Rogue

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Become a Gruesome Agent of Malice

A Scion of the Three draws power from a group of malevolent gods known as the Dead Three: FRHoF, deity of tyranny; FRHoF, deity of violence and murder; and FRHoF, 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 FRHoF, FRHoF, and FRHoF 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 XPHB option.

Terrify (Cost: 1d6)

The target must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw, or it has the Frightened condition for 1 minute. While the target is Frightened in this way, you have Advantage on attack rolls against the target.

The Frightened target repeats the save at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.

You radiate malignant power associated with one of the Dead Three. When you use XPHB 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.

Cutthroat

You regain one expended use of XPHB when you finish a Short Rest.

Murderous Intent

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

Embrace Death and Wield Ghostly Power

Some Rogues traverse the veil between life and death, shepherding opponents to the grave and slipping through the world as undetectable as a spirit. In these pursuits, a Rogue might discover a mystical connection to death itself. Such an individual becomes immersed in negative energy, infusing their strikes with deathly energy and stealing knowledge from souls who have passed on. Thieves' guilds value Rogues of this persuasion as highly effective information gatherers and spies.

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

You gain two soul trinkets. A 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). If you 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 destroy one soul trinket and immediately use Wails from the Grave without expending a use of that feature.
• 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 destroy one soul trinket and immediately cast the Augury spell, requiring no spell components and using Constitution as the spellcasting modifier. If you know the creature with which the trinket is associated, you can ask the creature's spirit one question instead of casting the spell. In this case, the spirit appears to you and answers as concisely as possible in a language it knew in life.

Gaining Additional Soul Trinkets

When a creature you can see within 30 feet of you dies, you can take a Reaction to gain another soul trinket, claiming a sliver of that creature's departing spirit. The new trinket appears somewhere on your person.

You can have a maximum of two soul trinkets at a time. If you try to gain a soul trinket while at your maximum, one of your existing trinkets is immediately destroyed and replaced by the new trinket. The maximum number of soul trinkets you can have increases when you reach Rogue levels 13 (three trinkets) and 17 (four trinkets).

Whenever you finish a Long Rest with fewer than two soul trinkets, you gain soul trinkets until you have two.

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.

When you cast the spell, you can target one of your soul trinkets from Tokens of the Departed instead of a corpse, allowing the spirit of the creature associated with the trinket to answer.

As a Bonus Action, you assume a spectral form, gaining the benefits below for 10 minutes or until you end them (no action required). Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a Long Rest unless you 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 of 10 feet and can hover.

Hazy Form

Attack rolls have Disadvantage against you.

Incorporeal Movement

You can 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.

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

Death's Lament

When you use Wails from the Grave, you can deal the feature's Necrotic damage to both the first and the second creature.

Draw of Death

When you roll Initiative, you gain one soul trinket for your Tokens of the Departed if you have none remaining.

As magic has grown in the world, so too have its various practitioners: some study assiduously, some are born with innate magic, some draw upon nature or the divine. You, however, are of an order altogether new and unique, drawing upon the Weave of magic indirectly. You utilize the remnants of magic already cast, something unseen by most, but you have adopted a special attunement for discovering arcane echoes.

You have learned enough about magic to have an elementary grasp of some of its precepts. Choose 2 cantrips from the Wizard spell list. You can cast these cantrips at will. Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for these cantrips.

In addition, you can cast detect magic and identify spells as rituals.

By the time you are 3rd level in this class, you have learned to identify spells and the echoes they leave behind. When a spell is cast, it leaves behind an echo you can see or feel until the start of the caster's next turn; you can absorb that arcane energy and use it to your benefit. Check out the Echo Table below for certain levels and the echoes of spells you can absorb. If a spell fits the criteria, you can absorb the echo of a spell that is cast since the end of your last turn using your bonus action. The absorption lasts until the start of your next turn. You can't feel or see the spell if the origin is under total cover, meaning you can't absorb it even if its distance matches, and you can have only one echo absorbed at a given time. Any effects on creatures due to an Echo's effects are negated if you gain a new Echo or the Echo's duration has elapsed.

The absorption's duration increases by 1 minute each time you gain a new Subclass Feature (at levels 9, 13, 17).

The distance of a spell addresses the origin of a spell, not the point it reaches or effects.

Echo Table

When you absorb a spell, you can improve your abilities to do one of the following while the echo remains absorbed by you:

Magical Sneak Attack. You can forgo 1d6 from your Sneak Attack dice to make your damage force damage, instead of the normal damage type of your weapon.

Elemental Sneak Attack. If you absorb a damaging spell that deals one of the damage types (acid, cold, fire, or lightning), you can change one of your Sneak Attack dice with the elemental type. For example, if you absorb a firebolt with your bonus action, you can change one of the 1d6s from your Sneak Attack pool to fire damage.

Mirror the Spell. You can cast the spell you absorbed with your bonus action. You can use this ability a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus and regain expended uses when you finish a long rest. The spell uses your spellcasting ability and if it requires concentration, you must concentrate on it. If the spell requires costly components, you must provide them as well, otherwise you can't ignore material components if there is no cost. If the spell was cast on a higher level than normal, it's counted as the lowest possible level.

Enhance Magical Defenses. You can use your reaction when you make a saving throw against a spell. The spell's echo lets you add 1d6 to the saving throw if you fail.

Improved Cunning Action. The next Cunning Action you take lets you choose two options from the list of available options, but you can't choose the same two options. You can't do so again until you finish a short or long rest. After 9th level, you can use this ability without needing to rest each time you take a Cunning Action.

By the time you reach level 9 in this class, your understanding of the Weave has increased greatly. You have Advantage on saving throws against spells or other magical effects.

In addition, when you hit a creature with an attack roll with a successful Sneak Attack, you can forgo using your Sneak Attack damage dice; if you do so, you can force the creature to make a Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, it can't cast spells or activate magical objects. Additionally, if it was concentrating on a spell, it loses concentration. This effect remains for 1 minute on the creature. At the end of each of its turns, it can repeat the saving throw to be free from the effect. You can use this ability a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus and regain expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Additionally, the absorption's duration increases by 1 minute.

At 13th level, your expertise in harvesting the echo of magic has blossomed to even greater heights. When you absorb an echo of a spell, you have these two options:

Perfect Strike. You don't need to have Advantage against a target to make a Sneak Attack while you have this spell echo. You can't use Sneak Attack if you have Disadvantage on the roll.

Precise Strike. You can instantly expend the echo to grant yourself a bonus on one attack roll you make this turn equal to the spell's level (+1 bonus if it's a cantrip).

You can use these features a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus and regain expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Additionally, the absorption's duration increases by an additional minute, and you can absorb an echo with a free action instead of a bonus action.

When you absorb a spell and cast it, you can use the spell attack bonus or spell save DC of the original caster if it's higher than your spellcasting ability.

In addition, while you have a spell absorbed, you have access to two new reactions: Echo Blast and Echo Shift.

Echo Blast. Each creature within 5 ft. of you must make a Dexterity saving throw against your Spell save DC or take 4d8 force damage, or half as much on a success.

Echo Step. You can teleport to a location within 5 ft. of the origin of the last spell you absorbed echo from. Additionally, the absorption's duration increases by an additional minute.