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#1 jaappleton May 11, 2015 7:37:23	This isn't limited necessarily to your Rogue. Could be a Rogue played by another player. I have an itch to play one, it's a class I've never played in any edition. But I'm curious about it. Rogues, with the exception of Tricksters, are reliant on their own skills and abilities... Being THAT good at what they do. I was hoping to hear some stories of what they've accomplished.
#2 BRJN May 11, 2015 19:55:27	Story To Scare You Off Of Being A Rogue Our HotDQ group had a young woman show up, first-time-ever player, who got the Rogue pre-gen.  Her first night, I shepherded her through a homebrew explain-rules-to-the-new-people combat sequence.  "Run up and hit whoever I'm standing next to.  This will trigger your Sneak Attack and you get to roll more dice / do more damage.  After your attack, move back behind me."  (I'm a Plate-armored Paladin.)  Later that night, we found a treasure chest and I sent her up to open it.  It turned out to be a Mimic; the "chest" stuck out a tongue, licked its chops - Slurp! - and tried to eat her. Next week we return to normal HotDQ plot.  We find the treasure chest below the swampy castle.  Again, I encourage her to open it.  It's trapped.  All three of us in the room failed a Perception check.  The Rogue got a faceful of LSD or something.  Then she lost control of her character (due to rules).  The character ran back down the hallway, and her IRL boyfriend took a shot at her character, knocking her into a lake.  It took me / our group 90 minutes of real time to rescue her from drowning, with the DM running her character all the way. The third week she did not show up, her boyfriend claiming it is because her boss scheduled her to work on GameNight evenings. I hope we can persuade her to come back; I'd like to set her up for a success, instead of getting creamed (again).
#3 BRJN May 11, 2015 20:07:26	Brief Stories To Encourage You To Be A Rogue During one AL session, my MonkX/Rogue1 was being so effective in combat that our Cleric picked me plus the Barbarian and the Fighter when he wanted to cast Bless.   During another AL session, our party Drow Assassin lost some gear when he was swept overboard.  The Druid had found it still on the boat, and pocketed it.  The Drow suspected the Druid was up to something because she failed an IRL Deception check.  So I told the group, "The rest of you hear me say, 'She hid it in a place where she thinks you'll never look for it.'  But you (pointing at the Drow) hear me say in Thieves Cant, 'She stuck it down her shirt.' "  The looks on both persons' faces (and the DM's) was priceless.
#4 FunkySpunk May 12, 2015 18:21:25	BRJN wrote:
#5 FaustianHero May 12, 2015 19:43:01	Wow, way to break the newbie.  What was she supposed to do for 90 minutes while she had no control of her character?   On topic edit:   The art of holding back.   Our party had encountered a bewitched knight.  He was acting all kinds of strange, not allowing us to progress further (despite one of the PCs being a Noble and the knight was in his family's service).  My wood elf rogue snuck off to the side and climbed a tree to hide and observe from stealth while the party tried to reason with him.   The matter came to blows, but I thought to myself "Four of 'em, one of him.  They can take him without me."  So I kept watching the rest of the forest, and readied an action to shoot any new threats.  A round later, a giant floating eyeball comes out of the forest to aid his charmed minion, and gets an Assassination that almost 100-0s him.  Although he hits our sorcerer with some weakness ray, he's summarily dispatched by a cantrip thereafter.   Patience rewards.
#6 transcendantviewer May 12, 2015 22:31:49	In the first 5e game I ever played, our party rogue would help us coordinate into battle strategies, mainly because the player was one of the most tactful in our player group. So, he'd find vantage points and snipe. The best part was, at about level 1-2 in HotDQ, we'd find ourselves in situations where we could ambush groups of enemies, so we'd formulate plans, and for the three or so times this happened, our rogue would come up with the plan of "The cue to charge will be the arrow to his throat." and then every single time we'd begin an ambush, someone would take an arrow to the throat, usually stopping them mid-sentence with a death gurgle, and it made us laugh every time.
#7 draegn May 13, 2015 8:26:18	Playing a CN 1/2 elf thief/assassin our party of "freelancers" entered a dungeon that was full of "raiding" orcs and goblins. My character was there to find a specific gem for her wizard master to use as regents. The party was composed of mostly CN alignments (3 fighters, 2 clerics, 1 mage, 1 illusionist), with a  N druid a CG ranger and another NE thief. The fighters were of the "kill everything in the room type" after 3 rooms of slaughter we finally had a survivor to question. We learned that the orcs and goblins were hired minions for an assassins guild. The guild was currently fighting a war with a group of paladins. We found ourselves in the middle.    I think to myself "Joy, the paladins will assume I am with the guild and the guild most likely will not take kindly to freelancers offing their paid lackeys."   The party decided to vacate the premises. However, on the way out we were met by a flanking group of paladins. I hide, surprised and one shotted two paladin scouts. The party had their wtf moment "We thought you were just a thief".   The main group of paladins including their captain soon came along and after much "We dina du nuthin, it was the orcs that killed your guys" they drafted us into service. Though they kept a watchful eye on us.   Eventually we ended up in a room facing the surviving assassins where upon the paladins enter battle. This split the party. The ranger and one cleric sided with the paladins, the other cleric sided with the assassins, the fighters decided to off whoever came near, the mage and illusionist overturned a table and tried to hide while preparing spells and the druid attempted to end the fight with some spell that would have immobilized everyone.    The paladin captain had his back to the other thief and I.    I persauded the theif to backstab the paladin, "We can do it together and take him down at one time"   As the other thief made his attack, I took a large step backwards letting him take the full brunt of the paladin's wrath. There is no honor amongst theives.   I then gank the druid and watch from concealment everyone except the mage and illusionist who hid in a hut finish each other off.   Master was pleased with his special gem and two new apprentices.   As for the rest of the party either dead, wounded and dying.... well we suppose that the few surviving orcs and goblins took a little revenge.
#8 jaappleton May 13, 2015 8:50:42	.......You caused so much damn chaos. It takes a special group of players to not let that get to them, to understand it's all in-game.