Rogues

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Skillful ne'er-do-wells who combine wit, dexterity, and occasionally skullduggery, rogues are renowned for infamous deeds.

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Rogue Heroes

Prerequisite: 12 Dexterity
Starting Hit Points: 6 + your Constitution modifier
Hit Die: d6
Languages: You know the Thieves' Cant language.
Proficiencies: You are Adept with Initiative and Trained in Short Bows and Simple and One-handed Finesse Weapons, Light Armor, Buckler Shields, Dodge, and Martial Maneuvers.
Skills: You can select five Skills.

Rogue Features

Backstab

You can spend a hero's surge to make a melee finesse weapon attack with up to two weapons you are wielding against an adjacent enemy that moves away from you. If you attack with only one weapon, this attack has Advantage. If no attack is successful, you do not expend the hero's surge.

Called Shot

Once per turn, you can take a -2 Rank Penalty to a weapon attack. If this attack hits, choose one of the following effects to apply, which ulasts until the end of the target's next turn.

• The target suffers Weakness on its next attack.
• The target suffers Disadvantage on its next attack.
• The target's speed for its next movement is reduced by 5' on a normal, 10' on a major, or 15' on a critical success.

Rogue Fighting

Your skill with finesse weapons makes you a deadly combatant. Choose one of the following options.

Redouble: When you backstab a creature or make a melee finesse weapon attempt against a creature with critical success, you can make another attack against it. This attack can use the same weapon or a second finesse weapon you wield but does not add your Dexterity modifier to its damage. If you use a second finesse weapon for this attack, you can target a different creature.
You can use this feature once per turn per number of odd levels you possess.
Sneak Attack: Once per turn, you can increase your finesse weapon damage by 1d6 when you:

• Backstab a creature.
• Attack a creature with critical success.
• Hit a creature that has yet to act in combat.
• Hit a creature that is unable to defend itself.

This damage increases to 2d6 at level 3, 3d6 at level 5, 4d6 at level 7, and 5d6 at level 9, as defined in The Rogue table.

Sneakiness

When you use the Ready action to strike with an ally's next attack, you can use your ally's success level.

Boon Option: Gain two Skills.

The Rogue

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Level	Benefit	Hero’s Surges	Sneak Attack Damage	Title
1	Rogue Features, Backstab, Called Shot, Rogue Fighting, Sneakiness	4	1d6	Footpad
2	Ace in the Hole, Mobility	5	1d6
3	Boon, Honor Amongst, Rapscallion's Craft	5	2d6	Bravo
4	Rapscallion's Craft Feature	6	2d6
5	Valor	6	3d6
6	Rapscallion's Craft Feature	7	3d6	Proper
7	Boon	7	4d6
8	Rapscallion's Craft Feature	8	4d6	Master
9	Boon	8	5d6
10	Heroism	9	5d6

LEVEL 2 Rogue

Ace in the Hole

You can delay your Called Shot's effect to any point in its duration.

Mobility

As a Hampering Effect, you can trade places with an adjacent ally. In addition, you have Advantage on Dodge attempts against attacks triggered by your movement.

LEVEL 3 Rogue

Honor Amongst

Word of your deeds is whispered through the back alleys. Choose one of the following options.

Infiltrators: Double your Reknown amongst agents working for and against the cause you fight for.
Populi (Swashbucklers only): Double your Reknown.
Riffraff: You can choose to double your Reknown amongst the downtrodden.
Thieves: Double your Reknown amongst members of thieves' guilds.
Boon Option: Gain an additional Honor Amongst option.

Rapscallion's Craft

At 3rd level, your rogue skills increase beyond the mean footpad and you begin to make a name for yourself. Choose a Rapscallion's Craft.

Assassin

Assassins

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You are a student of death, capable of taking down a foe before they even know they've been attacked.

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Prerequisite: 12 Intelligence, Sneak Attack Rogue Fighting feature

Ambush

You gain Reliability on Initiative attempts in the first round of combat.

Boon Option: Gain Reliability on all Initiative attempts.

Calling Card

Select two finesse weapons. You are Adept with these weapons and you increase your Sneak Attack damage die size with them to d10.

Boon Option: Select an additional Calling Card weapon.

Crippling Shot

When you make a Called Shot attack with a Calling Card weapon and hit, you can spend a hero's surge to trigger your Sneak Attack damage and make the Called Shot effect permanent.

A target with more hit points than your maximum can spend an attack to attempt to end the Called Shot effect by resisting your Calling Card weapon with Constitution.

