Play Vanus in Dungeons & Dragons (Warhammer 40K D&D 5.5E Build)

[@gregorygreenwood-nimmo4954]

The Vanus build rounds out all six of the major Officio Assassinorum Temples active in the 41st/42nd Millennium, giving people quite the spectrum of options when it comes to different methods of offing the Emperor's foes. This build leans heavily into the archetype of the mastermind intelligence gatherer, planner and leader figure, the voice on comms running the mission from a forward command point with all sort of useful information at their fingertips and with the ability to remote hack systems if necessary, issuing orders and defining objectives but also more than able to fight themselves if needs be. While you could use them solo to take out a target themselves (bonus points if you can arrange an 'accident' or frame a target so that they are eliminated with none of your fingerprints on the kill whatsoever), they seem like they would work best in a team environment, doing things like remotely causing shutters to open clearing line of sight to a target for a Vindicare sniper, gathering data to allow a Callidus to better impersonate a mark, providing access to a meal or other avenue for a Venenum to pursue their poisoner's calling, or unlocking a secured door to allow an Eversor or a Culexus to go in among a group of unfortunate victims like a fox in the hen house.

[@63rdLegionGaming]

I'm interested in how each will be played together for my upcoming one-shot, especially this one. Hopefully the player is up for the challenge

[@gregorygreenwood-nimmo4954]

@@63rdLegionGaming The possibility for teamwork shenanigans is definitely there.

[@LordCrate-du8zm]

How to play a Callidus Assassin in D&D 5e: Step 1: choose Changeling as your race Step 2: choose Rogue (Infiltrator) as your class And you’re done.

[@Jaeger_Bishop]

Basically, have this assassin work with any of the others or just simple minions, your players will be tearing their hair out trying to figure out why everything before, during, and even after combat keeps going wrong.

[@63rdLegionGaming]

The Vanus generally only solo when the situation calls for it (mechanicus target or a high profile that hard to get to). Their best work is when they act as handlers for the others, so they do all the work while the other hit/fight the target

[@Jaeger_Bishop]

@@63rdLegionGaming And that's exactly how I'm going to run this. Probably use an Arcane Grimoire and a Staff of Power to up the lethality.

[@63rdLegionGaming]

Yeah that definitely feels Vanus

[@БенедиктХристиан]

Thanks.

[@iacomplete_cyclepath9320]

Do you think you could make a build for Joker from Persona 5?

[@63rdLegionGaming]

I'll add him to my list