Rogue: Gambler
Original Source: Legends of Runeterra: Dark Tides of Bilgewater
Card Shark
At 3rd level, you always keep some extra cash on hand for a rainy day. Whenever you take a downtime activity, reduce any required costs equal to your proficiency bonus. This reduced cost is still added to wagers for the Gambling downtime activity.
Tricks Up the Sleeve
Your penchant for games has afforded you the ability to subtly manipulate fortune to your favor. When you choose this archetype at 3rd level, you learn the Guidance cantrip. When you cast this spell, you may count your rogue levels twice when determining the spell's effects.
Wild Card's Gambit
Also at 3rd level, you gain proficiency with one of the following gaming sets: dice set, dragonchess set, or playing card set.
The gaming set you choose grants you a Wild Card’s Gambit, as detailed below. If you are proficient in multiple types of gaming sets, you must choose which gambit to use when you gain this feature. You can change your choice of gambit whenever you gain a level in this class.
- Loaded Dice: You gain a pool of d6s equal to your proficiency bonus. When you make an attack, or when a creature targets you with an attack, you can use your reaction to spend one die from the pool and add or subtract the number rolled from the attack. You can choose to use this feature after the creature makes its roll, but before the DM determines whether the attack roll hits or misses. Starting at 9th level you can spend up to two dice from the pool at once, and starting at 17th level you can spend up to three dice at once. You regain all expended dice from your loaded dice pool when you complete a long rest.
- Dragonchess: Your prowess of the chessboard has made you a skilled tactician on the battlefield. As a bonus action on your turn, you can execute one of the following chess maneuvers. You can use a bonus action in this way a number of times equal to your Proficiency bonus, and regain all uses after a long rest.
- Dragon: Choose a creature you can see within 30 feet of you. The first time that creature makes a successful attack roll before the start of your next turn, they deal extra damage equal to your level in this class.
- Griffon: Choose a creature you can see within 30 feet of you. On its next turn (or until the end of your turn, if you choose yourself), its movement speed is doubled, and its movement does not provoke opportunity attacks.
- Sylph: You and all friendly creatures within 30 feet of you have advantage on Dexterity saving throws until the start of your next turn.
- Playing Cards: You have developed a fighting style based around cartomancy. You have your own deck of enchanted cards, and can make their edges razor-sharp with a flick of your wrist. If you have not yet used your Sneak Attack this turn, you can use your action to take one of these cards and attack a creature within 30 feet with it. The attack roll for this feature uses your Dexterity modifier, and on a hit, it deals slashing damage equal 1d4 + your Dexterity modifier. When you roll for damage, look at the number rolled on the d4. The attack gains a random effect based on the number rolled, as detailed in the Wild Card Suit table below. You can attack using a card in this manner a number of times equal to proficiency bonus, and regain all uses after a long rest.
Table: Wild Card Suit Table
| Damage Die (d4) | Suit |
|---|---|
| 1 | Blade: Roll your Sneak Attack damage and add it to your razor card’s damage. At the start of its next turn, the target takes necrotic damage equal to half the Sneak Attack damage rolled. |
| 2 | Shackle: Until the start of your next turn, the target’s speed is halved. It can’t make more than one attack on its turn while its speed is reduced in this way. |
| 3 | Heart: Roll your Sneak Attack damage and add it to your razor card’s damage. You also immediately regain a number of hit points equal to the half the damage dealt. Any excess hit points regained become temporary hit points. |
| 4 | Wild Ace: This card morphs suits depending on the dealer’s wishes. Choose Blade, Shackle, or Heart. The card then immediately gains the suit’s respective effect. |
Twist of Fate
As in Legends of Runeterra: Dark Tides of Bilgewater except this ability is gained at 9th level instead of 13th.
Shift the Odds
Starting at 9th level, you are acutely aware of how to quit when you’re ahead, vanishing in a flash when the odds begin to turn against you. As a bonus action, you can turn the tides in your favor. Until the end of your turn, you can use the ability from your Wild Card's Gambit once without expending a use. You then disappear with a dramatic flourish and teleport yourself to an unoccupied space that you can see within 120 feet of your original location.
You can use the action from the Playing Cards Gambit immediately before teleporting, and you can use the ability from the Dragonchess Gambit immediately before or after the teleport with the same bonus action as this ability.
Once you have used this ability, you cannot use it again until you have finished a short or long rest.
All In
At 17th level, your mastery over chance encompasses even your own form, allowing you to exist between potential realities. As a bonus action on your turn, you can take on an incorporeal form, during which you gain the following benefits:
- You regain expended dice or uses from your Wild Card’s Gambit feature:
- Your movement speed is doubled.
- You gain resistance to all damage, and are immune to the grappled, paralyzed, stunned, and restrained conditions.
- You can move through objects and creatures as if they were difficult terrain. If you end your turn inside a creature, the creature takes 1d10 force damage and is shunted into an adjacent space within 5 feet of their original location.
This incorporeal state lasts for one minute, or until you are incapacitated. Once you use this feature, you cannot use it again until you complete a long rest.
