Rogue (Apath)

Unofficial rules compendium

Perceived as a weak class, the rogue has been spruced up.

Alternate Skill Bonuses

Rogues benefit from having alternate attribute modifiers to all skills they are trained in; choose either one. This ability is free for rogues and available as the Alternate Skill Technique talent to others.

This should allow the rogue to focus more on a few attributes, reducing multi-attribute dependency.

Skill (Subskill)	Normal Key Ability	Alternate Key Ability
Acrobatics	Dex	Str
Appraise	Int	Wis
Bluff	Cha	Int
Climb	Str	Dex
Craft (Smith of any kind)	Int	Str
Craft (Fermenting)	Int	Wis
Craft (Any other)	Int	Dex
Diplomacy	Cha	Wis
Disable Device	Dex	Int
Disguise	Cha	Wis
Escape Artist	Dex	Con
Fly	Dex	Con
Handle Animal	Cha	Wis
Heal	Wis	Int
Intimidate	Cha	Str
Knowledge	Int	Wis
Linguistics	Int	Wis
Perception	Wis	Int
Perform (comedy, dance, keyboard, string)	Cha	Dex
Perform (act, percussion, oratory, wind, sing)	Cha	Con
Profession (courtesan, gambler, innkeeper)	Wis	Cha
Profession (farmer, miner, soldier, woodcutter)	Wis	Str
Profession (other)	Wis	Int
Ride	Dex	Cha
Sense Motive	Wis	Cha
Sleight of Hand	Dex	Cha
Spellcraft	Int	Wis
Stealth	Dex	Con
Survival	Wis	Con
Swim	Str	Con
Use Magic Device	Cha	Int

1. You can't add the same ability score to a particular skill twice. This limits the combinations with effects like the Intimidating Prowess feat.
2. A skill that changes what attribute it is connected to is counted as a skill of the new attribute when making skill checks, but not for other purposes. See Paizo errata. Note that a skill that has a primary key attribute that is Strength, Dexterity, or Constitution suffers from armor check penalties, even if used with another attribute as an alternate key ability. An effect (such as rage) that prevents the use of skills tied to a certain attribute always refers to the original attribute of the skill.
3. Skills with several subskills (Craft, Knowledge, Perform and Profession) have certain subskills with different alternate key abilities. If a specific subskill has a different alternate key ability, you cannot use it with the common alternate key ability.

Rogue Talents

Many rogue talents have been consolidated or modified. The current table can be found here: Rogue Talents.

Rogue's Edge (Ex)

Because all classes get access to Skill Unlocks the rogue's edge class feature from Pathfinder Unchained is revised as follows.

At 5th level, a rogue gains Signature Skill as a bonus feat.

In addition to the normal benefits of Signature Skill, the rogue adds half her class level to checks with that skill. At 10th, 15th, and 20th levels, she chooses an additional skill and gains Signature Skill and half her class level as a bonus with that skill as well. She gains this bonus if she takes the Signature Skill feat with other skills.

She can select a skill to which she already gets to add a bonus based on her level or class abilities (such as Disable Device for a rogue with trapfinding or variants of Danger Sense that add a bonus to skills). Such bonuses do not stack with the bonus from rogue's edge, but doing so removes any conditions on the bonus and increases the bonus if it is currently less than the half the rogue's class level.

Table: Rogue

This is the original unchained rogue table, with alternate skill bonuses at first level.

Level	Base Attack Bonus	Fort Save	Ref Save	Will Save	Special
1st	+0	+0	+2	+0	Alternate skill bonuses, finesse training, sneak attack +1d6, trapfinding
2nd	+1	+0	+3	+0	Evasion, rogue talent
3rd	+2	+1	+3	+1	Danger sense +1, finesse training, sneak attack +2d6
4th	+3	+1	+4	+1	Debilitating injury, rogue talent, uncanny dodge
5th	+3	+1	+4	+1	Rogue's edge, sneak attack +3d6
6th	+4	+2	+5	+2	Danger sense +2, rogue talent
7th	+5	+2	+5	+2	Sneak attack +4d6
8th	+6/+1	+2	+6	+2	Improved uncanny dodge, rogue talent
9th	+6/+1	+3	+6	+3	Danger sense +3, sneak attack +5d6
10th	+7/+2	+3	+7	+3	Advanced talents, rogue talent, rogue's edge
11th	+8/+3	+3	+7	+3	Finesse training, sneak attack +6d6
12th	+9/+4	+4	+8	+4	Danger sense +4, rogue talent
13th	+9/+4	+4	+8	+4	Sneak attack +7d6
14th	+10/+5	+4	+9	+4	Rogue talent
15th	+11/+6/+1	+5	+9	+5	Danger sense +5, rogue's edge, sneak attack +8d6
16th	+12/+7/+2	+5	+10	+5	Rogue talent
17th	+12/+7/+2	+5	+10	+5	Sneak attack +9d6
18th	+13/+8/+3	+6	+11	+6	Danger sense +6, rogue talent
19th	+14/+9/+4	+6	+11	+6	Finesse training, sneak attack +10d6
20th	+15/+10/+5	+6	+12	+6	Master strike, rogue talent, rogue's edge

External Links

• Revised Rogue talents - these are not in play but good inspiration.
• Rogue Eidolon's Guide to Rogues
• More swagger than you're comfortable with - A Guide to the Rogue by kcmorris
• Death from the Shadow A Guide to the Ninja by Jb200 - Ninja are almost-rogues.

External Archetypes

The following Paizo rogue archetypes are still relevant to the unchained rogue:

• Carnivalist Pet rogue
• Chameleon Stealthy
• Counterfeit Mage Magic device user
• Knife Master Knife specialist
• Liberator Escape artist
• Makeshift Scrapper Improvised weapons
• Pirate Scrappy pirate
• Poisoner Poison user (not maker)
• Rake Social interactions
• River Rat Marsh specialist
• Roof Runner
• Sapper Traps and demolition expert
• Scavenger Technology expert
• Scout Skirmisher
• Scroll Scoundrel Adapts to enemy tactics
• Sniper Ranged
• Spy Bluff and poison
• Swindler Dice man
• Thug Intimidator
• Underground Chemist Splash sneak attack
• Vexing Dodger Climbs on larger opponents

Racial Archetypes

• Cat Burglar Catfolk
• Deadly Courtesan Vishkanya
• Eldritch Raider Gillmen
• Flicher Halfling
• Snare Setter Kobold
• Swordmaster Tengu
• Trickster Kitsune

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