What if Everyone Plays a Rogue in D&D 5e? 

The All-Rogue party does actually have a neat strategy for mob encounters: Turning aroung and double-dashing the nine hells outta there

I’ve done this before. We called it our Surprise Party.

Imagine this: You are a powerful Lich whose plans keep being foiled by some stealthy organization. To increase your security, you have a pair of powerful undead minions to protect you. Suddenly both undead have been slain and you yourself are nearly killed off. You hear a complaint that they messed up. In a panic you cast your most powerful area of effect spell on the enemy that appeared before you: meteor swarm. As the smoke clears, you see three of the four assailants standing unharmed in the middle of the rubble. Unseen by you, the fourth lands a killing blow.

The Thief with Healer feat is a must have imo

Most beautiful thing about this is that with 4 different rogues, you'll be seeing expertises in the Weird Skills for once. Sure everyone is picking Stealth Expertise (unless your Wood Elf took Wood elf Magic) but you only really need one-or-two pickpockets.

I feel like these all one class videos needs a one shot pairing, they always seem so fun

Did it once, it was loads of fun. The DM's reaction when he realized we basically had a secret language thanks to thieves cant was gold.

The funny thing about heavy armor (and some medium armor) is that it provides disadvantage in stealth, but once rogues get Reliable Talent, disadvantage means very little. So if you can start with medium armor proficiency (gith or dwarf), you can have an 18 AC with stealth checks still being 25 minimum.

I cannot wait until you guys get to the all Artificer "Mad Science" party, just because of how well they could play off of each other. They all fill very common roles and would make for a particularly solid team. Also, just having a party of mad scientist solving their problems with the power of **SCIENCE** is just amazing. I wanted to run an all-Artificer party once (but nobody wanted to =/)

Personally, I think this party doesn't really work unless you have a Thief Rogue with the Healer feat. Having a reliable way to bring up downed allies is essential for preventing a TPK for a martial heavy group and Thief Rogue does it beautifully, including through their ability to cast spell scrolls.

My 4 Rogue Party: Swashbuckler Rogue is the Face, Dex + Charisma Scout Rogue handles the nature-oriented stuff and is just the nimble person in general, probably also has a bow and sharpshooter. Arcane Tricckster rogue is our magic-user, and gets access to an essential heal spell via a feat. (Probably takes several feats for expanded spells and cantrips), as well as the Ritual Caster feat. Soulknife Rogue is never unarmed, sets up the party to succeed with telepathy, and can push the potential of their skills to insane heights with psy knack, so maybe they take some of the highest-stakes skills.

An artifact in the thieves guild that can cast Rary's Telepathic Bond would be cool. It would also set a time limit before the comms breaks down

That is one of the two installments of this series I was waiting for. It's early in China and I'm listening happily to 2 Canadian dudes who explain to me the hobby I started with in the late 80s in Germany. Perfect start of my day.

Thanks dudes! You guys are killing it! Jeez, maybe a D&D vacation is in order? Dudes, Colbs and Tmonk in the Caribbean playing a series of 1 shots on the beach with a different dm each game? Hmmm ❤

I can't believe you didn't talk about Sleep. The arcane trickster having access to Sleep at level 3 absolutely destroys encounters where they're outnumbered by lower CR creatures. 'Oh, you attacked us with 8 goblins, at 7hp apiece thats, hold on 5d8, I rolled a 21, that's three of them asleep. Four vs Five now and we still have three other rogue attacks to go.'

The telepathic feat, earth genasi, and the medic feat can be incredibly useful to such a party.

If you are to succeed in combat against the best of the Jedi, you must have fear, surprise, and intimidation on your side. But if any one element is lacking, it would be best for you to retreat. You must break them before you engage them. Only then will you ensure victory and have your trophy.- Count Dooku. Rules I follow when I play a rogue!

I’ve done this in a party of three and it was really fun. It was like Ocean’s Eleven and sometimes it felt like we were three separate games, all working different angles.

