Rogue

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Overview & Creation

Rogues devote as much effort to mastering the use of a variety of skills as they do to perfecting their combat abilities, giving them a broad expertise that few other characters can match. Many rogues focus on stealth and deception, while others refine the skills that help them in a dungeon environment, such as climbing, finding and disarming traps, and opening locks.   When it comes to combat, rogues prioritize cunning over brute strength. A rogue would rather make one precise strike, placing it exactly where the attack will hurt the target most, than wear an opponent down with a barrage of attacks. Rogues have an almost supernatural knack for avoiding danger, and a few learn magical tricks to supplement their other abilities.

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Class Features

Expertise

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.  

Sneak Attack

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 the extra damage increases as you gain levels in this class, as shown in the Sneak Attack column of the Rogue table.  

Cunning Action

Starting at 2nd level, your quick thinking and agility allow 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.  

Roguish Archetype

At 3rd level, you choose an archetype that you emulate in the exercise of your rogue abilities: Thief, Assassin, Arcane Trickster or Triple Threat, all detailed at the end of the class description. Your archetype choice grants you features at 3rd level and then again at 9th, 13th and 17th level.  

Ability Score Improvement

When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 10th, 12th, 16th, 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.  

Uncanny Dodge

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.  

Evasion

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.  

Reliable Talent

By 11th level, you have refined your chosen skill 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 as a 10.  

Blindsense

Starting at 14th level, if you are able to hear, you are aware of the location if any hidden or invisible creature within 10 feet of you.  

Slippery Mind

By 15th level, you have acquired greater mental strength. You gain proficiency in Wisdom saving throws.  

Elusive

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.  

Stroke of Luck

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 20. once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

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Starting Equipment

• (a) a rapier or (b) a shortsword
• (a) a shortbow and quiver of 20 arrows or (b) a shortsword
• (a) a burglar’s pack, (b) a dungeoneer’s pack, or (c) an explorer’s pack
• Leather armor, two daggers, and thieves’ tools

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Spellcasting

For Arcane Trickster Only   Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for your wizard spells, since you learn your spells through dedicated study and memorization. You use your Intelligence whenever a spell refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your Intelligence modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a wizard spell you cast and when making an attack roll with one.

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Subclass Options

Rogues have many features in common, including their emphasis on perfecting their skills, their precise and deadly approach to combat, and their increasingly quick reflexes. But different rogues steer those talents in varying directions, embodied by the rogue archetypes. Your choice of archetype is a reflection of your focus— not necessarily an indication of your chosen profession, but a description of your preferred techniques.  

Thief

You hone your skills in the larcenous arts. Burglars, bandits, cutpurses, and other criminals typically follow this archetype, but so do rogues who prefer to think of themselves as professional treasure seekers, explorers, delvers, and investigators. In addition to improving your agility and stealth, you learn skills useful for delving into ancient ruins, reading unfamiliar languages, and using magic items you normally couldn’t employ.  

Assassin

You focus your training on the grim art of death. Those who adhere to this archetype are diverse: hired killers, spies, bounty hunters, and even specially anointed priests trained to exterminate the enemies of their deity. Stealth, poison, and disguise help you eliminate your foes with deadly efficiency.  

Arcane Trickster

Some rogues enhance their fine-honed skills of stealth and agility with magic, learning tricks of enchantment and illusion. These rogues include pickpockets and burglars, but also pranksters, mischief-makers, and a significant number of adventurers.  

Swashbuckler

You focus your training on the art of the blade, relying on speed, elegance, and charm in equal parts. While some warriors are brutes clad in heavy armor, your method of fighting looks almost like a performance. Duelists and pirates typically belong to this archetype.  

Triple Threat

A Triple Threat is so named for their ability to seemingly be anywhere and deal with any foe at once. Stories of triple threats speak about them working together to take down groups of enemies many times larger than themselves, by wielding elemental force against their targets until none remain.

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Warlock

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Class Features

Otherwordly Patron

At 1st level, you have struck a bargain with an otherworldly being of your choice, each of which is detailed further below. Your choice grants you features at 1st level and again at 6th, 10th, and 14th level.   The beings that serve as patrons for warlocks are mighty inhabitants of other planes of existence-not gods, but almost godlike in their power. Various patrons give their warlocks access to different powers and invocations, and expect significant favors in return.   Some patrons collect warlocks, doling out mystic knowledge relatively freely or boasting of their ability to bind mortals to their will. Other patrons bestow their power only grudgingly, and might make a pact with only one warlock. Warlocks who serve the same patron might view each other as allies, siblings, or rivals.  

