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##### Assassin
| Level | Proficiency<br> Bonus |Total<br>Shrouds|Max<br>Shrouds|Features|
| :--: | :--:| :--:|:--:|:--:
| 1st | +2 | 2 |1| Assassin's Shroud, Shadow Moves |
| 2nd | +2 | 2 |1|Specialised Tools, Expertise, Lethal |
| 3rd | +2 | 3 |2| Assassin's Guild, Hindering Cut |
| 4th | +2 | 4 |2| Ability Score Improvement, Preternatural Parry |
| 5th | +3 | 5 |3| Inevitability of Death |
| 6th | +3 | 6 |3| Guild Feature, Deadly Riposte |
| 7th | +3 | 7 |4| Evasion |
| 8th | +3 | 8 |4| Ability Score Improvement |
| 9th | +4 | 9 |5| Advanced Specialised Tool, Terrible Display |
| 10th | +4 | 10 |5| Quick on The Draw |
| 11th | +4 | 11 |6| Lethal Efficiency |
| 12th | +4 | 12 |6| Ability Score Improvement |
| 13th | +5 | 13 |7| Guild Feature |
| 14th | +5 | 14 |7| Focused Shrouds
| 15th | +5 | 15 |8| Specialised Tool Improvement
| 16th | +5 | 16 |8| Ability Score Improvement |
| 17th | +6 | 17 |9| Lethal Mastery|
| 18th | +6 | 18 |9| Guild Feature
| 19th | +6 | 19 |10| Ability Score Improvement |
| 20th | +6 | 20 |10| Master Assassin
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## Class Features
As an Assassin, you gain the following features
#### Hit Points
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- Hit Dice: 1d8 per Assassin level
- Hit Points at 1st Level: 8 + your Constitution modifier
- Hit Points at Higher Levels: 5 (1d8) + your Constitution modifier per Assassin level after 1st.
#### Proficiencies
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- Armor: Light Armor
- Weapons: Simple Weapons, crossbows, short bow, light or finesse weapons lacking the heavy property
- Tools: see the Specialised Tools class feature
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- Saving Throws: Dexterity, Charisma
- Skills: Stealth, and choose 3 from Acrobatics, Athletics, Deception, Insight, Intimidation, Investigation, Perception, Persuasion, Sleight of Hand, Survival.
#### Equipment
You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:
- (a) showrtbow or (b) hand crossbow
- (a) a martial weapon or (b) two simple weapons
- (a) a burglar's pack or (b) an explorer's pack
- leather armor, two daggers, and 1 tool
#### Vulnerable Targets, Assassin Save DC, and Assassin's Weapons
Many of your Assassin abilities reference a Vulnerable target. A creature is Vulnerable to you if it is Charmed, Frightened, Incapacitated, Poisoned, Restrained, or Surprised.
Assassin Weapons are all crossbows, bows, and any simple or light weapon that lacks the heavy property.
If an Assassin feature requires a creature to make a saving throw to resist the feature’s effects, the saving throw DC is calculated as follows:
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DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Intelligence modifier
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### Assassin's Shroud
At first level, you gain the ability to place a Shroud on a target you can see within 100ft of you at the start of your turn, or as part of rolling initiative. You can place your maximum Shrouds on a target if you are hidden, or if the target is Vulnerable. A shroud remains until you invoke it, otherwise spend it, choose to remove your shrouds from a target, or use this ability on a different creature. Your maximum shrouds on a target are equal to 1/2 your total Shrouds. You regain all spent shrouds at the end of a short or long rest.
While your shroud is on a target, you gain the following benefits.
- Double proficiency bonus on any Wisdom or Inteligence ability check involving your shroud target.
- Your attacks against your shroud target are critical hits if you roll a 19 or 20 on the attack roll, when the target has your maximum Shrouds upon it.
- When you hit with an attack with an Assassin Weapon, you can invoke your shrouds to deal 1d10 extra damage per shroud. When you do so, your shrouds are spent and removed from the target after the attack is resolved.
- If a creature is reduced to 0HP or otherwise knocked unconcious while under your shroud and have your shrouds have not been invoked, all shrouds on that target return to you immediately.
### Shadow Moves
At first level, you can attempt to hide when only light obscured by dim light, fog, smoke, or a dense crowd.
Additionally, you gain special abilities called Shadow Moves, which can be used as a bonus action when you hit or miss a creature with a weapon attack, or as an action.
Once per turn, you can spend 1 Shroud to take the Hide action as part of using a Shadow Move on your turn. You can attempt to hide before or after using a Shadow Move.
- You gain 15 ft of extra movement this turn and ignore difficult terrain and gain a climb speed equal to your walking speed until the start of your next turn.