First thought on seeing "All rogue party," and only reinforced as the playstyle approach gets described: "Watch your back Shoot straight Conserve ammo And never, EVER, cut a deal with a dragon" While Shadowrun fulfills a very different fantasy, the vibes that this party brings feel a lot like a 'Runner team. Also, weirdly, I feel like your players who love the all wizard party will love this one, too. Every situation wants an unconventional approach, and this party either has the tools and tricks to pull it off or can and will go get them! Also, yeah, if people are looking for alternate systems for heist-filled goodness, I semi-recommend Shadowrun 5e. It's hard to learn and kinda scuffed so you'll want an experienced GM to learn it, and it's SUPER crunchy, but the setting is fantastic, the integrated skill-based rolls are a load of fun, and the way that character creation works helps inspire really creative, unique, and memorable characters where the fluff and mechanics mix, merge, and mingle in a wonderful way, which is just awesome! ^v^ Also, for statistics nerds, you're rolling a pool of d6 and counting the 5s and 6s, so your rolls tend to not just get higher but also more consistent as you get better at things, which feels nice.

It's interesting how your thoughts went to a heist style campaign right away. My mind went to a hitman style campaign, and I thought Soul knife (telepathy), Assassin (dps), Phantom (chip damage to other targets and skill versatility), and Scout (for better travelling) was a solid party.

Monty is referring to the Boots of Springheel Jak. They were used to both survive the fall escaping from the Imperial Palace, as well as making a high jump to get into the palace. Oblivion was one of my favorite games.

I will say this I think the biggest weakness you addressed is that the party needs to be a well oiled machine which is fine until one or more Nat 1s rear their ugly head. And I think that's where a good DM would need to come into play to allow the players access to those items as early rewards. And even if you don't make them rewards you can use another staple of the genre, black markets to buy items that'd be hard or illegal otherwise.

I wanna suggest multi-class dips for each of these 4 and I totally agree with the subclass choices. Arcane trickster - dip divination wizard for a familiar and portent Mastermind - dip cleric for extra support Swashbuckler - Dip battlemaster or hexblade to make them better at being the melee combatant. Soul knife - aberrant mind sorcerer to double down on the psionics

This sounds terrifying, a party that just cannot fail any skill check XD

You need a mountain dwarf strength rogue who can hold people down while the rogues pound on them, they could be soul knife, or another subclass, but sometimes you just need brute strength as a solution and you really aren't leaving much behind with that, they can get medium armor so you still want an 14 dex, but you can dump wisdom and int heavily, it's thematic anyway. :D

Yes! Soul Knife is just SO good! I had a TON of fun playing one!

Wow! this one really hit it out of the park. More than any of the others, I so want you guys to make this party!

I was in a legitimate "Oops all Rogue" party like five or six years ago and it was extremely memorable. Our DM had said that he had run all one class games before, so it wasn't a big deal for him... but one of the most memorable moments in the game was that when combat hit and we excitedly rolled initiative every one of us scattered... and then hit and ran our way to a very successful couple of rounds. The ability of the rogue to uniquely navigate a battlefield with bonus action disengage or a judicious use of the mobile feat (I was the one playing the "mobile" character) makes it very much feel like a game of whack a mole for the DM. It was almost immediately useless for the DM to even try and construct a battlemap as half of us where off of it with in the first round or so. It was a great time but yes, it's very much a situation where you can never be prepared enough for it and a bad roll can really derail you. We ended up TPKing which was the first time I ever experienced it as a player, because one of the other PCs kept getting nat 1s. We didn't make it to Reliable Talent levels but it would have been a lot stronger if we had had a bard or someone who had the ability to get us up from down without having to sacrifice a turn and a half to get to someone to make them drink a potion. When combat goes south its like dominos even if you get the line to stop falling, you have your work cut out for you putting it all back together. But I will tell you this: It was EXTREMELY enjoyable even the TPK no one walked out with any hard feelings. And it was where I fell in love with the "Oops all (one class)" concept. I would LOVE to do one with Clerics. That makes me like salivate with how busted that would have to be.