Eldritch Invocation

In your study of occult lore, you have unearthed eldritch invocations, fragments of forbidden knowledge that imbue you with an abiding magical ability.   At 2nd level, you gain two eldritch invocations of your choice. Your invocation options are detailed at the end of the class description. When you gain certain warlock levels, you gain additional invocations of your choice, as shown in the Invocations Known column of the Warlock table.   Additionally, when you gain a level in this class, you can choose one of the invocations you know and replace it with another invocation that you could learn at that level.   AGONIZING BLAST Prerequisite: eldritch blast cantrip When you cast eldritch blast, add your Charisma modifier to the damage it deals on a hit.   ARMOR OF SHADOWS You can cast mage armor on yourself at will, without expending a spell slot or material components   ASCENDANT STEP Prerequisite: 9th level You can cast levitate on yourself at will, without expending a spell slot or material components.   BEAST SPEECH You can cast speak with animaIs at will, without expending a spell slot.   BEGUILING INFLUENCE You gain proficiency in the Deception and Persuasion skills.   BEWITCHING WHISPERS Prerequisite: 7th level You can cast compulsion once using a warlock spell slot. You can't do so again until you finish a long rest.   BOOK OF ANCIENT SECRETS Prerequisite: Pact of the Tome feature You can now inscribe magical rituals in your Book of Shadows. Choose two 1st-level spells that have the ritual tag from any classes spell list. The spells appear in the book and don't count against the number of spells you know. With your Book of Shadows in hand, you can cast the chosen spells as rituals. You can't cast the spells except as rituals, unless you've learned them by some other means. You can also cast a warlock spell you know as a ritual if it has the ritual tag. On your adventures, you can add other ritual spells to your Book of Shadows. When you find such a spell, you can add it to the book if the spell's level is equal to or less than half your warlock level (rounded up) and if you can spare the time to transcribe the spell. For each level of the spell, the transcription process takes 2 hours and costs 50 gp for the rare inks needed to inscribe it.   CHAINS OF CARCERI Prerequisite: 15th level, Pact of the Chain feature You can cast hold monster at will-targeting a celestial, fiend, or elemental-without expending a spell slot or material components. You must finish a long rest before you can use this invocation on the same creature again.   DEVIL'S SIGHT You can see normally in darkness, both magical and nonmagical, to a distance of 120 feet.   DREADFUL WORD Prerequisite: 7th level You can't do so again until you finish a long rest.   ELDRITCH SIGHT You can cast detect magic at will, without expending a spell slot.   Eldritch Spear Prerequisite: eldritch blast cantrip When you cast eldritch blast, its range is 300 feel.   Eyes of the Rune Keeper You can read all writing.   FIENDISH VIGOR You can cast false life on yourself at will as a 1st-level spell, without expending a spell slot or material components.   GAZE OF TWO MINDS You can use your action to touch a willing humanoid and perceive through its senses until the end of your next turn. As long as the creature is on the same plane of existence as you, you can use your action on subsequent turns to maintain this connection, extending the duration until the end of your next turn. While perceiving through the other creature's senses, you benefit from any special senses possessed by that creature, and you are blinded and deafened to your own surroundings.   LIFE DRINKER Prerequisite: 12th level, Pact of The Blade feature When you hit a creature with your pact weapon, the creature takes extra necrotic damage equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum 1).   MASK OF MANY FACES You can cast disguise self at will, without expending a spell slot   MASTER OF MYRIAD FORMS Prerequisile: 15th level You can cast alter self at will, without expending a spell slot   MINIONS OF CHAOS Prerequisite: 9th level You can cast conjure elemental once using a warIock spell slot. You can't do so again until you finish a long rest.   MIRE THE MIND Prerequisite: 5th level You can cast slow once using a warIock spell slot. You can't do so again until you finish a long rest.   MISTY VISIONS You can cast silent image at wilI, without expending a spell slot or material components.   ONE WITH SHADOWS Prerequisite: 5th level When you are in an area of dim light or darkness, you can use your action to become invisible until you move or take an action or a reaction.   OTHERWORLDLY LEAP Prerequisite: 9th level You can cast jump on yourself at wiII, without expending a spell slot or material components.   REPELLING BLAST Prerequisite: eldritch blast cantrip When you hit a creature with eldritch blast. you can push the creature up to 10 feet away from you in a straight line.   SCULPTOR OF FLESH Prerequisite: 7th level You can cast polymorph once using a warIock spell slot. You can't do so again until you finish a long rest.   SIGN OF ILL OMEN Prerequisite: 5th level You can cast bestow curse once using a warIock spell slot. You can't do so again until you finish a long rest.   THIEF OF FIVE FATES You can cast bane once using a warIock spell slot. You can't do so again until YOII finish a long rest.   THIRSTING BLADE Prerequisite: 5th level, Pact of the Blade feature You can attack with your pact weapon twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on our turn.   VISIONS OF DISTANT REALMS Prerequisite: 15th level You can cast arcane eye at wilI, without expending a spell slot.   VOICE OF THE CHAIN MASTER Prerequisite: Pact of the Chain feature You can communicate telepathically with your familiar and perceive through your familiar's senses as long as you are on the same plane of existence. Additionally, while perceiving through your familiar's senses, you can also speak through your familiar in your own voice, even if your familiar is normally incapable of speech.   WHISPERS OF THE GRAVE Prerequisite: 9th level You can cast speak with dead at wilI, without expending a spell slot.   WITCH SIGHT Prerequisite: 15th level You can see the true form of any shapechanger or creature concealed by illusion or transmutation magic while the creature is within 30 feet of you and within line of sight.  

