4 Cantrips for the Arcane Trickster in D&D 5e

By mixing a little magic with their thievery, the Arcane Trickster gives the Rogue, an underappreciated class in D&D 5e, a nice little way to cheat the system and upgrade their game to the next level.
Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
01:23 - Mage Hand
04:42 - Booming Blade
07:32 - Friends
09:58 - Minor Illusion
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[@Pre-GenCharacter]

It's always good to make new friends, you just gotta make sure you have the charisma to keep them after they sober up

[@RingXross]

Nah, you've got their coin purse by that point. That's the only friend you need.

[@RingXross]

I rag on the Rogue as being underpowered a lot. But in creating this video, I think the Rogue is going a bit under the radar as a pure class. This subclass makes it really versatile and sounds like a lot of fun to play.

[@garywagner2616]

First, thanks for the heads-up on Booming Blade. I always thought that was a terrible cantrip to waste one of the few precious slots on. But that was due to a rules misunderstanding. I thought if the price of the material component was listed, the material was consumed by the spell. I have since learned that if the price is listed, the material component cannot be substituted, and in the case of Booming Blade, the spell does NOT consume the item. (I kept thinking, “Who the hell has that many swords?”) However, I still don’t like Friends. Chandler was too whiney, and Moni- wait, no - I’m sorry ... the whole thing with the open hostility is just too much. If regular persuasion doesn’t work, I prefer food bribes. The whale won’t take us to the Sea of Moving Ice unless we feed it some octopus? Wait, we have some other food (from a dead owlbear) that we swear to the gods tastes just like octopus! So, in payment for the Resurrection spell we have to ship all this cheese to the elven village, and this king who controls a bridge we must use will only let us pass if we provide him with some tasty cheese flavor for his soup? No need to use this tasteless crap we’re hauling, let us flavor your soup with some good cheese from our private stock! The minotaurs don’t respect us because we don’t have the stomachs for real food? Why yes, as a matter of fact, as you can taste for yourself, our iron rations DO taste like raw meat dripping with blood.
PRESTIDIGITATION - never leave home without it!

[@RingXross]

I am also susceptible to food bribes.