I feel like in the cases of full martial class parties, you have to account for setting stanards and other player options. If my friends and I were to play such a party in the Eberron setting, in Sharn, I imagine our Face would choose to play a changeling, the arcane trickster would probably opt for the Jorasco halfling subrace to add some healing spells, and there would probably also be a thief due to how common magic items are.

Combat feels like it would be exceptionally fun because of how dynamic it would be. Rogues have exceptional movement abilities and are at their best when they are tag team ganking a single enemy. It would almost be like a dance, having one rogue dive in to finish off an enemy tying up the second rogue to allow him to move and assist the third. Knowing how to work the rolled initiative into this dance would be tricky, but it would be the most dynamic combat you have.

I just thought of another advantage for a soulknife: they can enter an area or situation "unarmed" (like either a fancy party or a tense negotiation) and not be caught off-guard if things go south

Super loved you both talking about my favorite class. Great series. I would like to present for consideration my theoretical all rogue party. The Conman: SoulKnife Lizardfolk with a high charisma and focusing on face skills. Take the Inspiring Leader feat. This character has a great synergy between psy blades and Natural Armor, they can infiltrate any event with nothing suspicious on them and have the SoulKnife abilities to survive and escape if things go south. The Muscle: Mountain Dwarf Mastermind, has high strength, moderate dexterity for medium armor and takes the Tavern Brawler feat and maybe tough. Gets up close and personal, providing sneak attack opportunities and stabbing with a shiv. (Improvised Weapon) Takes care of key strength challenges, has dark vision and I would take Expertise in Insight and support the Conman by feeding them telepathically information about the mark. Also swap a Dwarf weapon proficiency out for nets. The Sneak: Gnome Thieve with wisdom as a secondary stat, expertise in Stealth and Perception, then takes Healer feat as soon as possible and later Skulker. This is your medic keeping everyone alive, this is a natural improviser using magic items and Fast Hands to unexpectedly turn the situation around, they are your eyes and ears keeping anyone from sneaking up on the group, but beyond that they can be a solo infiltrator when necessary. Between dark vision, Gnomish Cunning, perception and stealth, they can survive a lot of narrow escapes with only their street smarts. The Arcanist: LightFoot Halfling Arcane Trickster. This is your mini wizard, your utility and the one who bends the rules and can step in to fill anyone else’s role in a brief burst of magical potential. High intelligence and I would recommend Thieves Tools and Sleight Of Hand to synergize with Legerdemain, later take some knowledge expertise skills. Take Ritual Caster to round out utility and I would later take Sentinel actually. (It can mesh with Mirror image and I like the idea of going in to support the muscle sometimes) Magical ambush works great with Haflings ability to hide behind medium sized teammates. Also, once everyone gets BlindSight, pick up the darkness spell to and enjoy. ❤❤❤ I love this rag muffin team of scoundrels

