D&D 5E The Scout Rogue - how did it work out?

[auburn2]

I like a few things about it, but not enough to try it out myself. For me it does not seem like it can compete with assassin or swashbuckler as a combat guy.

The extra movement would be good, especially when combined with bonus-dash, but I don't see myself getting to use skirmisher very often the way my group fights. When I am playing my rogue I use ready action a lot and that takes up the reaction.

 

[WayOfTheFourElements]

I also want to apologize for using the term authoritarian. It was late/early in the morning and a less loaded term would have better fit the tone I was intending. I remember yoi detailing some of the characters your group had, and they sounded wonderfully cool...so it peaked my curiosity to find you also prefer to gatekeeper content.

Generally, I'm open to new things. I'm just not open to everything. I have 3-4 sub-classes that don't work for me. I prefer an anthropocentric game. But if someone wants to play someone completely out of left field, I'll usually go for it. Right now, one of my players is playing another character's shadow. It's awesome, but I don't want it to happen in every campaign.

 

[WayOfTheFourElements]

This is true. So a Holocron would pretty much do the same thing.

A what?

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Second - is it viable in a non-wilderness focused campaign?

Sure, none of it's abilities are affected by environment, it plays the same in a city as it does in a forest.

Skill use depends on the DM, but I find Survival is used a lot, in any environment, and Nature is used hardly at all, in any environment.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

A what?

A jedi/sith spellbook.

 

[Weiley31]

A what?

It's a Jedi/Sith artifact that can be used as a source of knowledge, learning, and in the sith's case a method of storing darker techniques and their own will.

 

[WayOfTheFourElements]

It's a Jedi/Sith artifact that can be used as a source of knowledge, learning, and in the sith's case a method of storing darker techniques and their own will.

I must have been asleep during that part of the film.

Do they transform a non-Jedi/sith into jedi/sith?

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I must have been asleep during that part of the film.

Do they transform a non-Jedi/sith into jedi/sith?

Yes - Leia trained with one.

 

[Weiley31]

I must have been asleep during that part of the film.

Do they transform a non-Jedi/sith into jedi/sith?

They are mostly within the older Legends Expanded Universe lore before Disney wiped it out for their new canon.(Although that's where they have done most of their impact in the lore. I believe they did appear in Season 2 of the 3D animated Clone Wars at one point though.) The Wayfinder artifact in Rise of Skywalker should've been a Holocron because its pretty much that in all but name.

Anywho, yes, IF a person could study a Holocron and learn/unlock it's secrets and its contents had information for that, I believe it is entirely possible for somebody to do something like that or at least form some basis of it. And like I said, some Sith have even "lived beyond" their deaths by pretty much imparting their knowledge and will into Holocrons.(Pretty much a perversion of the whole Force Ghost concept). In Knights of The Old Republic 2, one Jedi had a WHOLE FLIPPING ROOM full of Sith Holocrons and would pretty much go in and spend hours meditating in the room in an attempt to try to learn how to fight the Sith. (spoilers: it didn't go so well and said Jedi's fate was implied to not be good when she was locked in said room and left in there). Although it was argued that all that time spent with the Sith Holocrons had corrupted her into a Sith and she just didn't realize it until it was too late.

 

[Weiley31]

Also yes the Scout Rogue Subclass is pretty cool. I've heard people complain though it Rangers better than the actual Ranger itself.