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Player Tips – Adding more Class to your Class – Rogue

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player tipsToday we are going to get sneaky and talk about rogues.  If you missed last weeks article where we added more class to your class Ranger you can check it out here.

So how do you add more to class to your class rogue?  Well other than cleric I find that it is entirely possible that rogues off the next in diverse possibilities.  If you have been playing a while you might see it but you also might not.  Most classes do not have the ability to offer so many possibilities across the alignments other than a difference in personality.

So let me offer up this player tips.  Rogues exist on every side of the law and are your specialist within the D&D worlds.  Now since they all get sneak attack it does not always make sense but you can play these concepts with ease.  You want to exist as law enforcement?  Sure you can go warrior but where are you going to get all you skills from?  You want to go as an explorer, say an Indiana Jones?  He is a perfect fit into the rogue class.

So the next time you are feeling like playing a sneak there is no need to look solely at the petty thief with his only goals being that of wealth.  Look to the broader spectrum.  You can play a character who at the surface looks boring and blends in with society but when it is time to put on the hat and whip fits in there just as perfectly.

For every skill that exists within Dungeons and Dragons there is a rogue who wants that as there first expertise and a reason for it.

Player Tips – Adding More Class to Your Class – Backgrounds

Rogues are diverse and can come from all walks of life.  So when picking your back ground you need to adding more to your classask yourself is the life you are living something that your character picked or was it something forced upon you.  Here are some possible ideas that you can delve right into to mix the Rogue class with any background from the Players Handbook.

Acolyte -Were you a goody-goody that spent too long helping people while bad stuff continued to happen to you?  Did you flee the monastery with a new attitude on life: From now on you put you first?

Charlatan – You spent so long getting one over on other people you feel that there is no challenge to it any more.  Is it time for a change and find a new challenge or is it time to find the area where people are enough of a challenge for you.

Criminal – You now know how they operate perhaps now is the time to take those useful skills and turn them back on those who choose to take advantage of others.  With the law on your side perhaps you have decided to end crime in the city you now call home.

Entertainer – The crowd loves you.  Now that they are properly distracted by your crazy antics will they miss the deception right in front of their face?

Folk Hero – You have that spark.  Something about you is different then everyone else you have ever met.  Is it for a reason or was it just the choices you have made over you life?

Guild Artisan – The love of the craft is in your very veins.  Everything else in your life is merely a roguediversion from that which you truly excel.  Perhaps you are traveling looking for that one thing that will make you a legend in your field.

Hermit – The world is changing.  Something moves outside the notice of everyone else.  You have taken to solitude to try and understand it.  Are you right or wrong?  Have you wasted your life looking for something that might not be or are you the only one who has the answers and is prepared to sacrifice everything to stop it?

Noble – Have you rebelled against your over protective family, sneaking out every night for a romp in the darkness just for the fun of it or is there malice behind your nightly jaunts?

Outlander – The civilized world does not always understand you.  By not interacting with them you have learned to excel in other areas.  The world is your play ground but now the question remains what to do with your new found skills?  Do you use them to better the world or only your place in it?

Sage – Books they are a love of yours.  They could contain knowledge and lessons by ages gone by or meaningless nothing.  The only way to know is to crack them open and see.  But your love is more than just sitting in a library you long to find new books and hidden knowledge.  But do you bring it back for all to see or do you keep it in your own secret library.

Sailor – The wind on your face and the salty spray of the sea is the only life you have ever known. Were you a traveler on a merchant ship that was taken over by pirates, which you joined?  Have you been fighting pirates as long as you can remember?  Or is it just the sea that calls to you and being on dry land feels like a punishment to you?

Soldier – War is never easy.  Even for those who are called to it.  Did you fight in a grand war or did you merely train and never see combat.  Were you from a big city where you were one of hundreds, you face being lost in a crowd or were you one of a dozen men to defend the small town where everyone knows your face?

Urchin – You know all too well the feeling of going to sleep hungry.  Those days are long ago.  Now that you have climbed above that now is the time to make sure that others do not go through the same fate you did.

So there you have it.  Player tips – adding more class to your class – Rogue.  Did I give you some new ideas?  Did I expand your way of playing this class.  I certainly hope so.

Until Next Time, Stay Nerdy!

Player Tips – Adding More Class to Your Class – Rogue

 

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Ted Adams

The nerd is strong in this one. I received my bachelors degree in communication with a specialization in Radio/TV/Film. I have been a table op role player for about 20 years 17 of which with the current group. I have played several itterations of D&D, Mutants and Masterminds 2nd and 3rd editions, Star wars RPG, Shadowrun and World of Darkness. I am an avid fan of books and follow a few authors reading all they write. Favorite author is Jim Butcher I have been an on/off larper for around 15 years even doing a stretch of running my own for a while. I have played a number of Miniature games including Warhammer 40K, Warhammer Fantasy, Heroscape, Mage Knight, Dreamblade and D&D Miniatures. I have practiced with the art of the German long sword with an ARMA group for over 7 years studying the German long sword, sword and buckler, dagger, axe and polearm. By no strecth of the imagination am I an expert but good enough to last longer than the average person if the Zombie apocalypse ever happens. I am an avid fan of board games and dice games with my current favorite being Quarrios.

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