I absolutely agree with this party make-up. As soon as I saw the title of the video I knew exactly which four archetypes the Dungeon Dudes would pick. With clever choices of lineages you can add quite a bit to the party and help make up for some of the weaknesses. Specifically, I would go with the following: Mastermind: Wood Elf. As the member of the party with the highest Wisdom, you'll probably want to be proficient in Survival, and Wood Elf synergizes well with the outdoorsy feel that you'll probably go for. At Level 4 pick up the Athlete feat. With proficiency in Longbow, you'll probably want to stay away from the front line. Athlete lets you climb to a safe location where melee enemies can't get to you, lie prone so enemies have disadvantage on their ranged attacks against you, then get back up using only the bonus 5 feet of movement your Wood Elf heritage gives you. Just be sure to stay within 30 feet of an enemy (and hope they can't climb) so you can use your Master of Tactics. Swashbuckler: Half Elf. Gain Booming Blade from High Elf Heritage. This gives you the option to run in, sneak attack the enemy and at the same time lock them down with Booming Blade, then run away. You might not use it on every attack because you sacrifice the ability to attack with an off-hand weapon, but when it's more advantageous to run away than to stay, it's always good to make the enemy reluctant to chase you. Alternately go with Kobold (MMotM) as your lineage, which also lets you get Booming Blade. Arcane Trickster: Eladrin. (MMotM) Add teleportation to your bag of tricks. If you always have Spring as your season, you can "hand off" the teleportation to your allies if needed. At Level 4 pick up Elven Accuracy. This makes you the go-to for the Mastermind's Master of Tactics ability. You'll also have the ability to swap out tool and weapon proficiencies each day, to give you a little more utility outside combat. Soul Knife: Owlin. You're the best ranged attacker in the party (you can attack twice per round if needed and you outrange the Mastermind if they want to use Master of Tactics), so having flight gives you the ability to find a perch out of reach of the enemies. At Level 4, pick up the Skill Expert feat to gain an extra skill proficiency and expertise. You want as many skill proficiencies as possible to make best use of your psychic dice. Alternately go with Tabaxi as your lineage, which gives you an extra proficiency above the Owlin and a burst of speed when needed, but you downgrade your flight to just a climbing speed. Note that all the races above get Darkvision, so that's one less problem to worry about.

This sounds like an S Tier campaign in terms of strategic fun. With the right DM, this could be absolutely legendary. ~_~

The Thief Rogue with Healer feat can probably help te survivability problem in this party

I'm excited for your thoughts on an all fighters party. I'm going through BG3 with four dwarf fighters and it's so fun just carving through each encounter

Don't forget the Phantom Rogue can walk through walls, and even hide in them temporarily (but it hurts)

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Not allowing any multiclassing is understandable, since it would make every video in this series take twice as long to make with all the possibilities to consider, but also severely hampers the powers of single-class parties in most cases. Here’s my character ideas for a rogue-only adventuring party that *does* allow multiclassing: - Swashbuckler/lvl 1 Hexblade (or lvl 3 w/ revised rules) - Arcane Trickster/lvl 3 Armorer - Assassin/lvl 5 Gloomstalker - Mastermind/lvl 3 College of Whispers - Thief/lvl 5 Alchemist - Inquisitive/Blood Hunter (idk about subclass or level I haven’t played a Blood Hunter) - Phantom/lvl 5 Way of the Long Death - Scout/lvl 5 Hunter or Beast Master - Soulknife/lvl 5 Psi Warrior

A campaign based on the game Theif where everyone is a different Subclass of Rogue. I think that would be so cool

Me, a 5e DM of several years, have been planning an All Rogue Campaing for my players, and man is it gonna be a blast. My players are hyped too. This will indeed be a city-focussed-campaign in Waterdeep and Skull Port. These characters are not out to save the world. This is about turf war and flaunting their newly aquired wealth, avoiding rival gangs murder attempts, tipping off the "Police" about other gangs activities so they get in trouble, avoiding the same happening to them, raiding other gangs hideouts & vaults etc. Occasionally travelling to other cities to carry out a burglary or even an assassination. At higher levels they sneak into all kinds of monsters lairs to plunder, leaving a trail leading to another powerful monsters lair just to have them fight it out. They will be a part of a Thieves guild and have a guild leader sending them out on tuff like that. It's gonna be so much fun to see this. But this will be a short and fast campaing where they level up after every session, then back to the original "Main" campaing.

I started this video right when I left from the airport and right when I pulled into my drive way you guys were doing the outro. How perfect.

Alright pre-video team; Arcane Trickster for magic utility, Thief for non-magical utility and maybe doing something for support? Mastermind for support and social, and then either scout or Swashbuckler for front lining or skirmishing (so diverse I know)

This series is great and i love how indepth you go with these videos 👏🏻

Next PC for me is going to be a Plasmoid, Soul Knife. I cant wait.

