Make no mistake, the Rogue is on the offense.

About a decade ago, I rolled a druid/rogue hybrid, almost entirely so I could scoot around, as a rat, scout things out, give a layout of what we're getting into back to the party, act as a surprise flank when the rest of the party engages, take out numbskulls too busy fighting to notice the rat behind them and around a corner, animorphing into an elf/human halfling, with daggers.

That was the same run that I somehow got 2 nat 20s in a manuever that required passing I think 3 different skill checks.

Some kind of fairly large monster. The boss of our first actual proper dungeon, all low level, new characters.

Situation looking dire, one party member is gonna be dead dead if the only real healer dies, and the healer is almost dead. Every one is out of items, running low on everything.

(Much of this was due to them barging in while I was still trying to scout as rat. They got bored. They ran straight into a trap that rat me saw, but could not tell them about, due to being a rat, still inside the dungeon.)

So, after hastily finding a ssfe place to transmogrify, taking out as many henchmen type things as possible, as I move back toward the main room, I find my crew getting utterly wrecked by this thing, and despite being a glass cannon, I have the most health of any one in the party.

I tell the DM that I want to jump on this 15ish foot tall monster's back, and garrote it to death.

He says... uh... well... you can try...

You need to pass an agility and dexterity check, and that thing has pretty decent armor via its skin.

Nat 20 the agility check, basically Legolas over here, jump, twist flip, land, straddle.

Don't nat 20 the dex check, but it is high enough to pass, so I get the garrote around the beast's neck.

Nat 20 the damage roll.

The DM couldn't believe it, checks the stat sheet for the monster, checks my character's sheet, ... says I decapitate it, after about 10-20 seconds of getting my grip and basically sawing through the outer layers of its skin, eventually all the way through its vertebrae.

So anyway, hybrid builds can be fun, lol.

A guard sees a rat and screams, alerting the other guards. They help look for the rat.

Warlock

Bard

Wizard

Barbarian: Ignore me, I'm a normal lamp

Guards: Y-yup, nothing to see here.

Monk strats for the win. My new tactic is running up walls to get an attack from above and gaining free advantage.

If the guards coming in aren't just backup for me, they had better have class levels or they're gonna have issues with the traps.