- Become lightly obscured by a crowd simply by doing nothing out of the ordinary, and by moving no more than half your speed, while at least 3 non-hostile creatures are near you.
- Take a defensive posture. You have a bonus to AC until the start of your next turn equal to your Intelligence modifier.
- Make a single weapon attack against a creature, so long as you reduced another creature to 0hp or scored a critical hit against them during this turn.
- Regain Shrouds equal to your proficiency modifier, so long as you invoked Shrouds and reduced a traget under your Shrouds to 0hp this turn.
### Specialised Tools
Starting at level 2, you choose a Specialised Tool. Choose one Basic Specialised Tool. You gain proficiency with the listed tool, and the benefits described below.
You can create or replace 1 basic poison or specialised poisoner's tool, disguise, or device as part of a short rest. You cannot do so again in such a short time until you have completed a long rest.
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Disguise Kit
You gain proficiency in the Disguise Kit, and learn to make clothing that can be made to appear very different if turned insie out or otherwise manipulated, and allows you to don or discard your disguise as part of another action, without losing the disguise. You can carry a number of Specialised Disguises equal to your Intelligence modifier. For each one, you develop a name, basic personal history, distinctive gait, stance, and mode of speech. Any creature who knows you under one of your Specialised diguises is certain that this is simply who you are, and does not question your identity unless you give them explicit reason to do so. You can choose to instead creature such a disguise for another creature.
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Poisoner's Kit
You gain proficiency with the Poisoner's Kit, and you learn the recipe for the Basic POison found in the PHB. You can only learn a poison if it's cost is equal to your Assassin level times 50, rounded down. Learning to make new poisons requires the cost of one dose of the poison and 2 hours of study and experimentation per 50 gold of the cost of the poison. You might learn a new poison formula from an apothecary, another assassin, or from a rare book, at your DM's discretion. Your specialised poisoner's tools hidden on your person allow you to apply a poison to a weapon or to ammunition as part of the action used to attack, or to apply the poison to food, drink, or an object as part of another action, once per turn. You can choose a secondary effect when you make Basic Poison, from the following options. The target makes a save aginst the effects at the start of each of it's turns, and the effect ends after 1 minute regardless.
- The target gains disadvantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight.
- The target has trouble controlling their speach and moving carefully, gaining disadvantage on Stealth, Deception, or Slieght of Hand checks.
- The target's speed is reduced by a number of feet equal to 5 times your Intelligence modifier.
Your assassin save DC replaces the normal DC for a poison, including the DC to treat a creature poisoned by you.
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Tinker's Tools
You gain proficiency with Tinker's tools. Choose an Assassin weapon, and construct a concealable version of that weapon. This could a dagger blade or hand crossbow hidden in a bracer, that extends when you strike with it, a bow that folds into an innocuous object and folds out as part of the attack action, a one-handed weapon like a scimitar or spear that collapses and telescopes or is cleverly disguised as a cane, or something else worked out between you and your DM.
The statistics of the weapon do not change, except as described below.
- The weapon does not appear to be a weapon to the eyes of observers, and even a close inspection has disadvantage to determine that it is a weapon, or that you are armed.
- The weapon can be drawn and stowed as part of each attack made with it.
- If your Specialised Weapon is a melee weapon, you can spend a bonus action grant yourself advantage on your next attack with the weapon before the start of your next turn.
- If your Specialised Wepaon is a ranged weapon it loses the loading property, and it's short range is doubled.
### Expertise
At 2nd level, choose 1 skill or your specialised tool. You add double your proficiency bonus to checks made with that skill or tool, and with the Stealth skill.
### Lethal
At 2nd level, you are the epitome of the efficient killer. When you make a weapon attack that would reduce a target to a number of hit points equal to or less than your level, you instead reduce them to 0 hit points.
### Hindering Cut
Starting at level 3, when you deal damage with a weapon attack to a target that is Vulnerable, the target must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or suffer one of the following effects, chosen by you; lose the ability to speak, have their speed reduced by half, or be unable to take opportunity attacks. A target who fails can make a saving throw against the effect at the end of each of it's turns, or a successful Medicine check at the same DC ends the effect, as does receiving any magical healing.
### Assassin's Guild
At third level, you must choose which Guild your skillset comes from.
### Ability Score Improvement
When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 12th, 16th, and 19th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, you can’t increase an ability score above 20 using this feature. Alternatively, you can choose a feat (see Chapter 6 for a list of feats).