"What if Everyone Plays a Warlock" is next, right Dudes? Enjoyed this a lot. Keep on keepin' on, dudes!

I think the Eldritch Adept feat is awesome for this party. Since then you can get some really nice abilities, like at will detect magic, at will disguise self, reading all languages or even at will speak with animals. Additionally it is only a weak party in a traditional campaign. If you just play a standard module yes, clerics and druids are just better as an all 1 class party. But if you're playing with a DM that is willing to go with it, it can be absolute S tier. In fact if I would run a campaign like that I would probably have pretty low magic setting, or something like Ebberon, which has a ton of magic, but it's also available to almost everyone through magic items, and high lvl magic is still extremely rare to basically none existant. But I think this kind of party is the way you can bring a dishonered like setting to life for example eventhough it's D&D or even something like Shadowrun without too much difficulty. I probably wouldn't put a single high lvl caster in the whole campaign. Below lvl 11 you have a completely different game than above it though, since reliable talent completely changes the game. A perfect mission is just basically impossible with something as swingy as a D20 with the frequency you roll it. Something like expertise just isn't enough to make a lvl 3 rogue party reliably sneak in for example. But that doesn't mean it wouldn't be fun, just different.

Excellent content guys. I could definitely use a boost in your audio, though. I have to frequently turn the volume up and down to account for the drastic volume range. A bit of compression could fix that.

This sounds like so much fun! I can imagine a group based on thieves of legend. Like Bonnie and Clyde. It could be Bonny the bagman and Clyde the cleaver. Also I like having no actual healer, because it ups the stakes of a heist, while opening up the campaign to alternate solutions. Like having an "under base" with a hospital you can recover in, making extracting your fallen friend from a situation important. Decisions have more weight. Do you pop that limited store of health pots now or later? Do you keep that spell scroll or turn it over? Also heist's could straight up have "pay grades" with a decision. Do you keep the magic gear you stole for your gang or turn it over to a client for crypto? And if you did the job well, maybe there is bonus pay or faction benefits. This makes prep for future heists more meaningful and encourages teamwork on the fly.

The thief is your medic with the fast hands feature, and the healer feats, they get action sneak attack with bonus action potions and healers kit.

An all Rogue Party: 1) Count your party size. Record. 2) Roll a matching die, rounding up. (4: 1d4, 5: 1d6, 6: 1d6) 3) The result of the roll is *how many party members spell it "ROUGE."*

The old Thieves' Guild RPG (Gamelords) was fun. Essentially a system in which Thief was the only class available. There were a whole bunch of sourcebooks and a city setting (The Free City of Haven). Characters had 12 abilities which split the standard 6 into halfs, so that Dexterity became Agility and Manual Dexterity, for example. The most transferable part of the system was the Skills, which I used for a while with a 1E DnD game. Characters could chose from a library of skill proficiencies, each of which had a proficiency level from (I think) 1-4. Memorable examples were Level 1 Horsemanship - "Has sat on a horse", and Level 1 Numeracy - knows the exchange rate from Coper to Silver to Gold - you better have that one!

One of my favorite 2nd edition short campaigns I did was 4 rogues in a big city that had to figure out a heist. Love single class parties because everyone can build they character completely different but still be on the same wavelength, it’s pretty neat!

I've been waiting for this one. My currently party is 3/4 Rogue's and it's been so much fun

I still think you should do a consideration of races that could enhance the party. For example, I think earth genasi would be incredible for the swashbuckler. The party gets Pass without trace, and the swashbuckler can get pb turns of bonus action blade ward (and aren't slowed by difficult terrain).

Ive never been in an all rogue game, but I have run a 1 on 1 side game for my party's rogue. Probably one of the best sessions ive ever run. The great thing about it was that instead of throwing in the occasional thing that lets a player shine, it was always things that let them shine. He got to infiltrate the seedy underbelly of the town and locate a secret thieves guild. Lots of troubles and hijinks ensued. Single class parties would be great from a DM perspective because you can tailor the game to fit one playstyle, rather than a bunch.

