sayaijin
2020-05-18, 01:55 PM
The recent UA gave us a revision of the Revived Rogue which I thought was a flavorful and mechanical improvement, but it doesn't allow for the class's feature ability until level 9. Below is a rework:
Phantom Rogue:
Many rogues walk a fine line between life and death, risking their own lives and taking the lives of others. While adventuring on that line, some rogues discover a mystical connection to death itself. These rogues take knowledge from the dead and become immersed in negative energy, eventually becoming like ghosts. Thieves’ guilds value them as highly effective information gatherers and spies. Many shadar-kai of the Shadowfell are masters of these macabre techniques, and some are willing to teach this path. In places like Thay (Forgotten Realms) and Karrnath (Eberron), where many necromancers practice their craft, a Phantom can become a wizard’s confidant and right hand. In temples of gods of death, the Phantom works as an agent to track down those who try to cheat death and to recover knowledge that might otherwise be lost to the grave.
How did you discover this grim power? Did you sleep in a graveyard and awaken to your new abilities? Or did you cultivate them in a temple or thieves’ guild dedicated to a god of death?
Tokens of the Departed
3rd-level Phantom feature
When a life ends in your presence, you’re able to snatch a token from the departing soul, a sliver of its life essence that takes physical form. As a reaction when a creature you can see dies within 30 feet of you, you open your free hand and a Tiny trinket appears there, a soul trinket. The DM chooses the trinket’s form or has you roll on the Trinkets table in the Player’s Handbook to determine it.
While the soul trinket is on your person, you have advantage on death saving throws and Constitution saving throws, as your vitality is enhanced by the life essence within the object.You can have a maximum number of soul trinkets equal to your proficiency bonus, and you can’t create one while at your maximum.You can destroy a trinket to gain a skill or tool proficiency that lasts until it is replaced using this feature.
Specter's Blade
3rd-level Phantom feature
You have learned to channel the power of the soul trinkets into a spectral assault. Immediately after you deal your sneak attack damage, you can target a second creature you can see within 30 ft of the first creature. If you destroy a trinket, a phantom duplicate of you attacks the second creature with advantage. On a hit, it deals psychic damage equal to half your sneak attack dice for your level rounded up. Immediately after the attack, the duplicate vanishes.
Taxing Death
9th-level Phantom feature
You have learned to further extract the power of every soul fragment you claim. As a bonus action, you may destroy a trinket to use one of the following effects:
Borrow Experience: Gain advantage on your next attack roll, saving throw, or ability check.
Eyes of the Dead: Name a place the soul has seen in life and if it's the same plane of existence, you receive visual and auditory information as if you were in its space using its senses while concentrating up to ten minutes. A creature with true sight or see invisibility sees a ghostly image of the soul for the duration.
Steal life: gain 2d8 health.
Query Soul: You ask a question of the soul that it must answer truthfully to the best of its knowledge while living.
Ghost Walk
13th-level Phantom feature
You can now phase partially into the realm of the
dead, becoming like a ghost. As a bonus action, you can destroy a trinket to assume a spectral form for 10 minutes. You gain a flying speed of 10 ft in addition to your normal walking speed, you can hover, and attack rolls against you have disadvantage. You can also move through creatures and objects as if they were difficult terrain, but you take 1d10 force damage if you end your turn inside an object. If you end your turn inside a creature, both you and the creature take 1d10 force damage.
Death Knell
17th-level Phantom feature
When you use your Specter's Blade ability, a second duplicate appears and can attack the first, second, or a third targeted creature.
Phantom Rogue:
Many rogues walk a fine line between life and death, risking their own lives and taking the lives of others. While adventuring on that line, some rogues discover a mystical connection to death itself. These rogues take knowledge from the dead and become immersed in negative energy, eventually becoming like ghosts. Thieves’ guilds value them as highly effective information gatherers and spies. Many shadar-kai of the Shadowfell are masters of these macabre techniques, and some are willing to teach this path. In places like Thay (Forgotten Realms) and Karrnath (Eberron), where many necromancers practice their craft, a Phantom can become a wizard’s confidant and right hand. In temples of gods of death, the Phantom works as an agent to track down those who try to cheat death and to recover knowledge that might otherwise be lost to the grave.
How did you discover this grim power? Did you sleep in a graveyard and awaken to your new abilities? Or did you cultivate them in a temple or thieves’ guild dedicated to a god of death?
Tokens of the Departed
3rd-level Phantom feature
When a life ends in your presence, you’re able to snatch a token from the departing soul, a sliver of its life essence that takes physical form. As a reaction when a creature you can see dies within 30 feet of you, you open your free hand and a Tiny trinket appears there, a soul trinket. The DM chooses the trinket’s form or has you roll on the Trinkets table in the Player’s Handbook to determine it.
While the soul trinket is on your person, you have advantage on death saving throws and Constitution saving throws, as your vitality is enhanced by the life essence within the object.You can have a maximum number of soul trinkets equal to your proficiency bonus, and you can’t create one while at your maximum.You can destroy a trinket to gain a skill or tool proficiency that lasts until it is replaced using this feature.
Specter's Blade
3rd-level Phantom feature
You have learned to channel the power of the soul trinkets into a spectral assault. Immediately after you deal your sneak attack damage, you can target a second creature you can see within 30 ft of the first creature. If you destroy a trinket, a phantom duplicate of you attacks the second creature with advantage. On a hit, it deals psychic damage equal to half your sneak attack dice for your level rounded up. Immediately after the attack, the duplicate vanishes.
Taxing Death
9th-level Phantom feature
You have learned to further extract the power of every soul fragment you claim. As a bonus action, you may destroy a trinket to use one of the following effects:
Borrow Experience: Gain advantage on your next attack roll, saving throw, or ability check.
Eyes of the Dead: Name a place the soul has seen in life and if it's the same plane of existence, you receive visual and auditory information as if you were in its space using its senses while concentrating up to ten minutes. A creature with true sight or see invisibility sees a ghostly image of the soul for the duration.
Steal life: gain 2d8 health.
Query Soul: You ask a question of the soul that it must answer truthfully to the best of its knowledge while living.
Ghost Walk
13th-level Phantom feature
You can now phase partially into the realm of the
dead, becoming like a ghost. As a bonus action, you can destroy a trinket to assume a spectral form for 10 minutes. You gain a flying speed of 10 ft in addition to your normal walking speed, you can hover, and attack rolls against you have disadvantage. You can also move through creatures and objects as if they were difficult terrain, but you take 1d10 force damage if you end your turn inside an object. If you end your turn inside a creature, both you and the creature take 1d10 force damage.
Death Knell
17th-level Phantom feature
When you use your Specter's Blade ability, a second duplicate appears and can attack the first, second, or a third targeted creature.