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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ECMO3" data-source="post: 9649417" data-attributes="member: 7030563">For most PCs from the Fighter, Monk and Rogue classes I think casting spells is something they do.  So I don't believe this is true in actual play.In the 2024 rules every Rogue I have seen played so far, including both Assasin and Thief, has had either Trustrike or one of the TCE Blade cantrips.  The highest damage option for Rogues in 5E is these spells, especially Truestrike which works at both ranged and in melee.The default Rogue for a powergamer in 2024 is a high-elf Assasin with Truestrike and Elven Accuracy.One of the players we play with even noted that Rogue is a very hard class for a beginner now because it is not intuitive that high intelligence is generally better than high dexterity.Barbarian is the only class I see regularly that usually (more than 50%) has no spells.IME Rogues almost all have spells and over half of Fighters and Monks have them.</blockquote>