Pact Boon

At 3rd level, your otherworldly patron bestows a gift upon you for your loyal service. You gain one of the following features of your choice.  

Pact of the Chain

You learn the find familiar spell and can cast it as a ritual. The spell doesn't count against your number of spells known. When you cast the spell, you can choose one of the normal forms for your familiar or one of the following special forms:   Imp, pseudo dragon, quasit, or sprite.   Additionally, when you take the attack action, you can forgo one of your own attacks to allow your familiar to make one attack of its own.  

Pact of the Blade

You can use your action lo create a pact weapon in your empty hand. You can choose the form that this melee weapon lakes each time you create it (see chapter 5 for weapon options). You are proficient with it while you wield it. This weapon counts as magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity lo nonmagical attacks and damage.   Your pact weapon disappears if it is more than 5 feet away from you for 1 minute or more. It also disappears if you use this feature again. if you dismiss the weapon (no action required), or if you die,   You can transform one magic weapon into your pact weapon by performing a special ritual while you hold the weapon. Vou perform the ritual over the course of 1 hour, which can be done during a short rest. Vou can then dismiss the weapon, shunting it into an extradimensional space, and it appears whenever you create your pact weapon thereafter. Vou can't affect an artifact or a sentient weapon in this way. The weapon ceases being your pact weapon if you die, if you perform the l.hour ritual on a different weapon, or if you use a l.hour ritual to break your bond to it. The weapon appears at your feet if it is in the extradimensional space  

Pact of the Tome

Your patron gives you a grimoire called a Book of Shadows. When you gain this feature, choose three cantrips from any class's spelllist. While the book is on your person, you can cast those cantrips at will. They don't count against your number of cantrips known. [f you lose your Book of Shadows, you can perform a l.hour ceremony to receive a replacement from your patrono This ceremony can be performed during a short or long rest, and it destroys the previous book. The book turns to ash when you die.  

Mystic Arcanum

At 11th level, your patron bestows upon you a magical secret called an arcanum. Choose one 6th-level spell from the warlock spell list as this arcanum. You can cast your arcanum spell once without expending a spell slot. You must finish a long rest before you can do so again. At higher level, you gain more warlock spells of your choice that can be cast in this way: one 7th.level spell at 13th level, one 8th.level spell at 15th level, and one 9th-level spell at 17th level. You regain all uses of your Mystic Arcanum when you finish a long rest.  

Eldritch Master

At 20th level, you can draw on your inner reserve of mystical power while entreating your patron to regain expended spell slots. You can spend 1 minute entreating your patron for aid to regain all our expended spell slots from your Pact Magic feature. Once you regain spell slots with this feature, you must finish a long rest before you can do so again.

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Starting Equipment

• (a) a light crossbow and 20 bolts or (b) any simple weapon   • (a) a component pouch or (b) an arcane focus   • (a) a scholar's pack or (b) a dungeoneer's pack   • Leather armor, any simple weapon, and two daggers

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Spellcasting

Cantrips

You know two cantrips of your choice from the warlock spelllisl. You learn additional warlock cantrips of your choice a higher levels, as shown in the Cantrips Known column of the Warlock table.  

