Sapper (5A)

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A sapper is not what is normally considered a rogue at all, they are specialists at siege, urban, and dungeon combat. They are masters of creative destruction, opening new avenues of attack by opening doors, bypassing traps, and breaching walls.

Bonus Proficiencies

When you choose this archetype at 3rd level, you gain proficiency with the heavy crossbow, greataxe, maul, war pick, and with medium armor. You know how to brace tunnels and mines to avoid collapse.

Demolition

At 3rd level you gain the ability to demolish things.

• You can use sneak attack with any melee weapon, not only finesse weapons.
• Add your sneak attack damage to any melee attack against an unattended object.
• When making Strength checks to open, move, or destroy an object or construction, such as a door or wall, roll your sneak attack dice and add that to the result.
• You can use a weapon to disarm a trap using Strength (thief's tools). If the weapon is used in two hands, you gain advantage on the check.
• When you work on tunneling, digging or demolition, you are more effective than other workers. Roll your sneak attack dice, you can do the work of a number of people equal to the result. At 3rd level you are digging a pit that would normally take a man hour to dig. Rolling 5 on your 2d6 of sneak attack damage, you can dig the hole five times as fast, finishing in 12 minutes.

Demolish Magic

At 9th level you can destroy unattended locks, objects, and barriers created or altered by magic, even ones immune to the type of damage you do. Against this attack, such an object has an AC of 12 + spell level. Make an attack and roll for damage, including sneak attack damage. If the damage exceeds 5 times the level of the spell, you dispel the magic. Against magical effects that are not spells, the GM assigns a spell level based on a similar spell effect or on half the challenge rating of the object.

Control Construct

At 13th level, when you make a sneak attack on a construct and inflict any damage, the construct must make an Intelligence saving throw (DC 10 + your Intelligence modifier + your proficiency bonus) or come under your control. It will forget its earlier instructions and instead take instructions from you. The construct becomes friendly to you and your companions, and it obeys your commands. In combat, the construct has its own initiative count. It can move and use its reaction on its own, but the only action it takes on its turn is the Dodge action, unless you take a bonus action on your turn to command it to take another action. That action can be one in its stat block or some other action. If you are incapacitated, the construct will just Dodge.

Pinpoint Weakness

At 17th level you can pinpoint the weakest point in any construction or unattended object. Any hit on such an object is a critical hit. Even on a miss, you still do your sneak attack damage.