Roguish Archetype: Bolt Thrower

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Rogueish Archetype: Bolt Thrower

Fluff text about bolts of lightning !!!

Level Features
3rd Arc
9th Charged Leap
13th Electric Personality
17th Dischordant Echoes

Arc

Starting when you choose this archetype at 3rd level, you can hurl bolts of magical Lightning.

You gain a new attack option that you can use with the Attack action. This special attack is a ranged attack with a range of 30 feet. You are proficient with it, and you add your Dexterity modifier to its attack and damage rolls. Its damage is Lightning, and its damage die is a d4. You may use sneak attack with this feature if the normal requirements are met. This sneak attack damage is lightning, and you may substitute your normal sneak attack damage for lightning damage as well.

If you gain the Extra Attack feature, this special attack can be used for any of the attacks you make as part of the Attack action.

Additionally, you are resistant to Lightning damage, and you learn the shocking grasp cantrip, which you can cast without verbal or somatic components. You may deal your sneak attack damage if you hit with this cantrip. The damage type is automatically converted to lightning.

Charged Leap

Starting at 9th level, you can momentarily become lightning, instantaneously moving in a straight line up to 60 feet as an action You may pass through enemy creatures during this movement. Each creature in the line must make a Dexterity saving throw. A creature takes lightning damage equal to your sneak attack dice on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

You may use Charged Leap a number of times equal Constitution modifier. You regain all uses when you complete a long rest.

Electric Personality

By 13th level, your body is becoming so infused with lightning that your eyes start to glow faintly. Your hair tends to stand on end, and small bits of fur, thread, or paper cling to you.

You may add your intelligence modifier to any Charisma (Intimidation) checks you make, and your resistance to lightning damage is replaced with Immunity.

As a secondary effect of this, This effect is so potent that your shocking grasp cantrip will be cast automatically whenever you touch another creature, targeting that creature. In combat this effect is suppressed automatically as you are discharging constantly - outside of combat, however you must maintain concentration to avoid inadvertently casting this cantrip.

Internal Battery

At 17th level, you brim with energies barely contained. Your eyes glow bright blue, and the smell of ozone permeates the air around you, and the lightning coursing through your veins provides a number of benefits, as listed below:

  • You are proficient in Initiative rolls.
  • Your movement speed increases by ten feet.
  • Your arc ability range is increased to 100 feet, and your shocking grasp now requires a bonus action rather than an action.
  • Whenever you use your Evasion class feature, if the creature that triggered it is within 30 feet, you may use your Arc ability against them.
  • Whenever you fail a death saving throw, you may reroll it with a bonus to the roll equal to your intelligence modifier.
Artist unknown and used without permission The Silent by Dave Thompson (Alchahest)
 

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