#Arcane trickster 5e guide free#

Is there anything wrong with this most-of-a build (particularly the taking of Magic Initiate), and do you have any advice or thoughts about/on the problems I mentioned? I don’t want to two-weapon fight, as it doesn’t work with Booming Blade all that well, and so many of my (future) abilities key off bonus actions. I’m not sold on fighting via either melee or archery, but I think I’ll go melee - Booming Blade and a rapier makes for a decent combination. I'll probably take Arcana as my bonus skill, and I’d planned on taking the background Urban Bounty Hunter - along with Rogue skills that’d come to proficiency in all the Dex skills, all the Cha skills, and Arcana.

#Arcane trickster 5e guide free#

I plan on going straight Rogue (Arcane Trickster), but feel free to talk me out of that. I’d thought about taking Magic Initiate (Wizard) so I’d have a use for my decent Int for the first two levels, and to take Booming Blade (for extra damage on occasion), a utility cantrip, (for utlility, nothing more needs to be said), and Find Familiar, (for that sweet, sweet constant advantage, and therefore constant Sneak Attack). Or perhaps Wis and Cha should be swapped a negative Wis save modifier is nothing to envy, even if I’ll eventually get proficiency. Human as my race, and us using point buy, I settled on 15 (16) 15 (16) 14 8 8 10, putting the pair of 16s and the 14 into Con, Int, and Dex (although I can’t decide which should go where), the 10 into Cha, and the 8s into the Str and Wis.

The build (a Rogue, eventually going into Arcane Trickster), looks somewhat like this: My two fellow players have already created their characters, a (Standard) Human Barbarian, built as the archetypal Barbarian, and a Revised Ranger, intending to go Beastmaster. The power can be used against any target, but creatures that are not subject to critical hits take no extra damage (though they still lose any Dexterity bonus to AC against the attack).Īt 7th level, an arcane trickster can use this ability twice per day.Hello, Giant in the Playground! A friend is beginning a 5e campaign soon, and I’ve created a build I’d like to get some feedback on. The target of an impromptu sneak attack loses any Dexterity bonus to AC, but only against that attack. Impromptu Sneak Attack: Beginning at 3rd level, once per day an arcane trickster can declare one melee or ranged attack he makes to be a sneak attack (the target can be no more than 30 feet distant if the impromptu sneak attack is a ranged attack).

If an arcane trickster gets a sneak attack bonus from another source the bonuses on damage stack. The extra damage dealt increases by +1d6 every other level (2nd, 4th, 6th, 8th, and 10th). Sneak Attack: This is exactly like the rogue ability of the same name. He can make only one ranged legerdemain skill check each day, and only if he has at least 1 rank in the skill being used. Any object to be manipulated must weigh 5 pounds or less.Īn arcane trickster can use ranged legerdemain once per day initially, twice per day upon attaining 5th level, and three times per day at 9th level or higher. Working at a distance increases the normal skill check DC by 5, and an arcane trickster cannot take 10 on this check. Ranged Legerdemain: An arcane trickster can perform one of the following class skills at a range of 30 feet: Disable Device, Open Lock, or Sleight of Hand. If a character had more than one spellcasting class before becoming an arcane trickster, he must decide to which class he adds the new level for purposes of determining spells per day. He does not, however, gain any other benefit a character of that class would have gained, except for an increased effective level of spellcasting. Spells per Day: When a new arcane trickster level is gained, the character gains new spells per day as if he had also gained a level in a spellcasting class he belonged to before adding the prestige class. Weapon and Armor Proficiency: Arcane tricksters gain no proficiency with any weapon or armor.