It’s no secret that rogues have always been my favorite class in D&D. So, when we decided the new printed Lair Zines would give us more room to explore player options, I knew exactly where I wanted to start.

Meet the Stitcher, a new rogue subclass in Lair: Force & Freedom.

Stitchers take inspiration from golems and mechanical soldiers and piece together a stitched homunculus companion from once-living flesh.

Your homunculus fights alongside you, follows your commands, and helps set up your attacks. You even decide what it looks like and whether it’s Small or Medium.

And as you gain levels, things get even stranger.

At higher levels, you can graft new abilities onto your homunculus, including:

Eventually, you can link your consciousness directly to it, communicate telepathically, and even see and hear through its senses.

And at very high levels?

Let’s just say your little friend can become considerably more... explosive.

The original Lair Magazine was overwhelmingly focused on helping game masters. Adventures. Monsters. Encounters. Traps. Puzzles. That’s still a huge part of what Lair Zine is about, but the new printed line also gives us the opportunity to explore player options in a way we rarely did before.

And the Stitcher is exactly the kind of thing I want to do more of: useful mechanically, but weird enough to immediately inspire a character and a story.

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See you in the Lair,

-Luke