Everyone cool; pirates, vandals, and bicycle thieves are all rogues. Your rogue character will probably think they're cool as hell, too.
Hit Points
Hit Dice: 1d8 per rogue level
Hit Points at 1st Level: 8 + your Constitution modifier
Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d8 (or 5) + your Constitution modifier per rogue level after 1st
Starting Proficiencies
Armor: Light armor
Weapons: Simple weapons, pistols, longswords, rapiers, shortswords
Tools: Thieves' tools
Saving Throws: Dexterity, Intelligence
Skills: Choose four from Acrobatics, Athletics, Deception, Insight, Intimidation, Investigation, Perception, Performance, Persuasion, Pilot, Sleight of Hand, and Stealth.
Starting Equipment
- (a) a rapier or (b) a shortsword
- (a) a shortbow and quiver of 20 arrows or (b) a blaster pistol
- (a) a burglar's pack, (b) a dungeoneer's pack, or (c) an explorer's pack
- Leather armor, two daggers, and thieves' tools
The Rogue
Level | Proficiency Bonus | Sneak Attack | Features |
---|---|---|---|
1 | +2 | 1d6 | Expertise, Sneak Attack, Thieves' Cant |
2 | +2 | 1d6 | Cunning Action |
3 | +2 | 2d6 | Fast Hands, Fast Climb |
4 | +2 | 2d6 | Ability Score Improvement |
5 | +3 | 3d6 | Uncanny Dodge |
6 | +3 | 3d6 | Expertise |
7 | +3 | 4d6 | Evasion, Fast Movement |
8 | +3 | 4d6 | Ability Score Improvement |
9 | +4 | 5d6 | Roguish Archetype Feature |
10 | +4 | 5d6 | Ability Score Improvement |
11 | +4 | 6d6 | Reliable Talent |
12 | +4 | 6d6 | Ability Score Improvement |
At 6th level, you can choose two more of your proficiencies (in skills or with thieves' tools) to gain this benefit.
Sneak Attack
Once per turn, you can deal 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.
Thieves' Cant
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.
Cunning Action
Starting at your second level, you can use your Bonus Action to take the Dash, Disengage, or Hide action.
Fast Hands
Starting at 3rd level, you can use the bonus action granted by your Cunning Action to make a Dexterity (Sleight of Hand) check, use your thieves’ tools to disarm a trap or open a lock, or take the Use an Object action.
Fast Climb
When you choose this archetype at 3rd level, you gain the ability to climb faster than normal; climbing no longer costs you extra movement.
In addition, when you make a running jump, the distance you cover increases by a number of feet equal to your Dexterity modifier.
Ability Score Improvement
When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 10th, and 12th 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.
Fast Movement
Starting at 6th level, your speed increases by 10 feet while you aren’t wearing heavy armor.
Evasion
Beginning at 7th level, 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.
Supreme Sneak