Hide in Plain Sight

You have two fully established identities, which you can spend a minute adjusting your garb to switch between. One of these identities benefits from your Honor Amongst feature when you gain it. If you use a boon to double your Reknown, you can apply that bonus to any or all of your identities.

Boon Option: Forge an additional such identity.

LEVEL 4 Assassin

Poisoner

You can purchase poisons at half their normal cost, or craft them with an alchemy lab for one-quarter their normal cost.

Toxicologist

You gain Advantage on poison defenses.

Uncanny Reaction

While wearing light or no armor, you can spend a hero's surge to do the following:

• Take no damage or ill effect from an attack you successfully dodged or resisted with Dexterity
• Act in a surprise round you normally would've missed
• Attempt to Dodge an attack you were unaware of with Advantage (if your Dodge attempt does not succeed, you do not expend a hero's surge).

LEVEL 6 Assassin

Shadowcraft

Your focus in assassin training adds new weapons to your arsenal of attack and escape. Choose one of the following options.

Skill Mastery: You learn two Ranger Skill Mastery options for two skills you possess. You can spend a hero's surge when you see a Ranger Skill Mastery's trigger occur within 30' to employ it. Boon Option: Learn an additional Ranger Skill Mastery for a skill you possess. Spellcasting: You become Adept in Arcane Magic and know the cantrips and spells of the Abjuration, Divination, Enchantment, or Illusion school up to the number of odd levels you possess. In addition, you gain a number of spell points equal to your level. Each day, you can spend your available spell points to Memorize spells you know, at a cost of one spell point per spell level. You regain spent spell points after taking a long rest.
Each time you gain an odd level, you learn the spells of the next highest spell level in the Arcane schools you have access to.
Boon Options:

• Choose an additional Spycraft school to learn the cantrips of and spells up to the number of odd levels you possess.
• Increase your total spell points by one.

LEVEL 8 Assassin

Deadeye

When you make an attack with your Calling Card weapon, you can sacrifice your Dexterity modifier to damage to gain one of the following effects:

• Make a Called Shot without suffering a rank penalty.
• Ignore Disadvantage from Cover or Concealment.
• Employ a Ranger Skill Mastery as if the trigger had occurred.
• Gain the effects of a cantrip you know.
• Attack the same target with a cantrip you know or a secondary Calling Card weapon you wield using the same success level as the attack.

Ranger Skill Masteries

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Technique	Required Skill	Trigger	Effect
Analyze	Perceive	You start your turn adjacent to your quarry while it is in bright light.	Your next attempt against it on this turn gains reliability. If this reliability is not beneficial, do not expend your hero's surge.
Anticipate	Insight	Your quarry speaks to you.	For the next minute, you can increase the success level of one Initiative or social skill attempt against it by one.
Camouflage	Stealth	You have full cover from all creatures other than your allies and are not in bright light.	You become invisible until you move, take an action, or enter bright light.
Dash	Run	You finish taking a move action.	Move your speed.
Dive Roll	Acrobatics	Your quarry acts against a target.	You tumble up to your speed toward the target.
Fein Death	Perform	You suffer an ill effect.	You fall prone and appear to be dead to all forms of scrutiny for as long as you can hold your breath or until you take another action.
Feint	Deceive	Your attempt against your quarry fails.	Your attempt becomes a major success.
Kickstart	Medical	You move adjacent to a creature reduced to 0 or fewer hit points in the last round.	It regains hit points equal to ¼ of your maximum.
Spring Back	Jump	Your quarry acts against you.	Jump 10'. This movement does not trigger negative effects.
Toughen Up	Endurance	You suffer an ill effect.	For the next minute, you can increase the success level of one attempt against the same effect by one.
Wall Jump	Climb	You move adjacent to a wall.	You move 15' along the wall in any direction, ignoring occupied spaces and negative effects.

Swashbuckler

Swashbucklers

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A canny fencer, you flit between respectable and criminal societies in your search of a life dramatic.

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Prerequisites: 12 Charisma, Redouble Rogue Fighting feature

Parry & Panache

While wearing light or no armor and using a finesse weapon or buckler to Parry Multiple Attacks, you block one additional attack on a limited or better success. In addition, your Redouble Rogue Fighting feature triggers on major successes.

Boon Option: Gain the ability to Parry ranged attacks with finesse weapons as well as a +1 Rank Bonus on buckler attempts to Parry melee attacks.

Swashbuckling Mein

Increase your Hit Dice to d8 and your maximum hit points by 4. Additionally, you become Adept with light blades and Disarm attempts and Trained with Parry.

