These Balance Buffs 🔼 make Inquisitive Rogue GOOD, D&D 5e Sherlock Holmes fighting
Channel: Funky Dungeon Master
Date: 2022-04-28

I think the Inquisitive Rogue's 3rd level ability Insightful Fighting is an extremely situational and unreliable ability. In my simple Buff, I made it less unreliable. In my flavorful Buff, I made it less situational, and insert a certain discombobulation.. I mean Sherlock Holmes fighting flavor.

Click for Treantmonk's analysis of the Rogue subclasses and why Inquisitive Rogue is bad: https://youtu.be/2DWhaYEB8-w?t=2097
Click for RPGBOT's analysis of the Rogue subclasses and why Inquisitive Rogue is bad: https://rpgbot.net/dnd5/characters/classes/rogue/subclasses/

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Timestamps:
0:00 Madlad Intro
0:21 Insightful Fighting SUCKS and why
1:53 Combat Examples: when to Insightful Fighting
4:48 Simple BUFF, elegant and easy to remember
5:12 Flavorful BUFF, DISCOMBOBULATE!
8:32 Swashbuckler Rogue comparison
10:32 Summary

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Inquisitive Rogue balancing fix for D&D 5e from Thien's Balance Homebrew series:
Simple BUFF:
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**Insightful Fighting** 
At 3rd level, you gain the ability to decipher an opponent's tactics and develop a counter to them. As a bonus action, you can choose a creature you can see that isn't incapacitated. You can use your Sneak Attack against that target even if you don’t have advantage on the attack roll, but not if you have disadvantage on it.
This benefit lasts for 1 minute or until you use this feature against a different target.
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Flavorful BUFF, taking inspiration from Sherlock Holmes movie's fighting scene Discombobulate:
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**Insightful Fighting**
At 3rd level, you gain the ability to decipher an opponent's tactics and develop a counter to them. As a bonus action, you can make a Wisdom (Insight) check against a creature you can see that isn't incapacitated, contested by the creatures’s Charisma (Deception) check. If you succeed, you gain the following benefits:
- You can use your Sneak Attack against that creature even if you don't have advantage on the attack roll, but not if you have disadvantage on it.
- You can add half your Wisdom modifier to your AC against all attack rolls that creature makes against you and to all saving throws that creature forces you to make.
These benefits last for 1 minute or until you successfully use this feature against a different creature.
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I'm an avid consumer of D&D optimization content like Treantmonk and RPGBOT. And I want to use that knowledge to make the game more fun for optimizers and non-optimizers alike. Thus, born the Thien's Balance Homebrew series for D&D 5th edition 🥂: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOlGNxI48E1xaHdQJCdVRNd0fcSf-aBqT

By making all the player options balanced, I hope to remove trap options for players that don't like to worry much about the nitty-gritty game mechanics. Also, when all the player options are roughly equivalent in power, we can worry a bit less about picking a powerful option and more about which option brings out the flavor we want.

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Inquisitive Rogue flavor blurb: As an archetypal Inquisitive, you excel at rooting out secrets and unraveling mysteries. You rely on your sharp eye for detail, but also on your finely honed ability to read the words and deeds of other creatures to determine their true intent. You excel at defeating creatures that hide among and prey upon ordinary folk, and your mastery of lore and your keen deductions make you well equipped to expose and end hidden evils.

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