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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Huntsman57" data-source="post: 6752500" data-attributes="member: 6803721">Recently the first player who wanted to roll a rogue in my 5E game joined us wherein there was already a Battlemaster and a Fire Sorc among others. Everyone is rather high level, and I equipped the rogue with a reasonable number of magical items for his level.While the rogue could hardly fail a skill check, which is overall useful, I came to quickly find that while the class has quite a few abilities that help him avoid damage, he can't truly tank (as one would expect of a rogue) but what surprised me was that his rogue wasn't much of a blaster either, with his damage output, even with sneak attack, falling short of what these other classes in my game were achieving by a fair margin each round.This player didn't choose an assassin of course, and that would of course helped him, but even then the circumstances when one can use the "assassinate" ability don't always present themselves. Perhaps no other class in 5E benefits as much from rolling a crit as the rogue, so my first thought was to consider how a rogue could multiclass to extend his crit range. Naturally, the champion came to mind, but the rogue's sneak attack progression is quite symmetrical, so it felt as though improving my crit threat range to 19-20 but losing 2d6 sneak attack damage from having fewer levels in rogue when I did crit wasn't providing the character with much of a mathematical edge.Any suggestions on other RAW means to extend the Rogue's crit threat range without compromising his sneak attack damage?</blockquote>

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