I agree that this is a party who should (and can) cut and run if a battle doesn’t look like an easy win. Which I also think would be super fun to play. However there is a neat optional tule in the DMG which could help with mob situations, Cleave. If you reduce an enemy from full health to zero in a single attack, you can transfer the remaining damage to another enemy within range. And if that reduces the new target from full health to zero, repeat. 👍🏼💀💀💀

I just wish there was a strength-based rogue class like in 4e, it would be awesome to have a Muscle

From a flavor / campaign point of view, there is another classic example: Robin Hood and his Merry Men. Hiding out in the woods, any number of heists against the Sherriff of Nottingham and his cronies - totally rogue flavor!

Finally got around to listening to the “all…party” episodes. Really loving the idea! Camdyn, my Changeling, Rogue-Soulknife is FUN to play! He is a “daggers-only” character, who’s proficient with poisons.

I played a party where I was a bard and the one other player was a druid. Every single part of the campaign we were able to stealth through it. The campaign was supposed to be longer but we only ended up having a single combat and finished the entire campaign in seven sessions. We did a stealth speedrun haha. I DO sort of feel bad for the DM because he had some interesting encounters planned, but we were just like "okay, its invisible rat time."

I am only 3 minutes in but my first thought was build a Dwarven (for armor) thief rogue & pick-up the Healer feat. Later add the Chef feat, it means your healer can now heal 1 hit point to recover someone from going down as a bonus action using a healer's kit & once/rest (might be long-rest) heal 1d6+the-target's-level as an action using a healer's kit. When you pick-up the Chef feat you can then hand out temporary hit points. Inspiring leader might be good too for the temp hit points, but that would require investment in CHA that you might not be interested in.

Scout might be an option too. 2 more expertise and 13th level feature is an easy source of advantage first round. Oh, and what about an all kobold party for this? Draconic cry for lots of advantage, and kobold legacy to get everyone green flame blade (except soul knife who takes friends). All of a sudden crowds aren't as much of an issue. Also you could totally do the 3 kobolds in a trench coat thing

A Feat I would consider would also be Eldritch Adept. Rogues do have that extra ASI/Feat at lvl10 which I would give consideration towards that Feat. Even with just one Invocation, Eldritch Sight gives Detect Magic all the time, Mask of Many Faces gives unlimited Disguise Self, heck even Devil's Sight fixes the 1 guy who didn't take a race with Darkvision. Yes the options are limited for non-Warlocks, but they are still strong

Currently playing an all rogue campaign and it’s incredibly fun! We have yet to have a combat encounter but the amount of shenanigans is off the charts.

We have done a one shot (well it lasted 2 to 3 sessions) like this where we all played rouges. It was a 5e conversion of the 1e module L2 The Assassin’s Knot.

I think a Thief would bring a lot to the group too! Fast Hands letting them use items/thieves tools with a bonus action means they can get really creative with item use or unlocking things in a hurry. Really helps since items are the best option for AoE they get for mobs, so just scattering ball bearings/caltrops behind as the gang runs away and fires arrows would help a lot. Or throwing flour to reveal invisible objects, throwing or setting explosives/traps with a bonus action, and if they take the Healer feat they can become the combat medic too! 1d6+4+Target's Max Hit Dice HP heal with a bonus action is really nice, and healer kits to do it with are super cheap (5 GP for 10 uses). Makes them into this Macguyver/Combat Medic/Getaway Specialist mix, and you can throw the extra stats anywhere you want (maybe Strength to carry more/jump further?).

