Hit Points

• Hit Dice: d8
• Hit Points at 1st Level: 8 + your Constitution modifier
• Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d8 (or 5) + your Constitution modifier per Hacker level after 1st

Proficiencies

• Armor: Light Armor
• Weapons: Simple weapons, cyberblade , firearms
• Tools: Hacking Tools
• Saving Throws: Intelligence, Dexterity
• Skills: Choose two from Investigation, Stealth, Deception, and Insight.

Equipment

You start with the following items, plus anything provided by your origin and your faction.

• (a) pulse pistol with 20 bullets, (b) a cyberblade, or (c) a sniper rifle with 20 shots
• a butterfly knife (dagger)
• studded leather armor
• a cyberdeck, hacking tools, and a dungeoneer's pack

Multiclassing

Ability Score Minimum: Intelligence 13

• When you gain a level in a class other than your first, you gain only some of that class' starting proficiencies.

• Armor: Light armor
• Tools: Hacking Tools
• Skills: Choose 1 from Investigation, Stealth, Deception, or Insight.

Hacker's Insight

You have a deep understanding of computer systems and digital networks. At 1st level you have advantage on Intelligence (Investigation) checks to hack into and manipulate digital devices, systems, and security. At 7th level, you gain expertise with hacking tools, making your hacking craft more effective.

Cyberdeck Mastery

At 1st level, you acquire a cyberdeck, a specialized device used for hacking and interfacing with digital systems. Your cyberdeck is a unique tool that you've customized to suit your needs. It grants you access to various programs and abilities as you level up in the Hacker class.

Some of the Hacker's features requires your target to make a saving throw to resist the effect. The saving throw DC is calculated as follows:

Electroshock Gauntlets

Equip your cybernetic hands with electroshock gauntlets. You deal an additional 1d6 lightning damage whenever you make an unarmed strike, additionally you can make an unarmed strike using a bonus action.

Firewall Surge

Trigger a temporary surge in your cyber defenses. Once per short rest, you can use your reaction to impose disadvantage on an incoming attack against you.

Holo-Disguise

With this function, you can project a holographic disguise around yourself. You can change your appearance to resemble any humanoid creature you've observed at will that lasts for 1 hour. However, physical inspection exposes that it is just an illusion.

Neural Jolt

This implant enhances your reflexes. Once per short rest, you can take an additional reaction in combat, allowing you to react swiftly to threats or opportunities.

Neural Flash

You implant a neural enhancer in your mind. When you make an ability check or a saving throw, you can use your reaction to add your Intelligence modifier to the roll.

You regain all expended uses when you finish a short rest.

Sonic Disruptor

Embed a sonic emitter in your throat. Once per long rest and as an action, you can use your voice to create a deafening sonic blast in a 30-foot cone. Creatures within the area must make a Constitution saving throw against your Hacker save DC or be deafened and take 2d6 thunder damage.

Stealth Mode

Activate a cloaking mechanism as an action that makes you invisible to the naked eye and digital surveillance systems as an action. This function grants you advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks. This mode lasts for an hour and refreshes on a short rest.

Subdermal Firewall

You install a subdermal implant that grants you resistance to fire.

Synaptic Booster

Your reflexes and senses are enhanced. You gain advantage on initiative rolls.

Cyber Heal

You initiate a self-repair routine that rapidly heals your cybernetic enhancements. As a bonus action, you regain hit points equal to your 2 x Hacker Level. You can use this feature twice per long rest.

Digital Blade

This weapon deals 2d8 + your Intelligence modifier force damage and has the finesse and thrown property with a range of (20/60) ft. It disappears and re-appears in your hand if you throw it, regardless if it hits or not.

Drone Commander

You can control a small surveillance drone within 60 ft. of you. You gain the ability to see through its sensors and give it simple commands, such as moving to a location, giving the Help action, or scanning an area. Its maximum control range is 90 ft. and you can assign commands to it as a bonus action. You can use this program for up to 1 hour, and you use this feature again after a long rest.

Firewall

You create a digital barrier that's a 10 ft. radius sphere centered on yourself. It provides +1 AC for you and your allies. The barrier lasts for 1 minute or until dismissed as a bonus action. The barrier is semi-stationary, it can only be moved 20 ft. in any direction once before it stays in place. You use this feature once per short rest.

Lockdown

You conjure a holographic net that becomes tangible onto a creature within 60 ft as an action. The creature must make a Dexterity saving throw against your Hacker save DC or be restrained for 1 minute. At the end of each of its turns, the target can make an Intelligence saving throw. On a success, the effect ends on the target.

Overclock

You boost the performance of a digital device or weapon. You touch and enhance the damage of a weapon or cybernetic implant by 2d6 on the next attack. This damage bonus lasts for 1 minute. You use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus (minimum of 1).

Remote Manipulation

You can manipulate digital devices or objects remotely. With this program, you can open electronic locks, deactivate security systems, or manipulate machinery within 60 ft. as if you were physically present. You must have sight of the object you are trying to manipulate to use this feature.