Boon Option: Gain a +1 rank bonus to Disarm attempts with finesse weapons.

To the Pain

When you attack an enemy or when an enemy deals damage to you, you can spend a hero's surge to gain a +1 Rank Bonus to light blade attempts against it, along with Temporary Hit Points equal to ¼ of your maximum. These Temporary Hit Points and the rank bonus last until you end a turn without interacting with the target.

LEVEL 4 Swashbuckler

Black Card

When an adjacent enemy makes an attack that does not target you, you can spend a hero's surge to attack it with advantage. If you miss with this attack, you do not expend the hero's surge.

Clever Rejoinder

If you target a different creature with a Redouble attack, the attack can trigger Redouble on a normal or better success.

Overconfidence

Increase all Temporary Hit Points you gain by your Charisma modifier. In addition, as a Hampering Effect with a finesse weapon attempt, you can score a mark, such as an initial, on your opponent.

LEVEL 6 Swashbuckler

Duelist

When you have Advantage on a melee finesse weapon attack and both rolls result in a success, double the damage dice for the attack. Alternatively, you can forgo Advantage on such an attack to make an attack with a secondary finesse weapon you wield.

Loveable Rogue

When your DM increases a creature's rapport with you, they increase it two ranks.

LEVEL 8 Swashbuckler

Make Your Own Luck

When you spend a Fortune Die, make a Luck Roll. If you succeed, you do not lose the fortune die.

Boon Option: When you would gain a Fortune Die, gain two instead.

Master Feint

Once per turn as an attack action, you can make an Acrobatics, Deceive, or Sleight of Hand attempt against an enemy. If successful, one attempt against the target before the end of your next turn can utilize the success level of this attempt. In addition, until this benefit is used, you can Black Card and Backstab the target without expending a hero's surge.

Riposte

You no longer sacrifice adding your Dexterity modifier to damage when you use Redouble.

Thief

Thieves

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The iconic rogue, you are a skillful trickster capable of clever exploits and deceitful attacks.

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Cheat

While wearing light or no armor, you can spend a hero's surge to turn the result of a finesse weapon attempt or an expertise or movement attempt in a skill you possess into a normal success, provided it was not a critical failure.

Boon Option: Add the option to cheat on Martial Maneuver defenses.

Desperate Measures

While wearing light or no armor, you can spend a hero's surge to make an attack that hit you hit an ally adjacent to you instead. If the attack hit the ally as well, it becomes a critical hit.

Boon Option: Gain the option to direct the hit against an adjacent enemy other than the attacker, rather than an ally.

Flanker

Your finesse weapon attacks against creatures in melee combat with your allies are Adept

Sneakier Attack

Your Rogue Fighting feature triggers on major successes.

Trapfinding

You gain Reliability on attempts involving traps.

LEVEL 4 Thief

Uncanny Dodge

While wearing light or no armor, you can spend a hero's surge to do the following:

• Take no damage or ill effect from an attack you successfully dodged or resisted with Dexterity
• Take half damage from an attack you didn't have a critical failure defending against
• Attempt to dodge an attack you were unaware of with Advantage. If this attempt does not succeed, you do not expend a hero's surge.

Use Magic

As an action, you can make an Intelligence check to attempt to cast a spell from a magic scroll, use a feature of an unidentified magic item such as a wand or rod, trigger a magical trap, or utilize similar on-activation magic. You can make such an attempt once per day per target unless otherwise noted.

• Failure: The magic is released in an unfortunate fashion
• Limited: Nothing happens
• Normal: You activate the target as someone Trained in its magic
• Major: As normal and you can attempt to do so again today*
• Critical: As normal and you master the target's use*. Going forward, you can utilize it without making Use Magic checks.

*Provided the target's magic is not expended
Boon Option: Gain Advantage on Use Magic attempts.

LEVEL 6 Thief

Trickery

You can spend a hero's surge to employ a Martial Maneuver against an adjacent creature who attacked you or who you attacked, utilizing the success level of your defense or attack for the attempt

LEVEL 8 Thief

Borrowed Expertise

After seeing someone succeed at an expertise, movement, or social skill attempt you are not skilled in, you can make an Intelligence check to imitate the action, even if the skill would normally require training.

Boon Option: Gain a +1 rank bonus on this attempt.

Master Thief

You can spend a hero's surge to steal an Initiative, Deceive, Handle Animal, or Persuade attempt you see a creature within 30' make, giving them your result instead.