Spellcasting

Charisma is your spell casting ability for your warlock spells, so you use your Charisma whenever a spell refers lo your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your Charisma modifier when selling the saving throw DC for a warlock spell you cast and when making an attack roll with one.   Spell save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Charisma modifier   Spell attack modifier= your proficiency bonus + your Charisma modifier  

Spell Slots

The Warlock table shows how many spell slots you have. The table also shows what the level of those slots is; all of your spell slots are the same level. To cast one of your warlock spells of 1st level or higher, you must expend a spell slot. You regain all expended spell slots when you finish a short or long rest. For example, when you are 5th level, you have two 3rd-level spell slots. To cast the 1st-level spell thunderwave, you must spend one of those slots, and you cast it as a 3rd-level spell.  

Spells Known of 1st Level and Higher

At 1st level, you know two Isl-level spells of your choice from the warlock spell list. The Spells Known column of the Warlock table shows when you learn more warlock spells of your choice of 1st level and higher. A spell you choose must be of a level no higher than what's shown in the lable's Slot Level column for your level. When you reach 6th level, for example, you learn a new warlock spell, which can be 1st, 2nd, or 3rd level. Additionally, when you gain a level in this class, you can choose one of the warlock spells you know and replace it with another spell from the warlock spell list, which also must be of a level for which you have spell slots.  

Spellcasting Focus

You can use an arcane focus as a spellcasting focus for your warlock spells.

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Subclass Options

Sworn to the Archfey

Archfey Spells

Spell Level	Spells
1st	faerie fire, sleep
2nd	calm emotions, phantasmal force
3rd	blink, plant growth
4th	dominate beast, greater invisibility
5th	dominate person, seeming

 

Fey Presence

Starting at 1st level, your patron bestows upon you the ability to project the beguiling and fearsome presence of the fey. As an action, you can cause each creature in a 10-foot cube originating from you to make a Wisdom saving throw against your warlock spell save DC. The creatures that fail their saving throws are all charmed or frightened by you (your choice) until the end of your next turn.   Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.  

Misty Escape

Starting at 6th level, you can vanish in a puff of mist in response to harm. When you take damage, you can use your reaction to turn invisible and teleport up to 60 feet to an unoccupied space you can see. You remain invisible until the start of your next turn or until you attack or cast a spell.   Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.  

Beguiling Defense

Beginning at 10th level, your patron teaches you how to turn the mind-affecting magic of your enemies against them. You are immune to being charmed, and when another creature attempts to charm you, you can use your reaction to attempt to turn the charm back on that creature. The creature must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against your warlock spell save DC or be charmed by you for 1 minute or until the creature takes any damage.  

Dark Delirium

Starting at 14th level, you can plunge a creature into an illusory realm. As an action, choose a creature that you can see within 60 feet of YOU.It must make a Wisdom saving throw against your warlock spell save DC. On a failed save, it is charmed or frightened by you (your choice) for 1 minute or until your concentration is broken (as if you are concentrating on a spell). This effect ends early if the creature takes any damage. Until this illusion ends, the creature thinks it is lost in a misty realm, the appearance of which you choose. The creature can see and hear only itself, you, and the illusion. You must finish a short or long rest before you can use this feature again.  

Sworn to the Celestial

Celestial Space

Spell Level	Spells
1st	guiding bolt, cure wounds
2nd	flaming sphere, lesser restoration
3rd	daylight, revivify
4th	guardian of faith, wall of fire
5th	flame strike, greater restoration

 

Bonus Cantrips

At 1st level, you learn the sacred flame and light cantrips. They count as warlock cantrips for you, but they don’t count against your number of cantrips known.  

Radiant Soul

Starting at 6th level, your link to the Celestial allows you to serve as a conduit for radiant energy. You have resistance to radiant damage, and when you cast a spell that deals radiant or fire damage, you can add your Charisma modifier to one radiant or fire damage roll of that spell against one of its targets.  

Celestial Resilience

Starting at 10th level, you gain temporary hit points whenever you finish a short or long rest. These temporary hit points equal your warlock level + your Charisma modifier. Additionally, choose up to five creatures you can see at the end of the rest. Those creatures each gain temporary hit points equal to half your warlock level + your Charisma modifier.  

Searing Vengeance

Starting at 14th level, the radiant energy you channel allows you to resist death. When you have to make a death saving throw at the start of your turn, you can instead spring back to your feet with a burst of radiant energy. You regain hit points equal to half your hit point maximum, and then you stand up if you so choose. Each creature of your choice that is within 30 feet of you takes radiant damage equal to 2d8 + your Charisma modifier, and it is blinded until the end of the current turn.   Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a long rest.  

