Can Cast Spells: No
Cunning, skilled, and always one step ahead, rogues are the masters of stealth and subtlety in a dangerous world. Whether you're a nimble burglar scaling city walls, a keen investigator piecing together clues, or a lethal assassin stalking your prey from the shadows, your ability to spot opportunity and strike at the perfect moment makes you a force to be reckoned with. Through a combination of careful observation, practiced skill, and precise timing, you excel at finding solutions that others might miss -- or prefer to avoid.
As a rogue, your abilities are as diverse as the shadows you inhabit. You might be a charismatic swindler who talks their way past guards, a daring scout who infiltrates enemy lines, or a calculating cutpurse who strikes when least expected. Your expertise allows you to perform extraordinary feats of agility and precision, while your uncanny ability to find and disable traps, pick locks, and solve puzzles makes you an invaluable ally in any adventuring party. When combat erupts, you strike with deadly precision, finding your foes' vulnerabilities and exploiting them with devastating effect.
Hit Dice: 1d8 per rogue level
Hit Points at 1st Level: 8 + your Constitution modifier
Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d8 + your Constitution modifier per rogue level after 1st
Armor: Light armor
Weapons: Simple weapons, hand crossbows, longswords, rapiers, shortswords
Tools: Thieves' tools
Saving Throws: Dexterity, Intelligence
Skills: Choose four from Acrobatics, Athletics, Deception, Insight, Intimidation, Investigation, Perception, Performance, Persuasion, Sleight of Hand, and Stealth
You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:
At 1st level, choose two of your skill proficiencies, or one of your skill proficiencies and your proficiency with thieves' tools. Your proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability check you make that uses either of the chosen proficiencies.
At 6th level, you can choose two more of your proficiencies (in skills or with thieves' tools) to gain this benefit.
Beginning at 1st level, you know how to strike subtly and exploit a foe's distraction. Once per turn, you can deal an extra 1d6 damage to one creature you hit with an attack if you have advantage on the attack roll. The attack must use a finesse or a ranged weapon.
You don't need advantage on the attack roll if another enemy of the target is within 5 feet of it, that enemy isn't incapacitated, and you don't have disadvantage on the attack roll.
The amount of extra damage increases as you gain levels in this class, as shown in the Sneak Attack column of the Rogue table.
During your rogue training you learned thieves' cant, a secret mix of dialect, jargon, and code that allows you to hide messages in seemingly normal conversation. Only another creature that knows thieves' cant understands such messages. It takes four times longer to convey such a message than it does to speak the same idea plainly.
In addition, you understand a set of secret signs and symbols used to convey short, simple messages, such as whether an area is dangerous or the territory of a thieves' guild, whether loot is nearby, or whether the people in an area are easy marks or will provide a safe house for thieves on the run.
Starting at 2nd level, your quick thinking and agility allows you to move and act quickly. You can take a bonus action on each of your turns in combat. This action can be used only to take the Dash, Disengage, or Hide action.
At 3rd level, you choose an archetype that you emulate in the exercise of your rogue abilities. Select one rogue subclass. Your archetype choice grants you features at 3rd level and then again at 9th, 13th, and 17th level.
When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 10th, 12th, 16th, and 19th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, you can't increase an ability score above 20 using this feature.
Starting at 5th level, when an attacker that you can see hits you with an attack, you can use your reaction to halve the attack's damage against you.
Beginning at 7th level, you can nimbly dodge out of the way of certain area effects, such as a red dragon's fiery breath or an ice storm spell. When you are subjected to an effect that allows you to make a Dexterity 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.
By 11th level, you have refined your chosen skills until they approach perfection. Whenever you make an ability check that lets you add your proficiency bonus, you can treat a d20 roll of 9 or lower as a 10.
Starting at 14th level, if you are able to hear, you are aware of the location of any hidden or invisible creature within 10 feet of you.
By 15th level, you have acquired greater mental strength. You gain proficiency in Wisdom saving throws.
Beginning at 18th level, you are so evasive that attackers rarely gain the upper hand against you. No attack roll has advantage against you while you aren't incapacitated.
At 20th level, you have an uncanny knack for succeeding when you need to. If your attack misses a target within range, you can turn the miss into a hit. Alternatively, if you fail an ability check, you can treat the d20 roll as a 20.
Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.
Level |
Proficiency Bonus |
Sneak Attack |
Features |
| 1st | +2 | 1d6 | Expertise, Sneak Attack, Thieves' Cant |
| 2nd | +2 | 1d6 | Cunning Action |
| 3rd | +2 | 2d6 | Roguish Archetype |
| 4th | +2 | 2d6 | Ability Score Improvement |
| 5th | +3 | 3d6 | Uncanny Dodge |
| 6th | +3 | 3d6 | Expertise |
| 7th | +3 | 4d6 | Evasion |
| 8th | +3 | 4d6 | Ability Score Improvement |
| 9th | +4 | 5d6 | Roguish Archetype Feature |
| 10th | +4 | 5d6 | Ability Score Improvement |
| 11th | +4 | 6d6 | Reliable Talent |
| 12th | +4 | 6d6 | Ability Score Improvement |
| 13th | +5 | 7d6 | Roguish Archetype Feature |
| 14th | +5 | 7d6 | Blindsense |
| 15th | +5 | 8d6 | Slippery Mind |
| 16th | +5 | 8d6 | Ability Score Improvement |
| 17th | +6 | 9d6 | Roguish Archetype Feature |
| 18th | +6 | 9d6 | Elusive |
| 19th | +6 | 10d6 | Ability Score Improvement |
| 20th | +6 | 10d6 | Stroke of Luck |
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Arcane Trickster | You enhance your fine-honed skills of stealth and agility with magic, learning tricks of enchantment and illusion. |
| Assassin | You focus your training on the grim art of death. |
| Inquisitive | You excel at rooting out secrets and unraveling mysteries. |
| Mastermind | Your focus is on people and on the influence and secrets they have. |
| Scout | You are skilled in stealth and surviving far from the streets of a city. |
| Swashbuckler | You focus your training on the art of the blade. |
| Thief | You hone your skills in the larcenous arts. |
Player's Handbook. Wizards of the Coast, 2014.
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