Roguish Archetype: Slasher

I met this six-year-old child with this blank, pale, emotionless face, and the blackest eyes; the devil's eyes. I realized what was living behind that boy's eyes was purely and simply...evil. --Dr. Loomis, Psychiatrist.

The world is harsh, cruel and destructive just as it is filled with joy and pleasures. It is the confusion or intentional blending of these two sides that results in an individual's search of darker thrills. An Slasher revels on the fear it inflicts on its victims, whether it derives from a deviant desire or from the feeling of control over their own lives that they achieve by inflicting their will on the weak. The most malevolent among them manage to even blur the line of mundane and the supernatural with the way they go on to sate their cravings.

Slasher Features Rogue Level Features 3rd Bonus Proficiencies, Insidious Killer 9th Uncanny Rebuke 13th Evil Within 17th Shape of Terror

Bonus Proficiencies When you choose this archetype at 3rd level, you gain proficiency with the Intimidation skill and the disguise kit.

Insidious Killer By the time you choose this archetype at 3rd level, you have learned to use surprise and cruelty to instill fear in the hearts of your prey. Whenever you score a critical hit with a melee attack or reduce a creature within 5 feet of you to 0 hit points, you can force a creature within 30 feet of you that can see you to make a Wisdom saving throw (DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Charisma modifier). On a failure, that creature becomes frightened of you until the end of your next turn. Additionally, you have advantage on attacks against creatures that are frightened of you.

Uncanny Rebuke Your ability to seemingly shrug off punishment becomes deeply unsettling to your foes. Beginning at 9th level, when you use your Uncanny Dodge feature, the attacker must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw (DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Charisma modifier) if it is within 30 feet of you or become frightened of you until the start of their next turn. A creature that succeeds on the saving throw becomes immune to this feature for 8 hours.

Evil Within At 13th level, your shrewd manipulation of others grants you the upper hand over their actions. When you use your Slasher's Delight feature and succeed on the skill contest, you become fixated on the target and gain advantage on any Strength, Dexterity and Charisma skill checks you make against them for 1 hour. This feature ends early if you fixate on a new creature.