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### Preternatural Parry
Starting at level 4, as a reaction when you hit by a melee attack, you can try to cause the attcker to overextend, to your advantage. Roll 1d10+your dexterity modifier+your Assassin level and reduce the damage of the attack by the result. If you reduce the damage to 0, the attack misses you and deals no damage.
### Extra Attack
Beginning at 5th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.
### Deadly Riposte
Starting at level 6, you can spend 1 shroud as a reaction when an attack misses you, to either take a Shadow Move, or make an attack against the creature that attacked you, if they are within range. Add a 1d10 bonus to the damage roll, or a single ability checky you make as part of a Shadow Move.
If you cause an attack to miss with Preternatural Parry, you can use Deadly Riposte as part of the same reaction.
### Guild Feature
At 6th level, you gain a new feature from the Assassin's Guild you chose at level 3.
### Evasion
At 7th level, your instinctive agility lets you dodge out of the way of certain area effects, such as a blue dragon’s lightning breath or a fireball spell. When you are subjected to an effect that allows you to make a Dexterity saving throw to take only half damage, you instead take no damage if you succeed on the saving throw, and only half damage if you fail.
### Advanced Specialised Tool
Starting at 9th level, you gain an advanced use of your tools, depending on what tool you learned to use via your Specialised Tool class feature. You also gain an additional Basic Specialised Tool.
Disguise Kit Creatures now have disadvantage on checks to see through your Specialised Disguises. You can create convincing disguises for yourself and up to 6 other creatures as part of a long rest, with all the same benefits as your Specialised Disguises.
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Poisoner's Kit You become resistent to poison, and have advantage on any check or save to avoid being poisoned, and on checks to detect, identify, and treat, poisons.
Tinker's Tools you can use your tools as if they were Thieves Tools, and use your Tinker's Tools proficiency to do so. You also learn how to make a specialised tool that can either be integrated into your hidden weapon, or a separate device. Select from the following. YOu can replace a lost or broken device, during a short rest.
- A spring loaded grappling cord with a barbed tip. It has a range of 30ft, and is strong enough to hold the wieght of up to your Int modifier medium creatures at one time. When it has no more than 1 medium creature worth of wieght on it, you can use your action to pull the cord in, either pulling you toward the grappled end of the cord, or pulling an unattended object or a creature toward you. An unwilling creature must succeed on a strength save against your assassin save DC to avoid being pulled. This device can be attached to a ranged weapon.
- An enhanced spyglass. You can see up to 1 mile away as if your were viewing something within 100 ft of you. Creatures you see through your spyglass count as being within 100ft of you. You have darkvision when using this spyglass, within the limited field of view of the spyglass.
### Fear and Shadow
Beginning at level 9, you gain new Shadow Moves.
- You can try to put the fear of Death into a creature that can see and hear you. The target must succeed on a save vs your Assassin save DC or be Frightened of you until the end of your next turn. On subsequent turns, you can use your Bonus Action to extend the duration of this effect until the end of your next turn. This effect ends if the creature ends its turn out of line of sight or more than 60 feet away from you.
- You cast the Nondetection or Pass Without Trace spell. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest. While you have no uses available, you can spend 1 Shroud to use this feature again.
### Quick On The Draw
At level 10, when you fail a deception, stealth, or slieght of hand check, you can use a Shadow Action, or make a single weapon attack, as part of the action used to make the failed check.
#### Lethal Efficiency
Beginning at 11th level, your Shrouds become more deadly, and your Lethal feature cuts deeper.
When you attack a creature who is under your maximum Shrouds, your attacks are critical hits on a roll of 18-20. Additionally, your Lethal feature applies to any creature that takes damage from any of your Assassin class features, and triggers if the damage reduces them to HP equal to or less than your Assassin level plus your Intelligence modifier.
### Guild Feature
at level 13, Your Guild training provides you with a new ability, or improves an existing ability.
### Hunter's Gaze
Starting at 14th level, you can study a creature and gain greater insights about them. If you study or interact with a creature for at least 1 minute, they become Vulnerable to you for the next 24 hours. You also learn their hit point total, and any damage or condition vulnerabilities and resistences or immunities they have.
### Death's Messenger
Beginning at 15th level, your mastery over death has made you more difficult to kill, and has granted you deeper insight into the mysteries of Death. You can add your proficiency modifier to death saving throws, and you can cast Speak With Dead and Gentle Repose spells as rituals.
When you cast Gentle Repose on a creature, any attempt to contact or resurect the creature is hampered, requiring an ability check against your Assassin Save DC.
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### Lethal Mastery
Beginning at 17th level, your Hit Point threshold of your Lethal feature becomes your level+your proficiency bonus+your intelligence modifier, and your weapon attack damage against Vulnerable targets gains a bonus equal to your proficiency bonus + your intelligence modifier.
