Several years ago, I homebrewed a Detective class (with three subclasses) for a friend's campaign. Years later (after both the Inquisitive and Mastermind rogue became official subclasses) I figured I would look back at it to try and correct some of my mistakes I made earlier and play around with new mechanics that I have seen used in new D&D content. Over the past month, I decided to try and rewrite this homebrew class to try and make a unique new martial class that doesn't overlap as much with the roles the rogue subclasses take. I am looking for feedback from anyone interested in looking.
I'm not seeing much that looks detective-like, especially from the main class, and there is a lot of cut & paste from existing features already in the game (telekinesis as a example). The main class seems to be Rogue plus a tweak of Battle Master + a really not subtle push to take all the feats related to Opportunity Attacks.
What are you looking to do that Inquisitive or Mastermind don't, because right now, I'd just play a Inquisitive Rogue with the City Watch background, and call it a day.
I told my friend I was going to play a rouge that didn't steal anything, that's exactly what he was, an Inquisitive Rouge with City Watch Investigator background (Tabaxi love a mystery). Expert Perception, Observant feat at level 4, passive perception 20...
Several years ago, I homebrewed a Detective class (with three subclasses) for a friend's campaign. Years later (after both the Inquisitive and Mastermind rogue became official subclasses) I figured I would look back at it to try and correct some of my mistakes I made earlier and play around with new mechanics that I have seen used in new D&D content. Over the past month, I decided to try and rewrite this homebrew class to try and make a unique new martial class that doesn't overlap as much with the roles the rogue subclasses take. I am looking for feedback from anyone interested in looking.
Detective Class
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I'm not seeing much that looks detective-like, especially from the main class, and there is a lot of cut & paste from existing features already in the game (telekinesis as a example). The main class seems to be Rogue plus a tweak of Battle Master + a really not subtle push to take all the feats related to Opportunity Attacks.
What are you looking to do that Inquisitive or Mastermind don't, because right now, I'd just play a Inquisitive Rogue with the City Watch background, and call it a day.
I told my friend I was going to play a rouge that didn't steal anything, that's exactly what he was, an Inquisitive Rouge with City Watch Investigator background (Tabaxi love a mystery). Expert Perception, Observant feat at level 4, passive perception 20...
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