Sworn to the Fiend

Fiend Spells

Spell Level	Spells
1st	burning hands, command
2nd	blindness/deafness, scorching ray
3rd	fireball, stinking cloud
4th	fire shield, wall of fire
5th	flame strike, hallow

 

Dark One's Blessing

Starting at 1st level, when you reduce a hostile creature to 0 hit points, you gain temporary hit points equal to your Charisma modifier + your warlock level (minimum of 1).  

Dark One's Own Luck

Starting at 6th level, you can call on your patron to alter fate in your favor. When you make an ability check or a saving throw, you can use this feature to add a d10 to your roll. You can do so after seeing the initial roll but before any of the roll's effects occur.   Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.  

Fiendish Resilience

Starting at 10th level, you can choose one damage type when you finish a short or long rest. You gain resistance to that damage type until you choose a different one with this feature. Damage from magical weapons or silver weapons ignores this resistance.  

Hurl Through Hell

Starting at 14th level, when you hit a creature with an attack, you can use this feature to instantly transport the target through the lower planes. The creature disappears and hurtles through a nightmare landscape. At the end of your next turn, the target returns to the space it previously occupied, or the nearest unoccupied space. ]f the target is not a fiend, it takes 1d10 psychic damage as it reels from its horrific experience.   Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.  

Sworn to the Gorgon

Gorgon Spells

Spell Level	Spells
1st	color spray, hideous laughter
2nd	see invisibility, blindness/deafness
3rd	meld into stone, stinking cloud
4th	resilient sphere, stoneskin
5th	geas, cloudkill

 

Stheno's Fury

At 1st level, the withering power of the immortal Gorgons—which corrodes body, spirit, and being—infuses your magic with supernatural toxin. Whenever you cast a spell that deals poison damage, creatures with poison resistance are damaged as if they did not have resistance, and creatures that are immune to poison damage have resistance to it instead.   Additionally, you learn the poison spray cantrip, and you may add your Charisma modifier to damage dealt by poison spray. It counts as a warlock cantrip for you, and does not count against your cantrips known.  

Servants of Euryale

Starting at 6th level, a swarm of poisonous snakes comes to serve you. These are fey creatures that coil around your upper arms and neck, and weave themselves through your hair. While the snakes are with you, you gain blindsense to a range of 10 feet, and have advantage on initiative rolls in rounds for which you are surprised. Also, the snakes around your body give you a fearsome mein, which gives you advantage on intimidate checks, but disadvantage on all other charisma checks.   While perched on your body, the snakes can’t be targeted by any attack or other harmful effect, only you can cast spells on them, they can’t take damage, and they are effectively incapacitated. As an action, you can temporarily dismiss the snakes, which disappear into a pocket dimension to await your use of an action to summon them again.   Additionally, beginning at 6th level, you may apply any invocation thatimpacts the eldritch blast cantrip to the poison spray cantrip instead; however, this ability does not let you add your Charisma modifier multiple times to damage dealt by poison spray.  

Medusa's Consort

At 10th level, you become immune to petrification, and you gain resistance to poison damage.  

Terrible Beauty

At 14th level, you can use your gaze to afflict one creature you can see with flesh to stone—as per the spell, except on a successful saving throw they still take 5d10 poison damage. After you have used this ability, you may not use it again until you have completed a long rest.  

Sworn to the Mad One

Mad One Spells

Spell Level	Spells
1st	dissonant whispers, Tasha's hideous laughter
2nd	detect thoughts, phantasmal force
3rd	clairvoyance, sending
4th	dominate beast, evard's black tentacles
5th	dominate person, telekinesis

 

Awakened Mind

Starting at 1st level, your alien knowledge gives you the ability to touch the minds of other creatures. You can communicate telepathically with any creature you can see within 30 feet of you. You don't need to share a language with the creature for it to understand your telepathic utterances, but the creature must be able to understand at least one language.  

Entropic Ward

At 6th level, you learn to magically ward yourself against attack and to turn an enemy's failed strike into good luck for yourself, When a creature makes an attack roll against you, you can use your reaction to impose disadvantage on that roll. If the attack misses you, your next attack roll against the creature has advantage if you make it before the end of your next turn. Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.  

Thought Shield

Starting at 10th level, your thoughts can't be read by telepathy or other means unless you allow it. You also have resistance to psychic damage, and whenever a creature deals psychic damage to you, that creature takes the same amount of damage that you do.  

Create Thrall

At 14th level, you gain the ability to infect a humanoid's mind with the alien magic of your patron. You can use your action to touch an incapacitated humanoid. That creature is then charmed by you until a remove curse spell is cast on it, the charmed condition is removed from it, or you use this feature again. You can communicate telepathically with the charmed creature as long as the two of you are on the same plane existence.

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