The Trickster

A Way with Words

The tricksters greatest weapon is his tongue, able to persuade and lie with ease. His magic only supplements this ability and allows him to deceive and mislead more people. Some tricksters utilise the iconic traveling staff, wielding it with deadly precision, while others focus on the power of words, taunting and destroying their enemies with words of power.

A Tricksters Life

Learning how to be a trickster is a lifelong pursuit, most tricksters show aptitude as children playing harmless, or not so harmless, practical jokes on friends, family or even total strangers. As they grow up they learn to temper their nature and control their desire for chaos in order to have the most impact. Many tricksters venture out of a desire for notoriety and power. Some tricksters may travel out of wanderlust or a search for knowledge while others prefer not to travel at all, finding a city in which to cause maximum chaos.

Creating a Trickster

Tricksters aim to create chaos wherever they travel, nothing gives them greater joy. Think about what motivated you to become a trickster, do you enjoy causing chaos or do you rebel against a lawful society? Did you have a master or role model that you seek to exemplify or did you start on the path to being a trickster alone against the world? How do you support yourself, through thievery or deception or do you earn money legitimately, despite your skills?

When making a trickster it is important to have a reason for your character to be following the path of the trickster. Is your character aware of the pain they cause people, or do they enjoy the suffering of the people they torment?

Quick Build

First make Intelligence your highest stat followed by Dexterity, choose urchin or entertainer as your background. Chose Vicious Mockery and Friends as your cantrips. Pick Secrets of the Mind as your level 1 secret.

Hit Points

Proficiencies

Equipment

You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:

• leather armour
• (a) a quarterstaff or (b) a dagger
• a dagger
• a light crossbow
• (a) a Burglars Pack or (b) an Explorer's Pack and 5 gold

Spellcasting

You have learned to cast simple magics using your wits to power them. See chapter 10 of the player’s handbook for the general rules of spellcasting.

Shifter of Form

Beginning at 2nd level you may choose a beast with a challenge rating less than 1/2. You may transform into this beast as a bonus action. While in this form you retain your mental ability scores, hit points and mental skills but gain physical ability scores, movement speeds, senses and abilities of the chosen form. While in this form you may not cast spells or speak. In addition you may add your Intelligence to your AC while transformed. Your creature type remains the same. you can return to your normal form as a bonus action.

At 7th level you may choose another form within the same restrictions, you may choose also choose 2 additional forms at level 14.

Cunning Defence

You have learned to foresee your opponent’s attacks. Starting at 2nd level your AC is equal to 13 + your Dexterity modifier, provided you are not incapacitated and are not wearing armour.

Trickster Path

When you reach 3rd level you may select a path to follow, either Path of the Vagabond or Path of the Wit, all detailed at the end of the class description. The path gains features at 3rd level and again at 6th, 11 and 17th level.

Luck of the Trickster

Starting at 5th level, glimpses of the future begin to press in on your awareness. When you finish a long rest, roll one d20s and record the number rolled. You can replace any attack roll, saving throw, or ability check made by you or a creature that you can see with one of these foretelling rolls. You must choose to do so before the roll, and you can replace a roll in this way only once per turn. Each foretelling roll can be used only once. When you finish a long rest, you lose any unused foretelling rolls.

You gain an additional dice at 14th level.

Path of the Vagabond

Followers of this path are travellers and drifters, never staying in one place for long, they rely on their wits and trusty quarterstaff to survive, learning to wield it with deathly precision and power. Starting at 3rd level, when you chose this path you may use intelligence instead of strength for the attack and damage rolls of melee attacks using a quarterstaff. You also gain proficiency in Knowledge Nature and Survival, if you are already proficient you gain double proficiency in the skill.

Starting at 6th level you can make 2 attacks when you take the attack action.

Starting at 11th level a target you hit with a quarterstaff must make a strength saving throw or be knocked prone.

Path of the Wit

Followers of this path learn to insult and goad with terrible skill. Starting at 3rd level when you cast Vicious Mockery you may replace the disadvantage on the targets next attack roll with one of the following benefits.

• Mind Melt: The target has disadvantage on the first roll it takes until the end of your next turn.
• Shock: The target cannot take reactions until the end of your next turn.
• Stumble: The targets speed is halved until the end of your next turn.

Starting at 6th level, you can use a bonus action to cause all of the effects of the last Vicious Mockery to persist for an additional round, as if you had casted it again."

