Rogue

Rogues rely on cunning, stealth, and their foes' vulnerabilities to get the upper hand in any situation. They have a knack for finding the solution to just about any problem. A few even learn magical tricks to supplement their other abilities. Many Rogues focus on stealth and deception, while others refine skills that help them in a dungeon environment, such as climbing, finding and disarming traps, and opening locks.

In combat, Rogues prioritize subtle strikes over brute strength. They would rather make one precise strike than wear an opponent down with a barrage of blows.

Some Rogues began their careers as criminals, while others used their cunning to fight crime. Whatever a Rogue's relation to the law, no common criminal or officer of the law can match the subtle brilliance of the greatest Rogues.

Quick Build

You can make a rogue quickly by following these suggestions. First, Dexterity should be your highest ability score. Make Intelligence your next-highest if you want to excel at Investigation or plan to take up the Arcane Trickster archetype. Choose Charisma instead if you plan to emphasize deception and social interaction. Second, choose the charlatan background.

Proficiencies

Armor: light armor
Weapons: Simple Weapons, Martial Weapons that have the Finesse or Light Property.
Tools: thieves' tools, two of your choice.
Saving Throws: Dexterity, Intelligence
Skills: Any six of your choice.

Starting Equipment

You start with the following items, plus anything provided by your background.

• (a) Leather Armor, 2 Daggers, a Shortsword, a Shortbow, 20 Arrows, a Quiver, Thieves' Tools, a Burglar's Pack, and 8 GP.
• (b) 100 GP

Maneuver Options

The Battle Maneuvers are presented here in Alphabetical order.

Ambush. When you make a Dexterity (Stealth) check or an Initiative roll, you can expend one Superiority Die and add the die to the roll, unless you have the Incapacitated condition.

Bait and Switch. When you're within 5 feet of a creature on your turn, you can expend one Superiority Die and switch places with that creature, provided you spend at least 5 feet of movement and the creature is willing and doesn't have the Incapacitated condition. This movement doesn't provoke Opportunity Attacks. Roll the Superiority Die. Until the start of your next turn, you or the other creature (your choice) gains a bonus to AC equal to the number rolled.

Commander's Strike. When you take the Attack action on your turn, you can replace one of your attacks to direct one of your companions to strike. When you do so, choose a willing creature who can see or hear you and expend one Superiority Die. That creature can immediately use its Reaction to make one attack with a weapon or an Unarmed Strike, adding the Superiority Die to the attack's damage roll on a hit.

Commanding Presence. When you make a Charisma (Intimidation, Performance, or Persuasion) check, you can expend one Superiority Die and add that die to the roll.

Disarming Attack. When you hit a creature with an attack roll, you can expend one Superiority Die to attempt to disarm the target. Add the Superiority Die roll to the attack's damage roll. The target must succeed on a Strength saving throw or drop one object of your choice that it's holding, with the object landing in its space.

Distracting Strike. When you hit a creature with an attack roll, you can expend one Superiority Die to distract the target. Add the Superiority Die roll to the attack's damage roll. The next attack roll against the target by an attacker other than you has Advantage if the attack is made before the start of your next turn.

Evasive Footwork. As a Bonus Action, you can expend one Superiority Die and take the Disengage action. You also roll the die and add the number rolled to your AC until the start of your next turn.

Feinting Attack. As a Bonus Action, you can expend one Superiority Die to feint, choosing one creature within 5 feet of yourself as your target. You have Advantage on your next attack roll against that target this turn. If that attack hits, add the Superiority Die to the attack's damage roll.

Goading Attack. When you hit a creature with an attack roll, you can expend one Superiority Die to attempt to goad the target into attacking you. Add the Superiority Die to the attack's damage roll. The target must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or have Disadvantage on attack rolls against targets other than you until the end of your next turn.

Lunging Attack. As a Bonus Action, you can expend one Superiority Die and take the Dash action. If you move at least 5 feet in a straight line immediately before hitting with a melee attack as part of the Attack action on this turn, you can add the Superiority Die to the attack's damage roll.

