Silver-Tongued
Feat
sourcePHB
New in SW5eBrand-new SW5e trick: during the Attack action you can swap one attack for a Charisma (Deception) check against a humanoid within 30 feet (vs Wisdom (Insight)). If you succeed, your movement doesn’t provoke opportunity attacks from that target and your attack rolls against them have advantage until the end of your next turn; if you fail, you can’t deceive that target for 1 hour.✨
Gain Deception expertise; trade one attack for a contested Deception check to suppress opportunity attacks and gain advantage on the target.
SocialCombatHalf-feat · +1 Charisma
●○○value · costs an attack, high failure risk
Best fora Charisma-based melee fighter who wants to weave deception into combat for safer repositioning and advantage
Skip ifyou never make Deception checks and don't use the Attack action
!The combat deception replaces an attack, so it costs you damage output and can fail on a bad contested roll.
faceduelist
social-faceskill-mastery
Pairs withCharisma-melee builds · Operative or Rogue-adjacent · Promising Commander
You develop your conversational skill to better deceive others. You gain the following benefits:
- Increase your Charisma score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
- You gain proficiency in the Deception skill. If you are already proficient in it, you instead gain expertise in it.
- When you take the Attack action, you can replace one attack with an attempt to deceive one humanoid you can see within 30 feet of you that can see and hear you. Make a Charisma (Deception) check contested by the target's Wisdom (Insight) check. If your check succeeds, your movement doesn't provoke opportunity attacks from the target and your attack rolls against it have advantage; both benefits last until the end of your next turn or until you use this ability on a different target. If your check fails, the target can't be deceived by you in this way for 1 hour.