### roguish archetype # Flash Adept Across the realms, one can encounter a vast variety of teachings and combat styles, each focusing on a different aspect of a warrior’s arsenal. Many monastic temples focus on the primal power within one’s spirit, teaching students to release it in the form of elemental energy; which usually manifests as a specific element the user has affinity for. Although not a dedicated practitioner of martial arts, you’ve taken the techniques of this tradition as your own, utilizing your affinity for lightning to unleash supernatural speed upon the battlefield.

### Spark Release Starting at 3rd level, you’ve developed unique prowess in
hand-to-hand combat. You can use Dexterity instead of Strength for the attack and damage rolls of your unarmed strikes. When you do so, they deal 1d6 damage on a hit. Additionally, you are able to activate your *Sneak Attack* feature when hitting a creature with an unarmed strike. Whenever you do so, you can choose to forgo one or more
of the extra damage dice, making an additional unarmed strike against the target for each die relinquished in this
way; up to a maximum number of strikes equal to half
your Dexterity modifier (rounded up).

### Flash Step Also at 3rd level, your technique allows you to unleash
brief bursts of blinding speed. After you take the Disengage action, you can immediately teleport up to 10 feet to an unoccupied space that you can see (no action required). This motion doesn’t count towards your movement in that turn. You cannot use this feature if your speed is 0, or you have no movement left on your turn. The range of your teleportation increases to 15 feet at 9th level, and 20 feet at 17th level.

### Greater Step (Optional) *This 6th-level feature replaces the **Expertise** feature.
You gain no benefit from the replaced feature and don't qualify for anything in the game that requires it.* ___ You can now activate the *Flash Step* feature after taking the Dodge action on your turn.

### Rising Surge At 9th level, you are able to fully manifest your elemental power, enveloping yourself in a coat of lightning which greatly boosts your abilities. As a bonus action, you can expend one hit die to enter a **Surging State**, lasting for up to 1 minute. While in this state, you are granted the following benefits:

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- You shed bright light in a 5-foot radius and dim light for an additional 5 feet, as lightning furiously crackles around your body. - You gain resistance to lightning damage. - Whenever you hit a creature with an unarmed strike and your attack roll exceeds the target’s AC by 5 or more, they take an extra 1d6 lightning damage. - You gain access to the *Shocking Grasp* and *Lightning Lure* cantrips, being able to cast either of them as a bonus action on your turn. Constitution is your spellcasting ability for these spells. You may use this feature a number of times equal to half your proficiency bonus (rounded down), regaining expended uses when you finish a long rest.

\page ``` ``` ### Celerity Flux At 13th level, your reflexes are enhanced to an even greater height, making you akin to a feline dancing in the battlefield. You gain further benefits while in Surging State: - Your movement is unaffected by difficult terrain. - You can stand up from being prone without expending movement. - You can take the Dodge action as a bonus action on your turn. - Whenever a creature targets you with a melee attack, you can use your reaction to gain a +2 bonus to your AC until the end of the attacker’s turn. - Whenever you would take fall damage, you can use your reaction to make a Dexterity (Acrobatics) check. On a result of 17 or lower, you halve the total damage taken.
On a result of 18 or higher, you take no fall damage.

### Extreme Spark Mastery At 17th level, the destructive power of your techniques reaches its pinnacle. You are granted even further benefits while in Surging State: - You gain immunity to lightning damage. - Your spells and abilities ignore resistance to lightning damage, and treat immunity as resistance. - The extra lightning damage of your unarmed strikes can now be triggered with an exceedance of 3 or more. - You gain access to the *Lightning Bolt* spell, being able to cast it at will without expending a spell slot, and without material components. When you do so, you may expend one or more of your available hit dice to increase the level of the spell by 1 per hit die expended; up to a 7th level maximum. Constitution is your spellcasting ability for
this spell.

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