Maneuvering Attack. When you hit a creature with an attack roll, you can expend one Superiority Die to maneuver one of your comrades into another position. Add the Superiority Die roll to the attack's damage roll, and choose a willing creature who can see or hear you. That creature can use its Reaction to move up to half its Speed without provoking an Opportunity Attack from the target of your attack.

Menacing Attack. When you hit a creature with an attack roll, you can expend one Superiority Die to attempt to frighten the target. Add the Superiority Die to the attack's damage roll. The target must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or have the Frightened condition until the end of your next turn.

Parry. When another creature damages you with a melee attack roll, you can take a Reaction and expend one Superiority Die to reduce the damage by the number you roll on your Superiority Die plus your Strength or Dexterity modifier (your choice).

Precision Attack. When you miss with an attack roll, you can expend one Superiority Die, roll that die, and add it to the attack roll, potentially causing the attack to hit.

Spellcasting

You have learned to cast spells. See chapter 7 of the 2024 Player's Handbook for the rules on spellcasting. The information below details how you use those rules as an Arcane Trickster.

Cantrips. You know three cantrips: Mage Hand and two other cantrips of your choice from the Wizard spell list (see that class's section for its list). Mind Sliver and Minor Illusion are recommended.

Whenever you gain a Rogue level, you can replace one of your cantrips, except Mage Hand, with another Wizard cantrip of your choice.

When you reach Rogue level 10, you learn another Wizard cantrip of your choice.

Spell Slots. The Arcane Trickster Spellcasting table shows how many spell slots you have to cast your level 1+ spells. You regain all expended spell slots when you finish a Long Rest.

Prepared Spells of 1st+ Level. You prepare the list of level 1+ spells that are available for you to cast with this feature. To start, choose four level 1 Wizard spells. Charm Person, Disguise Self, and Fog Cloud are recommended.

The number of spells on your list increases as you gain Rogue levels, as shown in the Prepared Spells column of the Arcane Trickster Spellcasting table. Whenever that number increases, choose additional Wizard spells until the number of spells on your list matches the number in the Arcane Trickster Spellcasting table. The chosen spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots. For example, if you're a level 7 Rogue, your list of prepared spells can include five Wizard spells of level 1 or 2 in any combination.

Changing Your Prepared Spells. Whenever you gain a Rogue level, you can replace one spell on your list with another Wizard spell for which you have spell slots.

Spellcasting Ability. Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for your Wizard spells.

Spellcasting Focus. You can use an Arcane Focus as a Spellcasting Focus for your Wizard spells.

Mage Hand Legerdemain

At 3rd level, When you cast Mage Hand, you can cast it as a Bonus Action, and you can make the spectral hand Invisible. You can control the hand as a Bonus Action, and through it, you can make Dexterity (Sleight of Hand) checks.

Magical Ambush

At 9th level, 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.

Versatile Trickster

At 13th level, 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.

Spell Thief

At 17th level, 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.

Assassinate

At 3rd level, You're adept at ambushing a target, granting you the following benefits.

Initiative. You have Advantage on Initiative rolls.

Surprising Strikes. During the first round of each combat, you have Advantage on attack rolls against any creature that hasn't taken a turn. If your Sneak Attack hits any target during that round, the target takes extra damage of the weapon's type equal to your Rogue level.

Assassin's Tools

At 3rd level, you gain a Disguise Kit and a Poisoner's Kit, and you have proficiency with them.

Infiltration Expertise

At 9th level, you are expert at the following techniques that aid your infiltrations.

Masterful Mimicry. You can unerringly mimic another person's speech, handwriting, or both if you have spent at least 1 hour studying them.

Roving Aim. Your Speed isn't reduced to 0 by using Steady Aim.

Envenom Weapons

At 13th level, 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.

Death Strike

At 17th level, 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.

Wails From the Grave

At 3rd level, you can cause your Sneak Attack Dice to deal Necrotic Damage instead of the normal Damage they would deal.

Additionally, Immediately after you deal your Sneak Attack damage to a creature on your turn, you can target a second creature that you can see within 30 feet of the first creature. Roll half the number of Sneak Attack dice for your level (round up), and the second creature takes Necrotic damage equal to the roll’s total as wails of the dead momentarily sound around them.

