and stealth. Whether tracking prey, scouting for danger, or ambushing foes, Scouts rely on sharp survival instincts. Often the first to detect threats and strike, they are invaluable as spies, ambushers, and bounty hunters. Their abilities resemble those of Rangers and Barbarians, thriving in natural settings and serving as the eyes and ears of expeditions. Scouts are known for their adaptability, moving unseen through forests, plains, and other wild terrains with precision and speed.

Your walking speed increases by 10 feet. In addition, you gain a Swim Speed and Climb Speed of 40 feet.

You excel at leading ambushes, granting you Advantage on Initiative rolls. In addition, you learn the following Cunning Strike option.

You can strike with deadly speed. If you take the Attack action on your turn, you can make one additional attack as a Bonus Action. This attack can benefit from your Sneak Attack even if you have already used it this turn, but you can't use your Sneak Attack against the same target more than once in a turn.

Rogues are at home in the shadows, slipping into the darkness to evade their enemies, strike down unsuspecting foes, or carry off great treasures. Some Rogues feel a strange presence when they slip into the darkness, whispers at the edge of their hearing.

These Rogues hear the call of the shadow, and they are fated to become bound. The darkness can sense a void in a creature's heart, a yearning that can never be filled. Or perhaps it can. The shadows reach out with a simple offer: yield something of your past and open a path to a future where your empty heart is filled. Those who hear this offer are doomed to accept it, and they are doomed to regret it. Yet, the shadow chooses its partners carefully, knowing that those marked for its bargain can't resist.

You can weave shadows to intercept an attack and direct it harmlessly into a void of darkness. When you use your Uncanny Dodge feature, you can reduce the attack's damage against you to 0.

Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a Long Rest.

Your Shadowy Reflection can create an umbral pathway that you and your companions can use. As a Bonus Action while your Shadowy Reflection is within 5 feet of you, you can expend 4 Shadow Motes to cast Dimension Door. Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for it. Your Shadowy Reflection can travel through the spell.

Your Shadowy Reflection gains the ability to become a deadly clone of you. As a Bonus Action, your Shadowy Reflection transforms into an exact duplicate of you.

For 1 hour, your Shadowy Reflection becomes substantial, and you can have it take the Attack, Hide, or Utilize action by controlling it with your Shadowy Reflection feature. Its Attack action uses your game statistics, including class features, feats, and weapons. It vanishes when reduced to 0 Hit Points.

When you make an attack roll against a creature within 5 feet of the duplicate, the attack roll has Advantage.

Once you use this feature, you can't do so again until you finish a Long Rest.

Deal in Vice to Jinx Foes and Bend Luck

Vice clings to Sinners like a second skin—cheating, drunkenness, and games of chance are their bread and blood. A scoundrel by nature, sin calls their name, and when whispers of malefic powers reach their ears, they listen. Those powers offer more than temptation; they grant the tools to deceive, steal, and even kill with a precision these rogues never dreamed of.

Perhaps it begins with a meeting in a seedy saloon, a ritual under desert skies, or a cursed temple found deep in the jungle. No matter the road, the end is always the same: Jinxcraft. Through hexes, curses, and foul magic, Sinners cast aside judgment and righteousness. The laws of man and gods are nothing to them. Only the cold comfort of the path of sin remains.

Sinners wield their Jinxcraft through a wide variety of jinxed items that serve as magical weapons. The Jinx Weapon Forms table offers suggestions for how your jinx weapon might appear.

When you use Hex Slinger, you siphon away a sliver of the target's luck. You gain Heroic Inspiration if you don't already have it. If you do have it, you can expend your Heroic Inspiration instead of expending a use of Hex Slinger.

When you use Hex Slinger, you can roll the designated Sneak Attack dice twice and choose which total to use.

If the roll you choose is the same number on both dice, the target takes Psychic damage equal to half your level. If the roll you choose is a 2 or a 12, you don't expend that use of Hex Slinger.

You can call on your otherworldly friends in low places to change the odds of anything you do in your favor. You gain the following benefits.

Strike Foes with Psionic Blades

A Soulknife strikes with the mind, cutting through barriers both physical and psychic. These Rogues discover psionic power within themselves and channel it to do their roguish work. As a Soulknife, your psionic abilities might have haunted you since childhood, revealing their full potential only as you experienced the stress of adventure. Or you might have sought out an order of psychic adepts and spent years learning how to manifest your power.

You can now use the following powers with your Psychic Blades.

You can weave a veil of psychic static to mask yourself. As a Magic action, you gain the Invisible condition for 1 hour or until you dismiss this effect (no action required). This invisibility ends early immediately after you deal damage to a creature or you force a creature to make a saving throw.

Once you use this feature, you can't do so again until you finish a Long Rest unless you expend a Psionic Energy Die (no action required) to restore your use of it.

You can sweep your Psychic Blades through a creature's mind. When you use your Psychic Blades to deal Sneak Attack damage to a creature, you can force that target to make a Wisdom saving throw (DC 8 plus your Dexterity modifier and Proficiency Bonus). If the save fails, the target has the Stunned condition for 1 minute. The Stunned target repeats the save at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.

Once you use this feature, you can't do so again until you finish a Long Rest unless you expend three Psionic Energy Dice (no action required) to restore your use of it.

Fight with Poise and Speed, Dancing Around Danger

Swashbucklers are Rogues who blend speed, finesse, and charm to turn combat into a graceful performance. Masters of one-on-one dueling, they dart in and out of danger with unmatched agility, relying on wit and dexterity to outmaneuver opponents. Swashbucklers thrive in duels, pirate skirmishes, and any situation requiring quick thinking and swift strikes. Their flashy, daring combat style sets them apart, making them vexxing for warriors who rely on brute strength alone.

You have practiced new ways to use your Sneak Attack. The following effects are now among your Cunning Strike options.

You have practiced new ways to use your Sneak Attack. The following effects are now among your Cunning Strike options.

Immediately after you use your Sneak Attack, you can make another attack against the same target, provided you are within 5 feet of it and no other creatures are within 5 feet of you.

Hunt for Treasure as a Classic Adventurer

A mix of burglar, treasure hunter, and explorer, you are the epitome of an adventurer. In addition to improving your agility and stealth, you gain abilities useful for delving into ruins and getting maximum benefit from the magic items you find there.

You gain the following Cunning Strike option.

You've learned how to maximize use of magic items, granting you the following benefits.

You are adept at laying ambushes and quickly escaping danger. You can take two turns during the first round of any combat. You take your first turn at your normal Initiative and your second turn at your Initiative minus 10.