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Message: <blockquote data-quote="StreamOfTheSky" data-source="post: 5735828" data-attributes="member: 35909">Your observations are sound.  Traps are a very unglorious thing to specialize in, and I try to slough off that responsibility to some other schmuck (like a barbarian who can simply "take it") whenever possible when playing a rogue.  I still remember my first rogue, also one of my favorite rogues...  Had a monster search check no one else in the party could have matched on a 20...found a secret area under the floor warded with a super duper powerful/deadly magical trap.  Entire rest of the party went to the other room and "cheered for me" as I debated if I wanted to chance the huge DC and risk gods knows what.  I do, I make it, and those ingrates were so darn quick to come back in and expect an equal cut of the loot I singlehandedly risked my neck for!  Yeah, I learned pretty fast how stupid it is to be the trap monkey...And yes, rogue has a lot of issues in combat.  You can overcome them a lot using that handbook, but no doubt rogue takes a lot of optimization to be capable in melee, and more importantly, survivable.The short list of key things:Staggering Strike feat (C.Adv.)Penetrating Strike (Dungeonscape, replaces trapsense to do half SA damage to anything immune to it)Weapon augment crystals (MIC; greater truedeath and demolition crystals, specifically)There's a lot more that helps greatly, but those are the cornerstones for not sucking or dying.</blockquote>

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