You can target a second creature in this way a number of times equal to your Dexterity modifier (minimum of once), and you regain all expended uses when you finish a Short Long Rest.

Whispers of the Dead

At 3rd level, Whenever you finish a Short or Long Rest, you can choose one skill or tool proficiency that you lack and gain it, as a ghostly presence shares its knowledge with you. You lose this proficiency when you use this benefit again to choose a different proficiency.

Voice of Death

At 9th level, you can cast Speak with Dead once without a spell slot, requiring no spell components and using Dexterity as the spellcasting modifier.

You regain the ability to cast it this way when you finish a Short or Long Rest.

Tokens of the Departed

At 9th level, the spirits of the dead are drawn to you, and echoes of their past lives magically manifest as strange curios with resonant power.

Whenever you finish a Long Rest, you gain soul trinkets equal to your Proficiency Bonus minus one; each soul trinket is a Tiny object (the DM determines the trinket’s form or has you roll on the Trinkets table in the Player’s Handbook to generate it). These trinkets last until you finish another Long Rest, at which point they disintegrate. If you ever move more than 30 feet from a trinket, the trinket immediately teleports to you, appearing somewhere on your person.

Using Soul Trinkets. You can use soul trinkets in the following ways:

Death’s Knell. When you deal Sneak Attack damage on your turn, you can expend one soul trinket and immediately use Wails from the Grave without expending a use of that feature. The expended trinket is destroyed.

Life Essence. While you have at least one soul trinket, you have Advantage on Death Saving Throws and Constitution saving throws.

Spirit Query. You can take a Magic action to expend one soul trinket and immediately cast the Augury spell, requiring no spell components and using Dexterity as the spellcasting modifier. The expended trinket is destroyed.

Regaining Soul Trinkets. When a creature you can see within 30 feet of you dies, you can take a Reaction to regain one expended soul trinket.

Ghost Walk

At 13th level, as a Bonus Action, you assume a spectral form, gaining the benefits below for 1 minute or until you end them (no action required). Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a Short or Long Rest unless you expend and destroy one of your soul trinkets from Tokens of the Departed (no action required) to restore your use of it.

Flight. You gain a Fly Speed equal to your Speed and can hover.

Hazy Form. Attack rolls have Disadvantage against you and you gain Resistance against Non-magical Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing Damage.

Incorporeal Movement. You can move through occupied spaces as if they were Difficult Terrain and phase through solid objects. If you end your turn in such a space or object, you take 1d10 Force damage and are shunted to the nearest unoccupied space.

Bloodthirst

At 3rd level, If your Sneak Attack hits a Bloodied creature, the target takes extra damage of the weapon's type equal to half your Rogue level (round up).

In addition, when an enemy you can see is reduced to 0 Hit Points, you can take a Reaction and teleport to an unoccupied space you can see within 30 feet of yourself. You can then make one melee attack. You can use this Reaction a number of times equal to your Dexterity modifier (minimum of once), and you regain all expended uses when you finish a Long Rest.

Dread Allegiance

At 3rd level, Choose one of the Dead Three: Bane, Bhaal, or Myrkul. You gain Resistance to one type of damage and the ability to cast a cantrip, as detailed in the table below; Intelligence, Wisdom or Charisma is your spellcasting ability for this cantrip (you choose which when you gain this feature and may not change your choice later). When you finish a Long Rest, you can change your choice.

Strike Fear

At 9th level, You gain the following Cunning Strike option.

Terrify (Cost: 1d6). The target must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw, or it has the Frightened condition for 1 minute. The Frightened target repeats the save at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.

Aura of Malevolence

At 13th level, You radiate malignant power associated with one of the Dead Three. At the start of each of your turns, each creature of your choice within a 10-foot Emanation originating from you takes damage equal to your Dexterity modifier (minimum of 1); the damage type is the same as the damage Resistance granted by your choice in the Dread Allegiance feature.

Damage dealt by this aura ignores Resistance. The aura is inactive while you have the Incapacitated condition.

Dread Incarnate

At 17th level, You gain the following benefits.

Battle Tyrant. You have Advantage on attack rolls against any creature with the Frightened condition.

