Mad Artist Rogue Subclass
Added 2020-01-01 16:42:12 +0000 UTCHappy new year! I'm breaking in 2020 with my first ever rogue subclass: the mad artist archetype. Mad artists are lunatics who see beauty in death and view killing as some kind of sick performance. This character trope is a personal favourite of mine, and has been around for ages and can be seen in all forms of media (think the Phantom of the Opera or the Joker). Mechanically, this subclass works differently to other roguish archetypes. While other rogues will sneak around in order to fight their opponents, mad artists are usually narcissistic performers who love to be seen, and so I designed these features with this in mind. In practice, this subclass should allow you to contribute to a fight and take advantage of your sneak attack without having to skulk around in the shadows. I'm really happy with this subclass, and really excited about the roleplay potential of it.
On an unrelated note, the one year anniversary of my patreon will be this month! I'm going to be doing a little celebratory post on the day, and if you want to help me with it, I'd appreciate you taking a moment to vote in this poll. Remember, the high quality PDF version of this post is available on the patron dropbox. If you're pledged to me, you can get the link to the dropbox through this post. Hope you all have a great year guys!
v2: Master of the Arts now gives Performance proficiency, Euphoria now scales with Sneak Attack damage, Captive Audience has been completely reworked into an out-of-combat feature, and attacks from the Encore feature no longer have advantage to avoid it being abused.