SpellJammer

You make the weave unstable by making use of radio frequency waves. Choose an area within 30 feet of yourself, a 20-foot radius sphere of radio waves erupts in the chosen place. Anyone who casts a spell within the sphere rolls on the wild magic table twice.

Adrenaline Rush

You boost yourself or a creature's fight response as a bonus action within 30 ft., granting them advantage on their next attack or ability check for 1 minute. You use this feature twice per short rest.

Defense Matrix

Starting at 3rd level, you can create a digital shield around an ally as a reaction when they take damage, applying the temporary hitpoints before damage calculation. You grant them temporary hit points equal to your Intelligence modifier + your Hacker level. You use this an amount of times equal to your proficiency bonus. The temporary hit points last for 8 hours or until it's been used up.

Enhanced Connectivity

Starting at 7th level, you can establish a secure digital network between you and up to 10 allies within 30 ft. as an action, granting you the ability to communicate telepathically within a range of 100 feet. This feature lasts for one hour and you can use this twice per long rest.

Digital Lifeline

At 10th level, you learn to establish an emergency digital lifeline. As an action, you can touch an ally to establish this connection. The first time within 8 hours the target would drop to 0 hit points as a result of taking damage, the target instead drops to 1 hit point, and the connection ends.

You can establish a connection once, and again when you finish a Long Rest.

Team Resilience

At level 14, you can grant up to 10 allies temporary hit points equal to your Hacker level + your Intelligence modifier as a bonus action within 60 ft. This ability can be used twice per long rest. The temporary hit points lasts for 8 hours or until used up.

Infiltrator Adept

Starting at 3rd level, you can choose to either gain expertise in Stealth or Sleight of Hand, you gain proficiency instead if you aren't proficient already. Additionally, You leave no trace of your digital activities, making it nearly impossible for others to trace your steps. Tracking or locating your digital footprints becomes extremely difficult as people who wish to make an Intelligence (Investigation) check to discover your tracks have disadvantage on the check.

Nimble

When you choose this archetype at 3rd level, your body is used to scaling the high rise buildings of Adapus. Climbing no longer costs you extra movement, and when you make a running jump (both long and high), the distance you cover increases by a number of feet equal to your Dexterity modifier.

Data Nabber

Starting at 7th level, you steal data more efficiently and discreetly. Whenever you make an Intelligence (Investigation) check to hack and steal data, you can roll an additional 1d4 to that roll, potentially turning it into a success. You use this feature once per short rest.

Smooth Criminal

At 10th level, you learn how to hack without the use of your cyberdeck, foregoing the device and settling with a pair of cyber shades, eye glasses or contact lenses that allows you to hack remotely. This allows you to hack in plain sight, but it requires you to do simple hand movements.

Vanishing Act

At 14th level, you've perfected the art of disappearing. When you take damage that would reduce you to 0 hit points, you drop to 1 hit point instead and you can use your reaction to become invisible for 1 minute or until you choose to end it as a bonus action. The invisibility breaks once you attack or cast a spell. Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.

Reality Manipulation

You gain the ability to manipulate reality's data on a small scale. As an action, you can modify the properties of the environment within a 5 foot cube within 30 ft. of yourself. For example, you could create cover, alter the terrain, or obscure vision. This effect lasts for one minute or until dismissed as a bonus action. You use this feature once per long rest.

Implant Weakness

At 3rd level you can implant a digital weakness into an enemy within 60 feet of you as an action. The target must make a Constitution saving throw against your Hacker save DC or have a weakness implanted in them. This weakness amplifies the damage they take from your hacking abilities and attacks, as well as from your fellow ally's attacks. Initially, it adds 1d6 damage of the same type as the attack that triggers it (limited to only slashing, bludgeoning, and piercing damage). At 7th level, this weakness extends to all damage types.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier (a minimum of once).

Phantom Pursuer

At 3rd level, you can quickly pin down your targets and chase after them. You are equipped with boosters that allows you to double your movement speed once per short rest for 1 round, activating it as a bonus action. Upon reaching 10th level, you gain a temporary flight speed equal to your movement speed as your boosters propel you into the air. You fall if you're still mid-air by the time the flight speed is fully consumed.

Sneak Attack

Starting at 3rd level when you make a successful attack with a finesse weapon against a creature you have advantage on, you deal extra 1d6 damage. You must be wielding a cyberblade, a sniper rifle or a pulse pistol for this feature to take effect.

You don't need advantage on the Attack roll if there are no other enemies or allies within 5 feet of it, that enemy isn't Incapacitated, and you don't have disadvantage on the Attack roll.

The amount of the extra damage increases as you gain levels in this class. The damage increases to 2d6 at 4th, 3d6 at 8th, 4d6 at 12th, 5d6 at 15th, and 6d6 at 20th.

Evasion

Starting at 7th level, when you are subjected to an effect that allows you to make a Dexterity saving throw to take only half damage, you can use your Evasion feature to take no damage on a successful save or half damage on a failed save.