Embodiment of Fear. You are Immune to the Frightened condition.

Murderous Intent. When you roll for your Sneak Attack damage, you can treat a roll of a 1 or 2 on the die as a 3.

Psionic Power

At 3rd level, You harbor a wellspring of psionic energy within yourself. It is represented by your Psionic Energy Dice, which fuel certain powers you have from this subclass. The Soulknife Energy Dice table shows the number of these dice you have when you reach certain Rogue levels, and the table shows the die size.

Any features in this subclass that use a Psionic Energy Die use only the dice from this subclass. Some of your powers expend a Psionic Energy Die, as specified in a power's description, and you can't use a power if it requires you to use a die when your Psionic Energy Dice are all expended.

You regain one of your expended Psionic Energy Dice when you finish a Short Rest, and you regain all of them when you finish a Long Rest.

Psi-Bolstered Knack. If you fail an ability check using a skill or tool with which you have proficiency, you can roll one Psionic Energy Die and add the number rolled to the check, potentially turning failure into success. The die is expended only if the roll then succeeds.

Psychic Whispers. You can establish telepathic communication between yourself and others. As a Magic action, choose one or more creatures you can see, up to a number of creatures equal to your Proficiency Bonus, and then roll one Psionic Energy Die. For a number of hours equal to the number rolled, the chosen creatures can speak telepathically with you, and you can speak telepathically with them. To send or receive a message (no action required), you and the other creature must be within 1 mile of each other. A creature can end the telepathic connection at any time (no action required).

The first time you use this power after each Long Rest, you don't expend the Psionic Energy Die. All other times you use the power, you expend the die.

Psychic Blades

At 3rd level, you can manifest shimmering blades of psychic energy. Whenever you take the Attack action or make an Opportunity Attack, you can manifest a Psychic Blade in your free hand and make the attack with that blade. The magic blade has the following traits:

Soul Blades

At level 9, you can now use the following powers with your Psychic Blades.

Homing Strikes. If you make an attack roll with your Psychic Blade and miss the target, you can roll one Psionic Energy Die and add the number rolled to the attack roll. If this causes the attack to hit, the die is expended.

Psychic Teleportation. As a Bonus Action, you manifest a Psychic Blade, expend one Psionic Energy Die and roll it, and throw the blade at an unoccupied space you can see up to a number of feet away equal to 10 times the number rolled. You then teleport to that space, and the blade vanishes.

Fast Hands

At 3rd level, As a Bonus Action, you can do one of the following.

Sleight of Hand. Make a Dexterity (Sleight of Hand) check to pick a lock or disarm a trap with Thieves' Tools or to pick a pocket.

Use an Object. Take the Utilize action, or take the Magic action to use a magic item that requires that action.

Additionally, you gain a second Bonus Action.

Second-Story Work

At 3rd level, you've trained to get into especially hard-to-reach places, granting you these benefits.

Climber. You gain a Climb Speed equal to your Speed.

Jumper. You can determine your jump distance using your Dexterity rather than your Strength.

Supreme Sneak

Starting at 9th level, You gain the following Cunning Strike option.

Stealth Attack (Cost: 1d6). If you have the Hide action's Invisible condition, this attack doesn't end that condition on you if you end the turn behind Three-Quarters Cover or Total Cover.

Use Magic Device

At 13th level, You've learned how to maximize use of magic items, granting you the following benefits.

Attunement. You can attune to up to four magic items at once.

Charges. Whenever you use a magic item property that expends charges, roll 1d6. On a roll of 6, you use the property without expending the charges.

Scrolls. You can use any Spell Scroll, using Intelligence as your spellcasting ability for the spell. If the spell is a cantrip or a level 1 spell, you can cast it reliably. If the scroll contains a higher-level spell, you must first succeed on an Intelligence (Arcana) check (DC 10 plus the spell's level). On a successful check, you cast the spell from the scroll. On a failed check, the scroll disintegrates.

Thief's Reflexes

At 17th level, 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.

Arcane Greed

Prerequisites(s): 3rd level, Arcane Trickster Subclass.

You can cast identify at will, without expending a spell slot.

Arcane Sight

Prerequisites(s): Proficient in the Arcana skill

You can cast detect magic at will, without expending a spell slot.

