Saboteur

Saboteurs will use anything and everything at their disposal to get the job done. Ruthlessly resourceful and alarmingly precise, Saboteurs are born to disrupt the schemes of others. These rogues can be found working for governments, criminal syndicates, or any other organization that would rather see someone else’s plans fail. Just as often, however, Saboteurs can be found working for themselves, using their considerable talents for their own benefit.

Mechanically Inclined

When you choose this archetype at 3rd level you gain proficiency with Tinkerer’s Tools and Alchemist’s Supplies. You also gain Alchemist's Supplies and Tinkerer’s Tools for free - the result of tinkering you’ve done as you’ve prepared for this specialization.

Sabotage

When you choose this Archetype at 3rd level, you learn to craft and use a variety of devices on the fly to help you disrupt your enemies using a combination of precision and ingenuity.

Devices. You prepare the list of devices that are available for you to activate, choosing from the options detailed under "Devices" below. When you do so, choose a number of Devices equal to 2 + your Intelligence modifier (minimum of three devices). This number increases to 3 + your Intelligence modifier at level 13 (minimum of four devices).

You can change your list of prepared devices when you finish a long rest. Preparing a new list of devices requires time spent tinkering with your tools: at least 1 minute per device on your list.

Components. You have 4 components, representing the various gadgetry and alchemical reagents you keep prepared and on your person which you must expend to activate your devices. You regain all expended components during a short or long rest.

You gain an additional component at levels 9 and 17.

Saving Throws. Some of your devices require your target to make a saving throw to resist the device’s effects. The saving throw DC is calculated as follows:

Device save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Intelligence modifier

Alchemical Bolas

As an action you can expend a component to entangle a creature with a specialized bolas. Choose acid, cold, fire, thunder, or poison and a target you can see within 30 feet. Make a ranged weapon attack roll against the target. On a hit the target takes damage of the chosen type equal to your sneak attack damage and must make a Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, the target is knocked prone.

Bladefrost Oil

As a bonus action you can expend a component to coat a weapon with a thin layer of freezing oil. Choose a weapon you're holding. The next time you hit with a weapon attack using the chosen weapon during the next minute, the target must make a Constitution saving throw. On a failed save the target takes cold damage equal to your Intelligence modifier, cannot take reactions until your next turn, and on its next turn it can take an action or a bonus action, but not both.

Blasting Disk

As an action you can expend a component to securely attach a blasting disk to a creature or object within 5 feet of you. As a bonus action you can detonate any number of these disks, causing all creatures within 5 feet of a disk to make a dexterity saving throw. Creatures in the range of any number of exploding disks take thunder damage equal to your intelligence modifier on a failed save, or half as much on a successful save. Creatures unaware of the disks take additional damage equal to your sneak attack damage on a failed save, or half as much on a successful save. All blasting disks you've placed lose their potency when you take a long or short rest. Any creature may spend an action to disable a placed disk, removing it and rendering it inert.

Blinding Powder

When you hit a creature with an attack, you can use a bonus action and expend a component to attempt to temporarily damage the target’s vision. The target makes a Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, the target is blinded until the end of your next turn.

Climbing Slime

As an action you can expend a component to coat the feet of a creature within 5 ft of you with a thick, gooey substance. For the next hour the creature can move up, down, and across vertical surfaces and upside down along ceilings, while leaving its hands free. The target also gains a climbing speed equal to its walking speed.

Crackling Flask

As an action you can expend a component to smash a flask on the ground, releasing a field of distracting but harmless sparks into the air. Choose a point that you can see within 30 feet of you. Sparks fill a 10-ft radius from the chosen point. Creatures in the affected area must immediately make a Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, they lose concentration on any active spells.

Distracting Flare

When you hit with a creature with a melee weapon attack, you can spend a component to mark that creature with a bright, disorienting flare. The next attack made against the target has advantage if it's made before the end of your next turn.

Flask of Grease

As an action you can expend a component to throw a flask of grease. Choose a point that you can see within 30 feet of you. Grease coats the floor in a 5-foot radius around the point until the end of your next turn. The area is considered difficult terrain. Each creature starting its turn, entering, or ending its turn in the area must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or fall prone.

Flour Bomb

As a bonus action, you can expend a component to release a large cloud of flour into the air. Choose a point that you can see within 30 feet of you. A 20-foot radius cloud of flour bursts into the air, coating creatures inside the area. Creatures coated this way cannot benefit from being invisible until they take an action to clean the flour off themselves.

Hindering Venom

When you hit a creature with a weapon attack you can expend a component, injecting venom into the target. The target takes poison damage equal to your Intelligence modifier and must make a Constitution saving throw. On a failed save the target's speed is halved until the end of your next turn and for the duration whenever the target makes an attack roll or saving throw they must roll a d4 and subtract the number rolled from the result.

Psychedelic Toxin

When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can spend a component to inject that target with a psychedelic toxin. The target takes acid damage equal to your Intelligence modifier and must make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, the target is frightened of you until the end of your next turn.

Smoke Bomb

As a bonus action or as part of an attempt to hide, you may expend a component to release a smoke bomb or similar device. Choose a point that you can see within 30 feet of you. A 10-foot radius burst of smoke or similar effect of your own engineering billows around that point. The smoke spreads around corners, and its area is heavily obscured until the end of your next turn.

Sticky Goo

As an action you can expend a component to coat an area in sticky goo. Choose a point that you can see within 30 feet of you. Goo coats the floor in a 10-foot radius puddle around that point until the end of your next turn. The area is considered difficult terrain and when a creature enters the area for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there, it must make a Strength saving throw. On a failed save, their speed is reduced to 0 for the turn.

Thunder Dust

As an action you can expend a component to lay a thin layer of unstable dust across up to four adjacent 5-ft squares. Whenever a creature enters the space or disturbs the dust it emits a loud cracking sound equivalent to a broomstick breaking. The dust is nearly impossible to see when in place, but a creature that spends an action examining the space can an Intelligence saving throw. On a success, the creature determines the nature and location of the dust. The dust loses potency when it is activated or when you complete a short or long rest.

 

Professional Vandal

Starting at 9th level whenever you spend at least 1 minute studying a device or trap, you learn certain information about its construction. You can determine the parts used in its creation, any repairs or maintenance it is in need of, and the quickest way to break it. When making a skill check to disable a device or trap you’ve studied this way you gain advantage on the check.

Always Prepared

At level 13, when you roll initiative and have no components remaining, you regain one component.

Dismantle

By level 17, you’re a master of systematically wearing down your enemies. Whenever you force a creature under the effects of one of your devices to make a saving throw, that creature has disadvantage on that saving throw. Whenever you attack a creature under the effects of one of your devices, your weapon attacks score a critical hit on a 19 or 20.