Shadow

Summary:

A cunning rogue who mixes stealth and magic. Gains Insight each turn and discounts abilities when attacking with advantage. Strikes from hiding, repositions quickly, and manipulates timing. Subclasses: Black Ash, Caustic Alchemy, Harlequin Mask. More than just the sneaky backstabber. Magical, but still a thief, a rogue, a swashbuckler, assassin, or ambusher.

Heroic Resource: Insight

Gain 1D3 at start of their turn

Gain it when they spend a surge to deal damage

1 insight discount on heroic abilities when they have an edge (advantage); which encourages you to have a rogue play style, flanking and hiding.

“Hesitation is weakness” - lets you take your turn now, and go before an enemy. Not an extra turn, though.

Subclasses:

• College of Black Ash - uses shadow magic; can teleport, including out of danger. Can eventually use ash to do other things like fire damage. Encouraged to be constantly mobile.
• College of Caustic Alchemy - more focused on poisons, explosions, mechanisms. “Coat the blade” gives surges to convert to poison damage. Smoke bomb to hide more easily. Trigger can help get out of harms away. Encourage preparation and hiding.
• College of the Harlequin Mask - a bit “out there”; illusionist class, impersonate enemies and misdirect them. Can appear as harmless animal, or say a specific enemy, and trigger can help to misdirect. Encourage you to be deceitful; a trickster.