Blademaster

Prerequisites(s): 5th level, Proficiency with at least one Martial Weapon.

Select one type of martial weapon with which you are proficient. While you are wielding this weapon, it counts as magical for the purpose of piercing resistance and immunity. You also gain one additional Weapon Mastery.

Carnie

Prerequisites(s): Thrown Weapon Fighting Feat.

The ranges of any weapon you use with the Thrown property are doubled when you throw that weapon.

Deathstroke

Prerequisites(s): 3rd Level, Assassin Subclass.

You treat a roll of a 1 on any Sneak Attack Die as a 2 instead.

Duel of Honor

Prerequisites(s): Proficient in the Deception or Intimidation Skill. Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma 14 or higher.

You can cast compelled duel at 1st level once without using a spell slot. You can't do so again until you finish a short or long rest. Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma is your Spellcasting modifier for this spell (you choose which when you take this talent).

Expert

Prerequisites(s): N/A
You choose one Skill or Tool with which you are Proficient. You gain Expertise with that Skill or Tool. This talent can be taken up to two times, and you must choose a different skill or tool to benefit from this Talent for each.

Giantslayer

Prerequisites(s): N/A

You gain a climbing speed equal to your walking speed if you don't already have one. If you already have a climbing speed, your movement is increased by 30 feet while using it. You can use your climbing speed to scale creatures that are at least one size larger than you. At the start of each of your turns while you are climbing this creature, you must make a Strength (Athletics) skill check contested by a Strength (Athletics) skill check from the creature you are climbing.

While you are climbing a creature in this way, you have advantage on your melee attack rolls against it while that creature has disadvantage on attacks against you. The creature you are climbing has advantage on a Strength (Athletics) Skill Check made to grapple you while you are climbing it.

Hard Landing

Prerequisite(s): Constitution 14 or higher.

You halve any falling damage you take. At 10th level, you reduce any damage you would take from falling to 0.

Mighty Blows

Prerequisites(s): 10th level, Strength or Dexterity 18

Once per turn, when you deal damage with a Melee Weapon Attack or Unarmed Strike, you can deal extra damage equal to your Proficiency Bonus.

Mythical Charm

Prerequisites(s): Proficient in the Persuasion Skill. Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma 14 or higher.

You can cast charm person at 1st level once without using a spell slot. You can't do so again until you finish a short or long rest. Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma is your Spellcasting modifier for this spell (you choose which when you take this talent).

Pincer Strike

Prerequisites(s): 10th level, Strength 18 or higher, Two-Weapon Fighting Feat, Twin Strikes Martial talent

When you engage in two-weapon fighting using two of the same type of weapon and make a Power Attack with the weapon in your primary hand, you can use your Reaction to strike with your offhand weapon as if it gained the bonus from Power Attack. You must finish a Long Rest to use this talent again.

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1.0

• Expertise gives 3 skills for a total of 6.
• Added Battle Maneuvers.
• Added Second Strike, an extra attack for Rogues at 11th to bring their damage up during the mid-late game.
• Ported basically all my stuff from 2014 revised rogue.

1.1

• Added a Revised version of the UA Scion of the Three Rogue Subclass.
• Bloodthirst's uses per rest are now Dex modifier instead of INT modifier.
• Dread Allegiance lets you pick your casting stat.
• Aura of Malevolence now has DEX Mod uses instead of INT mod.
• Dread Incarnate makes you Immune to Frightened.

1.2

• Added Fast Hands' Bauldur's Gate 3 extra Bonus Action.

1.3

• Added a revised version of the Phantom Sucblass from the newest UA. This includes Wails from the Grave restoring on Short Rest and Long Rest, Sneak Attack Dice being able to do Necrotic Damage, Trinkets scaling with Proficiency Bonus, Ghost walk's features now offering Speed in flight, resistance to Non-magical Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing damage, Incorporeal movement allowing for the user to pass through solid objects and detailing what happens if you end a turn in that space (being shunted to the nearest unoccupied space), Death's Lament letting Wails from the Grave affect two other creatures at once, and Draw of Death adding the trinkets you have to your Initiative.