Starting at 11th level you can use your Visious Mockery on a crowd of people. Once per short rest you can target every enemy within a 15 ft. of a point within 60 ft. of you.

Level 1

Level 2

Secrets of the Ether

You have learned to throw yourself into the ethereal plane. You can cast blink as a bonus action once per long or short rest.

Secrets of Counterspelling

You have learned to counter you opponents magic. You can cast counter spell once or short or long rest. In addition, your Counterspell cannot be Counterspelled.

Secrets of Antimagic

You have learned to find and dispel magic. You can cast Detect Magic at will and can cast Dispel Magic or Remove Curse once per short or long rest. \page

Secrets of Protection from Divination

You have learnt to hide from the sight of those who would magically scry you. You are under the spell Nondetection at all time.

Secrets of Freedom

You have learnt to move freely at all times. You are under the effects of a Freedom of Movement spell at all time.

Secrets of Movement

You have learned to move swiftly, your movement speed in increased by 10 ft. and you can cast Dimension Door once per long rest.

Secrets of the Unseen II

Your powers to move unseen have increased further. You may cast Greater Invisibility once per long rest.

Secrets of Shape

You have learned to change others shapes in addition to your own. You can cast Polymorph once per long rest. In addition, you may chose beasts of challenge rating less than 1 when you take additional forms.

Secrets of the Mind III

You have gained a mastery of influencing others minds. You can cast either Dominate Person, Dream, Geas, Mislead or Modify Memory once per long rest. In addition, if you have Secrets of the Mind I you can cast each spell one additional time per long rest.

Secrets of the Wild II

Your bond with nature allows you to make swift passage through forests. You can cast tree stride once per short or long rest.

Secrets of Life

You have learned to bring someone back from death. You gain Spare the Dying as a cantrip that does not count towards your limit for number of cantrips known. You can also cast Reincarnate once per long rest.

Secrets of the Wall

You have gained knowledge of walls and buildings. You have advantage on checks to find secrets doors and can cast either Wall of Stone, Wall of Sand, Wall of Wind, Wall of Water or Wall of Fire once per long rest.

Secrets of Sight II

You have learned to see the unseen. You can cast True Seeing on yourself once per long rest. The Duration is increased to 8 hours. In addition, if you know the Secrets of Sight I, you can cast See Invisibility at will.

Secrets of the Crowd

You have learned to control crowds of people with your magic. You can cast either Mass Suggestion, Command (at 6th level) or Charm Person (at 6th level) once per long rest.

Secret of Preparation

You have learned to always be prepared for emergencies. Once per week you can spend an hour to cast Contingency with a duration of 5 days, you can choose any wizard, bard, or cleric spell of 5th level and below to be the triggered spell. The triggered spell is cast at 5th level.

Secret of Illusion

You have mastered the art of tricking people with illusions. When you cast minor illusion, you can create both a sound and an image with a single casting of the spell. You can cast Silent Image at will. You can cast Phantasmal Killer once per short or long rest.

Secrets of Regeneration

You have learned the secrets to regeneration. As long as you are not incapacitated you regain 1 hit point at the start of each minute. In addition, any body parts (fingers, legs, tails, and so on) that have been lost are restored 2 hours after their dismemberment. If you have the severed part and hold it to the stump, the spell instantaneously causes the limb to knit to the stump.

Secrets of the Void

You have learnt the secrets of teleportation. You can cast either teleport or plane shift once per long rest. In addition, you can cast dimension door once per short or long rest.

Secrets of the Wilds III

You have learned to control the weather. You can cast Control Weather once per short or long rest.

Secrets of the Monsters

You have learned how to control monsters. You can cast dominate monster once per day, however the target must not be a humanoid. The duration of this spell is doubled.

Secrets of Trickery

Your voice flows easily and people trust you. You can cast Glibness at will.

Secrets of the Future

You have learned the secret of foresight. You can cast Foresight once per short or long rest targeting yourself only.

Secrets of Death

You have learned to slay with a word. You can cast Power Word Death once per long rest.

Secrets of Form

You have learned to master your shapeshifting. You can cast either Shapeshift or True Polymorph once per long rest. In addition, you may chose a beast of challenge rating less than 2 as an additional form for your Shifter of Forms feature.

Cantrips

• Blade Ward
• Control Flames
• Create Bonfire
• Dancing Lights
• Friends
• Gust
• Light
• Mending
• Minor Illusion
• Prestidigitation
• Produce Flame
• Shape Water
• Thaumaturgy
• True Strike
• Vicious Mockery