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Why are D&D Rogues... Like That?

Pointy Hat

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Rogues in D&D are a staple of TTRPGs. They started as thieves in DnD, but what makes a Rogue a Dungeons and Dragons Rogue today?
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20 Comments

@pointyhatstudios Creator 1 year ago Pinned

Rogue character concept for you to use in your games!!! :) Lmk what you think:
Her name is Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way and she have long ebony black hair (that's how she got her name) with purple streaks and red tips that reaches her mid-back and icy blue eyes like limpid tears and a lot of people tell her she looks like Amy Lee (AN: if u don't know who she is get out of here!). She's not related to Gerard Way but I wish she was because he's a major hottie. She's a vampire but her teeth are straight and white. She has pale white skin. She's also a witch, and she goes to a magic school called Hogwarts in England where she's in the seventh year (She's seventeen). She's a goth (in case you couldn't tell) and she wears mostly black. She loves Hot Topic and she buys all her clothes from there. Phantom Rogue/Pact of the fiend warlock level 20

@BrenGamerYT 1 year ago

Fun fact that society doesn’t want you to know: you CAN dress like a pirate every day. The only thing stopping you is you.

@btg-bp4vl 1 year ago

"Rogues are just dark bards" hits so hard for me becuz i watched a player go half the entire campaign using the face qualities of swashbuckler to play a charismatic bard with a knife without ever needing to learn the actual combat mechanics to back it up

@thedefenestrator2994 1 year ago

My current and first rogue is an old grandma elf who’s nearly 1,000 years old, and she is going on one last walk through a dangerous land with a basket of terrible baked goods. She has lost count of how many grandkids and families she has, doesn’t remember almost any of their names. Her big character arc was centuries ago and she’s just in it for a good time. It’s so so much fun walking through the front door of a bandit camp pretending to be a lost sweet granny, then sabotaging from within.

@mr.calamity8886 1 year ago

I love how the default rogue is almost intended to be edgy, but here's a secret. The edgier the sub/class is, the more I want to make a goofy character out of it. The goofier a sub/class is, the edgier I want to make the character. I took ONE LOOK at phantom rogue and said "Okay but how about instead of the souls of the deceased, it's ONE soul, the soul of an already accomplished thief, teaching an overwhelmed college girl how to be a legendary rogue and she keeps jumping out of her skin whenever he appears to offer advice? Now THAT'S a good character right there.

@hammeroftyr 1 year ago (edited)

Shoutout the Swashbuckler subclass, because nothing's better than taking DnD's edgiest class and turning it into Road to El Dorado.

Edit: just now finished watching the video and saw that he also thinks it's the best subclass. I knew my goat wouldn't let me down.

@bztci 1 year ago

I'm playing a thief Rogue 12 year old kid who, according to him, is extremely edgy and his family was brutally murdered in front of him. The truth? He's the only child of a loving family in Waterdeep who ran away from home to fulfill his edgelord dreams

@misguidedlizard 1 year ago

37:19 "I got four cheeses, i'm lactose intolerant" is the most accurate part of this video

@foryossimodicarbonio9703 1 year ago (edited)

42:50 "That's a very useful insight on the enemy's weaknesses rogue, why don't you back that up with a source?" "The source is THAT I MADE IT THE FUCK UP!"

@samiamrg7 1 year ago

A house rule I’ve seen for the Swashbuckler is the ability to drink potions as a bonus action like they are a drunk pirate who is both so good at drinking and fighting that they can quickly down a potion in the middle of a fight.

@arc4382 1 year ago

Sneak attack is only applied once per turn, even if you attacked twice and hit a different target. You can apply it on someone else's turn, like if you got to take an opportunity attack. Also remember weapon masteries. You can reliably give yourself two attacks if you have a weapon with nick mastery as it is. It's still a way to get sneak attack if your first attempt missed.

@mr.nutmac 1 year ago

Pretty sure this one’s actually 46 minutes my main man

@cpufangobrr9212 1 year ago

8:46 fun fact you may already know! back in AD&D 2e, when there were only four Classes, Bard was in fact a subclass of Rogue (Thief), same as Paladin and Ranger being variations of Fighter (Warrior) and Druids being alts of Clerics (Priest)

@Hufflepufftuff247 1 year ago

The lil wink after "performing"... Swashbuckler Human Familiar, please stop making the cage around my heart look so easy to unlock LOL

@thefrogobjects 5 months ago

26:21 The funniest thing is that those skills come up a ridiculous amount of times in campaigns I'm in due to the amount of bards I play and animals I insist on adopting.

@MayBeSomething 1 year ago

Be careful with names, Pointy Hat. You say "Strategem." I hear "Up, Right, Down, Down, Right, CALLING IN AN EAGLE!!!!!"

@discodragon9441 1 year ago

A 45 minute video and another free subclass is insane dude. It’s clear you put so much work into this and I hope you know how appreciated it is. definitely my favorite D&D channel.

@ancova1183 1 year ago

You are really showing your Spanish pirate roots with that costume. I love it.

@Ekair42 1 year ago

28:15 i think that both the inquisitive and the mastermind were intentionally released together as foil of each other, like a Sherlock vs Moriarty subclass release theme