Echo Runners turn sound into misdirection. They study how voices travel through alleys, caverns, and crowded halls, then use that knowledge to create openings for precise attacks and vanish before foes can answer. Their craft suits scouts, infiltrators, and battlefield skirmishers who prefer a whispered cue to a shouted command.
Every sound is a trail—and every trail can be falsified.
Mobile infiltrator and skirmisher who uses sound to misdirect foes and create openings.
At a glance
Echo charges
Hit die d8
Dexterity
WisdomSubclass of Rogue
You gain proficiency in Performance or with one musical instrument of your choice. You can mimic simple sounds you have heard, such as a short call, a footstep, or a creaking hinge. A creature that hears the imitation can identify it as false with a successful Wisdom (Insight) check against your Dexterity (Stealth) check. You also gain a pool of echo charges equal to your proficiency bonus, and regain all expended charges when you finish a long rest. As a bonus action, expend one charge to create a brief sound you have heard at a point you can see within 60 feet. One creature within 10 feet of that point that can hear it must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw (DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Dexterity modifier) or have disadvantage on the next opportunity attack it makes before the start of your next turn.
When you use Cunning Action to Dash or Disengage, you can leave a convincing sound of your movement at the space you left. Until the start of your next turn, the first creature that hears the sound has disadvantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks to locate you. In addition, immediately after you take the bonus action, you can move up to 10 feet without provoking opportunity attacks. You can use this additional movement once on each of your turns.
You can use your action to create a pocket of unnatural quiet centered on yourself, with a 10-foot radius, for 1 minute. The quiet moves with you and ends early if you are incapacitated or dismiss it (no action required). Sounds made within the area cannot be heard outside it, and creatures outside it cannot hear sounds made within. You can speak and hear normally within the area. Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.
When you hit a creature with an attack that qualifies for Sneak Attack, you can expend one echo charge to add 3d6 psychic damage to the attack. The target must also make a Wisdom saving throw against your Soundwright save DC. On a failure, it can't take reactions until the end of your next turn. You can use this feature only once per turn.
DexterityWisdomHit pointsAs Rogue: per rogue level; 8 + Constitution modifier at 1st level, then (or 5) + Constitution modifier per rogue level thereafter.
Saving throwsAs Rogue: Dexterity and Intelligence saving throw proficiencies. Soundwright save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Dexterity modifier.
TrainingAs Rogue. At 3rd level, gain proficiency in Performance or with one musical instrument of your choice.
Skill choicesAs Rogue: choose four skills from Acrobatics, Athletics, Deception, Insight, Intimidation, Investigation, Perception, Performance, Persuasion, Sleight of Hand, and Stealth.
ResourceEcho charges: a pool equal to your proficiency bonus, regained on a long rest. Soundwright and Shattering Refrain expend charges.
MulticlassingThis subclass adds no multiclass prerequisites or proficiencies. Use the Rogue's normal multiclassing rules. Echo charges are based on your total proficiency bonus.
Echo Runners turn sound into misdirection.
They study how voices travel through alleys, caverns, and crowded halls, then use that knowledge to create openings for precise attacks and vanish before foes can answer. Their craft suits scouts, infiltrators, and battlefield skirmishers who prefer a whispered cue to a shouted command.
You play a mobile Rogue who shapes attention rather than controlling a battlefield outright.
Use Soundwright to spoil a foe’s opportunity attack or draw attention away from your route, then use Cunning Action and Trailing Footfall to reposition. Veil of Stillness is best for a quiet approach or a rapid escape, while Shattering Refrain rewards saving an echo charge for a high-value Sneak Attack.
A prospective Echo Runner usually learns from a scout, courier, or stage performer.
Training combines careful listening, sound imitation, stealth drills, and navigation through echoing spaces. Initiates prove themselves by crossing a guarded route without being correctly located.
Ordinary people often mistake Echo Runners for performers or messengers until they notice how easily one can make a sound come from the wrong direction.
In places troubled by espionage, their talents inspire both suspicion and gratitude.
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