When our normal DM needed a break from DMing, I volunteered to run a shorter side campaign with different characters for a bit; four out of the six players ended up wanting to be a Rogue so we all just ran with it. Established that they’d all been scooped together by the bard (the prior DM’s character) who wanted to turn their otherwise directionless edginess into something that could do some good in the world. The missions they undertook were often a bit sketchier than what the main party did but gave the players a chance to be sneaker and more creative with their methods and tactics which everyone enjoyed. They were fun side missions and we still occasionally go back to our little band of marauders, but I don’t think I could run that party as a full campaign, couldn’t keep coming up with elaborate scenarios fast enough :D

I think it would be a fun collaborative session between 2 groups of rogues trying to steal the same thing, but only the 2 gms can talk to talk to each other. Party goes for item 4, but its gone and the guards are on guard because the other team already stole it, now they have to find another way to continue the heist, etc

Are these videos in a playlist together? Im trying to make sure i havent missed one before. I love this series.

how to bump magical support on a rogue: play arcane trickster, and play a dragonmarked race to expand the spell list, and take feats that give spells.

For low level games, color spray and sleep are still effective and accessible by the arcane trickster. At mid levels they can get blur and mirror image to buffer themselves further. They can also take darkness and silence. As for dealing with mobs, that's what bombs, fireflasks, oil, caltrops/ball bearings are for. You don't need to kill large groups, just slow them down enough for you to pick them off 2 or 3 at a time.

I played an all-rogue mini-campaign in my earlier years with D&D. Some great memories of shenanigans from that one. Funnily enough, our party was a Mastermind, a Swashbuckler, and an Arcane Trickster.

Here from Treantmonk’s new video. The first time I ever DM’d was for a group of 3 friends who all wanted to be Rogues. Forced me to get creative with encounter building, but it was a lot of fun

You could easily do a party of rogues… in the right campaign. Survival horror? Waves of enemies? Probably not. War of attrition? Social intrigue? Anything stealthy? Absolutely. You’ve got- without even including feats- magic, multiple expertises, and almost nothing is on a per-short rest or per-long rest timer (sneak attack, your bonuses, surprise attack, are all just by-default options).

(Before Watching) My choice of subclasses would be: -Swashbuckler: This is the party face and closest thing to a frontline a rogue can be since it can impose disadvantage on a target. -Arcane Trickster: You need spells, he has spells, and invisible mage hand shennanigans are good to have -Soulknife: Baked-in multi-target damage with their bonus attack psychic blade throw, telepathey for the whole party, and a bunch of other psychic goodies -Scout or Phantom: These are the skill monkey-est skill monkeys to plug up holes in the party. Take Scout if you wanna be extra monkey for exploration, take Phantom if you need more AoE damage.

I feel like in this set up ancestry is a big big consideration assuming Tasha's for stat distribution, top tier picks being: Changling, Hexblood, Dhampir, Plasmoid, and Halfling (Mark of healing if allowed and even if not halfling luck on this razors edge party? yes please!). Two flying ones to keep in mind are fairy and owlin: owlin gets darkvison where fairy doesn't, but fairy gets some useful spells. Its also worth noting with these (or the faster Aarakocra if you play with that version) both Dhampir and Hexblood can be put over those and retain the fly speed. and of course Goliath for 'the big guy' trope fulfillers

Druids next please. I've already played an all-druid game and I want to hear your take on it.

I have been looking forward to this one since you started this series.

This plus a top to bottom run through of Keys to the Golden Vault consecutively and getting rewarded a sweet sweet magical item at the end of each quest

It really sounds funny, i can imagine making a one-shot for my friends with this. The only thing i would change is switching the mastermind out for a inquisitiv. Yes, he is more of an inspector kind of rogue but exactly this part fits very good for being a scout.

I've done an all Rogue party a couple times over the years. Two stand out as exceptionally memorable. All Kobold Rogues was non-stop shenanigans and a lot of assassinations. All Changeling Rogues is completely different, and constantly infiltrating social situations and manipulating politics.

Is there a Canadian link for the dice mentioned in the video? Would love to order some for my playets for Christmas

I think what this video shows is just how well the rogue, and its subclasses, play mechanically into the fantasy it suggests

I love Rogues, and was finally able to get the gang to make an all Rogue party for a one-shot we played. It was great! Just last week they were saying we should do it again, and I'm SO HAPPY! #RogueForLife

There's a lot of flexibility in the "extra" feat. Careful selection could add all sorts of spell casting options!