Cloak of Shadows

At 10th level, you gain the ability to cast the Invisibility spell without expending a spell slot and or material components. You use this feature twice per long rest.

Ethereal Strike

Starting at level 14, when you make an attack against a creature you can see and hit, you can use your bonus action to turn ethereal until the start of your next turn. While ethereal, you are considered invisible and you can move through other creatures and objects as if they were difficult terrain. You can also enter the Ethereal Plane as an action, but you can't interact with other creatures in that plane. If you end your turn inside another creature or an object, you take 2d10 force damage.

Pulse Pistol

Firearm, martial weapon, ranged weapon

• 1d6 piercing - ammunition (50/150 ft.) reload (6 shots)

Range. A weapon that can be used to make a ranged attack has a range shown in parentheses after the ammunition or thrown property. The range lists two numbers. The first is the weapon's normal range in feet, and the second indicates the weapon's maximum range. When attacking a target beyond normal range, you have disadvantage on the attack roll. You can't attack a target beyond the weapon's long range.

Ammunition. You can use a weapon that has the ammunition property to make a ranged attack only if you have ammunition to fire from the weapon. Each time you attack with the weapon, you expend one piece of ammunition. Drawing the ammunition from a quiver, case, or other container is part of the attack. Loading a one-handed weapon requires a free hand. The ammunition of a firearm is destroyed upon use.

If you use a weapon that has the ammunition property to make a melee attack, you treat the weapon as an improvised weapon. A sling must be loaded to deal any damage when used in this way.

Reload. A limited number of shots can be made with a weapon that has the reload property. A character must then reload it using an action. A reload happens when there are no more shots as indicated in the weapon's description.

Cyberblade

Martial weapon, melee weapon

• 1d6 slashing - versatile (1d8)

Finesse. When making an attack with a finesse weapon, you use your choice of your Strength or Dexterity modifier for the attack and damage rolls. You must use the same modifier for both rolls.

Versatile. This weapon can be used with one or two hands. A damage value in parentheses appears with the property—the damage when the weapon is used with two hands to make a melee attack.

Sniper Rifle

Firearm, martial weapon, ranged weapon

• 1d10 piercing - ammunition (200/600 ft.) reload (2 shots)

Range. A weapon that can be used to make a ranged attack has a range shown in parentheses after the ammunition or thrown property. The range lists two numbers. The first is the weapon's normal range in feet, and the second indicates the weapon's maximum range. When attacking a target beyond normal range, you have disadvantage on the attack roll. You can't attack a target beyond the weapon's long range.

Ammunition. You can use a weapon that has the ammunition property to make a ranged attack only if you have ammunition to fire from the weapon. Each time you attack with the weapon, you expend one piece of ammunition. Drawing the ammunition from a quiver, case, or other container is part of the attack. Loading a one-handed weapon requires a free hand. The ammunition of a firearm is destroyed upon use.

If you use a weapon that has the ammunition property to make a melee attack, you treat the weapon as an improvised weapon. A sling must be loaded to deal any damage when used in this way.

Reload. A limited number of shots can be made with a weapon that has the reload property. A character must then reload it using an action. A reload happens when there are no more shots as indicated in the weapon's description.

Two-Handed. This weapon requires two hands to use. This property is relevant only when you attack with the weapon, not when you simply hold it.

Cyberdeck

A cyberdeck is a flat, smooth rectangular device that can be controlled and accessed with just a touch of your finger. It's powered by CRYSTAL shards, removing the need to charge the device.

Hacking Tools

This kit contains the hardware and software necessary to allow access into most computer systems and electronic devices. Proficiency with hacking tools lets you add your proficiency bonus to any checks you make to connect to or make use of a computer system or electronic device. The kit fits snugly in a backpack or toolbox.

Typical Hacking DCs

Hacking Failure

When a hacking check results in a failure, the DM decides the consequences. A failure on the check does not necessarily mean the hacking failed entirely; the goal may have been achieved with simultaneous consequences. The following are some examples of consequences that a DM may use:

• The hacker experiences dumpshock.
• The hacker is locked out of the system.
• An alarm is triggered.
• The hacker leaves traces in the system that allows investigators to track them down.
• Data is muddled, corrupted, or destroyed.
• A virus attempts to infect the hacker.
• The target machine breaks.
• The task takes longer than anticipated.

Wireless Hacking

Using the wireless capabilities from hacking tools, you can connect to a wireless port from anywhere in a machine’s wireless range. It is possible to set up a rogue wireless access port by installing a wireless transceiver in a physical port.

Hacking in Combat

The amount of time hacking takes is dependent upon the complexity of the security of whatever you're hacking. A simple (DC 5) target, like a cheap vending machine, would take a single round to bypass. Something more secure, like a vault door, would take 2d4 rounds. If the hacker gets interrupted, they would have to start all over again, taking another 2d4 rounds to finish the task.