Wild Card

Rogues of the Wild Card variety thrive on the high stakes and random thrill of the game table. Armed with cunning cheats and no small amount of luck, these sly gamblers live and die by their rules, never keen to simply accept the hand fate deals them.

Manipulate Fate

Your penchant for games has afforded you the ability to subtly manipulate fortune to your favor. When you choose this archetype at 3rd level, you learn the Guidance cantrip. Starting at 9th level, it has a range of 30 feet for you, and you can cast it as a bonus action without detection.

Tricks Up the Sleeve

Starting at 3rd level, you develop a knack for picking out the right tools to aid with your games.

With a flick of your wrist, you cause an object you are holding to vanish. The object, which you should be capable of comfortably holding in one hand, is transported to an extra dimensional space.

You can use an action to summon one stored object into your free hand.

Starting at 9th level, you know your artillery of items like the back of your hand. you can now summon an object as a bonus action.

Wild Card’s Gambit

Also at 3rd level, you gain proficiency with the following gaming sets: dragonchess set, or playing card set.

The gaming sets grant you a Wild Card’s Gambit, as detailed below.

• Dragonchess: Your prowess of the chessboard has made you a skilled tactician on the battlefield. As a bonus action on your turn, you can execute one of the following chess maneuvers. You can use a bonus action in this way a number of times equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum of once), and regain all uses after a short or long rest.
  • Dragon: Choose a creature you can see within 30 feet of you. The first time that creature makes a successful attack roll before the start of your next turn, they deal extra damage equal to your level in this class.
  • Griffon: Your movement speed increases by 10 feet, and your movement does not provoke opportunity attacks. These benefits last until the start of your next turn.
  • Sylph: You and all friendly creatures within 5 feet of you have advantage on Dexterity saving throws until the start of your next turn.
•  Playing Cards: You have developed a fighting style based around your card set. You have your own deck of enchanted cards, and can make their edges razor-sharp with a flick of your wrist. If you have not yet used your Sneak Attack this turn, you can use your action to take one of these cards and attack a creature within 30 feet with it. The attack roll for this feature uses your Dexterity modifier, and on a hit, it deals slashing damage equal 1d8 + your Dexterity modifier. When you roll for damage, roll an additional d4 and look at the number rolled on the d4. The attack gains a random effect based on the number rolled, as detailed in the Wild Card Suit table below. You can attack using a card in this manner a number of times equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum of once), and regain all uses after a short or long rest.

Wild Card Suit Table
Damage die (d4)	Suit
1	Blade: Roll your Sneak Attack damage and add it to your razor card’s damage. At the start of its next turn, the target takes additional damage equal to half the Sneak Attack damage rolled.
2	Shackle: Until the start of your next turn, the target’s speed is halved. It can’t make more than one attack on its turn while its speed is reduced in this way.
3	Heart: Roll your Sneak Attack damage and add it to your razor card’s damage. You also immediately regain a number of hit points equal to the half the damage dealt. Any excess hit points regained become temporary hit points.
4	Wild Ace: This card morphs suits depending on the dealer’s wishes. Choose Blade, Shackle, or Heart. The card then immediately gains the suit’s respective effect.

Shifting the Odds

Starting at 9th level, you are acutely aware of how to quit when you’re ahead, vanishing in a flash when the odds begin to turn against you. As a bonus action, you can disappear with a dramatic flourish. Each creature within 10 feet of you must make a Dexterity saving throw (DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Charisma modifier), taking 4d10 force damage on a failed save or half as much on a successful one.

You then teleport yourself to an unoccupied space that you can see within 120 feet of your original location. You can use this ability a number of times equal to your proficiency modifier per short or long rest.

Eye for Deceit

At 13th level, you gain a mastery for detecting deceptions. Whenever you make a Wisdom (insight) check to determine whether a creature is lying, treat a roll of 9 or lower on the d20 as an 10.

Additionally, as an action, you can sense the presence of illusions, shapechangers not in their original form, and other magic designed to deceive the senses within 30 feet of you, provided you aren't blinded or deafened. You sense that an effect is attempting to trick you, but you gain no insight into what is hidden or into its true nature.

Joker Wild

At 17th level, your mastery over chance encompasses even your own form, allowing you to exist between potential realities. As a bonus action on your turn, you can take on an incorporeal form, during which you gain the following benefits:

• You regain expended power for your Wild Card’s Gambit features.
• Your movement speed is doubled.
• You gain resistance to all damage, and are immune to the grappled, paralyzed, stunned, and restrained conditions.
• You can move through objects and creatures as if they were difficult terrain. If you end your turn inside a creature, the creature takes 1d10 force damage and is shunted into an adjacent space within 5 feet of their original location.
• You gain a flying speed equal to your walking speed

This incorporeal state lasts for one minute, or until you are incapacitated. Once you use this feature, you cannot use it again until you complete a long rest.