The show "Leverage" is this and full of great archetypes and inspiration!

It was never about stealing what we needed for the heist for us. With a "home-base," we had knowledge of the city. That knowledge gave us information on the mage(s) who were looking for something. Finish that job for enchanted weapons (true strike {Yes, it does have a use} and shocking grasp.) Finally, a stone of silence and an enchanted box to hold it in to stop the noise from you dropping the one guy you need. Your combat now has consistent advantage and you never have to worry about disengaging.

The all-rogue and all-monk parties are super fun for people who like to play on hard mode.

I would definitely watch a stream of this all rogue party play through a campaign! 🤩 And Personally, I would love to see how far this party can go if you add in Multiclassing, still majority rogue levels though.

I play a high wisdom with Observant feat Rogue, by chance got a headband of intelect and that mix is simply INSANE.

The swashbuckler combo was sick dont know how I didn't see it from the jump

Monte mentioned shoring up weaknesses with feats, but I think he could have given it more thought. For example, the Swashbuckler with the feats of Tough and Alertness is going to get +5 to initiative and an extra 2 HP per level, which will strengthen his frontline fighting ability. Crossbow Expert and Sharpshooter for the Arcane Trickster will allow multiple attacks with a hand crossbow or an attack and a spell. Also, if the entire party took the Eldritch Adept feat to learn Disguise Self, they could be off the charts at infiltration. Add in the Actor feat and they could impersonate important NPCs for info gathering or infiltration.

I love this idea or fighter. Thinking about running a campaign where the only stipulation is everyone is a rogue or fighter and they have to go to at least the subclass feature at level 3. After that the world is their oyster as far as multiclass.

Playing a 3.5 campaign we have a 2 tier party. 3 of the characters are exceptionally stealthy 3 are the complete opposite so we do tend to split the party to the scout group & the heavy support for when combat can't be avoided. They also make great decoys. The stealthers set up an ambush & the decoys entice the target into the kill zone. The culmination of the first part of the campaign was a confrontation with a Shadow-weave enhanced black dragon. My Shadar-kai (Rogue 3/Ranger 2/Assassin 5) managed to crit on the sneak attacks so even thought the dragon avoided being killed by the death attack it still went down due to massive damage over 2 turns. Everybody had their chance to shine during the course of the adventure so my character's destruction of the dragon wasn't seen as anti-climactic. On the contrary missing even 1 of those attacks would have meant the deaths of everybody we were trying to rescue as the dragon drained their life essences to fully heal itself & would have made the final encounter much more tricky. As it was many of the group were nearly killed in the 3 examination rounds before the death attack so relief was felt rather than my character stealing all the glory.

Interesting concept for a stealth character to get XP for avoiding combat. So they need devices or strategies for creating scenarios for stealth multiple times in a confrontation. For instance they have smoke bombs or other distraction techniques to regain the ability to hide, get away, or sneak attack.

Arcane Trickster can be the charismatic one as well, if you play Kenku, you can mimic voices perfectly and with disguise self, you're golden Also, the Phantom rogue is a monster at multi enemy damage

One thing I took from bauldrs gate 3 is the thief rogues ability to take a second bonus action.

23:36 don't forget. If the combat doesn't go their way, this party has the tools to bail. With all having disengage/dash as a bonus action, they can run away without fear of leaving someone behind.

DMed for it and it was awesome. It was only two players but it was still great. I was going to DM a one shot for two of my players when we knew the other player couldn’t make it. I had a plan but when both players (without talking to each other or me) came to me with a rogue character. I dropped all of my plans and immediately started planning a heist. The characters made it in and out of the heist without ever being seen and killed the BBEG Archwarlock without the Warlock ever getting a turn. It was incredible. If I remember correctly it was an Assassins and a Soul Knife. The soul knife absolutely used their psychic abilities to the fullest neither character ever spoke out loud.