Rogue

The rogue wins fights that were never meant to be fair. Where the fighter trades blow for blow and the barbarian simply outlasts, the rogue looks for the opening — the unguarded flank, the split-second of distraction, the one place a blade will do the most harm — and puts everything into a single devastating strike. They rarely start a fight standing where the enemy expects, and they are almost never standing there when the counterattack arrives.

But the rogue is far more than a knife in the dark. They are the party's master of everything the dungeon doesn't fight you with: locks and traps, lies and disguises, the sheer breadth of skill to talk, climb, sneak, or steal their way past any obstacle. Uncannily hard to pin down and impossible to corner, the rogue is the problem-solver who was three steps ahead the entire time.

Signature Feature · Level 1

Sneak Attack

Once per turn, when you hit with a Finesse or ranged weapon and you have Advantage — or an ally of yours is right beside the target — you deal a burst of extra damage, starting at 1d6 and climbing to a punishing 10d6 as you level.

This is the rogue's whole thesis in one feature: not a stream of blows, but a single, perfectly-placed strike that hurts far more than it has any right to. Everything else the rogue does is in service of landing it.

Class Features

Level	Feature
1st	Expertise, Sneak Attack, Thieves' Cant
2nd	Cunning Action
3rd	Roguish Archetype
5th	Uncanny Dodge
7th	Evasion
20th	Stroke of Luck

1st Level

Expertise

You don't just know your craft — you've mastered it. Choose two of your skill proficiencies; your Proficiency Bonus is doubled for any ability check you make using either. These are the skills you're the best in the room at, and you'll claim more of them as you rise.

1st Level

Thieves' Cant

You know the secret Thieves' Cant — a coded blend of dialect, jargon, and hand-signs used by the underworld to pass hidden messages in plain sight. A few words scratched by a doorway, a phrase dropped in conversation, and you can warn, direct, or recognize others of your kind unnoticed.

2nd Level

Cunning Action

You are quicker than anyone you fight. On each of your turns you can take a Bonus Action to Dash, Disengage, or Hide — darting across the field, slipping free without provoking a blow, or vanishing from sight, all in the same breath as your attack. It is the engine of the rogue's hit-and-run.

3rd Level

Roguish Archetype

You commit to an Archetype that defines your particular talents, gaining features at 3rd, 9th, 13th, and 17th level. Each one bends the rogue's edge in a different direction — arcane trickery, cold-blooded assassination, psychic blades, or peerless thievery. All are gathered below.

5th Level

Uncanny Dodge

You roll with the hits no one else could. When an attacker you can see lands a blow, you can use your Reaction to halve that attack's damage — twisting at the last instant so the dagger grazes where it should have buried, the arrow scores where it should have pierced.

7th Level

Evasion

You slip through danger that would engulf anyone else. When an effect lets you make a Dexterity saving throw for half damage, you instead take no damage on a success and only half on a failure — diving clear of the fireball, the lightning, the collapsing floor, as if you'd known it was coming.

20th Level

Stroke of Luck

Fortune, in the end, simply belongs to you. Once between rests, you can turn a missed attack into a hit, or treat a failed ability check as though you had rolled a natural 20. When everything is on the line, the rogue does not gamble — the rogue decides.

Roguish Archetypes

Sneak Attack

Expertise

Thieves' Cant

Cunning Action

Roguish Archetype

Uncanny Dodge

Evasion

Stroke of Luck

Arcane Trickster

Assassin

Soulknife

Thief

The Wyrdweaver

The Buccaneer