### Guild Feature
at level 18, you've mastered the teachings of your guild.
### Angel of Death
At 20th level, you become an avatar of the cycle of Death and Life. You do not suffer the effects of old age, though you can die of old age. When you die, you can choose to return to life 1 year later, re-entering the world of the living from the land of the dead at the age at which you gained this ability. You cannot do so again for 1 year.
### Guilds of The Assassin
Assassins are varied, but most belong to a Guild, and most Guilds follow one of the Guild archetypes listed here.
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Any guild that focuses on physical movement, enhancing the mystical bond with the shroud target, and "death from above" tactics of swooping in from nowhere to strike then disapear, follow the Guild traditions of the Peryton.
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Those who empower their Shroud with shadow magic, becoming as shadows to steal life force from their targets while passing through objects and appearing from thin air to strike with lethal living shadows, follow the tradition of the Wraith Guild.
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Assassins who rely on varied poisons, while using mobility to keep out of the reach of reprisal, making even a small cut into a lethal strike, rely on the skills pioneered by the Manticore Guild.
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Perhaps most terrifying of all are the guilds who look to the traditions of the Doppelganger, who teach a combination of manipulation, disguise, and mind-bending magic, to charm and frighten their targets, turn their allies against them, and often take down their target without ever touching them.
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Regardless of your Guild, you will gain new abilities and improve core Assassin features as you level, and gain reputation within the secret circles of the Assassins.
## Guild of The Peryton
Incredible athletes, highly skilled in, tracking, social engineering and blending into a crowd, the Perytons are students of the oldest traditions of the Assassins. Their most lethal tools are an intense focus on their prey and a preternatural ability to leap from great heights unharmed, often following their prety from rooftops and landing upon them from several stories up, the mark dead before the assassin takes their next step.
### Heart Seeker
At 3rd level, when a creature is under your Shroud, you know their exact location, and can tell roughly how close they are by the sound of their heartbeat, as long as they are within 100ft of you.
### Death From Above
At 3rd level, when you move at least 20 feet as part of a fall, while flying, or after taking the Dash action or using a Shadow Move that increases your speed, your next weapon attack is made with advantage.
Additionally, when you would take falling damage, you can reduce the damage by a number equal to 5 times your Assassin level and you do not fall prone when you reduce falling damage to 0. Landing on a creature causes that creature to take the falling damage that you avoid with this ability, instead.
### Level 6 Archetype Rock
Starting at 6th level, you no longer provoke opportunity attacks when you are falling or flying, or when you take the Dash action. When you Dash, or use a Shadow Move that increases your speed or gives you a climb speed, you increase your jump distance and height by a number of feet equal to your dexterity score.
### Level 13 Archetype Rock
Starting at 13th level, you gain a Guild Tool, based on what Specialised Tool you chose at level 2.
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Disguise Kit
While you or an ally are using one of your disguises, the wearer can add your intelligence modifier to any check made to blend into a crowd.
Poisoner's Kit
You learn a new tincture, called a Deadeye Tincture. When you drink it, you spend 1 hit die and gain advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks involving sight, and you can see minute details out to 1 mile away as if you were looking within your immediate surroundings. The effect lasts for 1 hour.
Tinker's Tools
You craft a suit of Studded Leather armor called a Glide-Wing, with specialised flaps and hinges that allow for limited flight. As a bonus action, you can activate the gliding wings of your armor and gain a fly speed equal to your speed + your dexterity score in feet. You cannot fly from a standing position, but must instead leap from at least 20ft above the nearest surface. If an effect allows you to jump that high, you can use such a jump to engage the flight instead. You can disengage gliding mode as a bonus action or using 10ft of movement.
### Master of The Peryton
Starting at 18th level, you get something big like knowing your Shroud target's exact location on the same plane of existence and being able to spend an action to see and hear them?
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## Guild of The Wraith
Here you can provide an overview of the archetype.
### Level 3 Shadow Hand
At 3rd level, you gain the ability to cast certain spells. Intelligence is your spellcasting ability score for these spells. (learn spells at levels appropriate for a 1/3 caster, cost 1 shroud per spell level, except cantrips. minor illusion, pass without trace, darkness, shadowblade,summon shadow,
### Level 3 The Shadow of Death
Additionally at 3rd level, you gain Darkvision out to 30ft. If you already have Darkvision it's range increases by 30ft. While in dim light or darkness, you can use your movement to teleport up to your speed. This form of movement follows the normal rules for movement on your turn.
## Guild of The Manticore
You gain the knowledge of three new Specialised Poisons called a Guild Poison, and your Basic Poison damage gains a bonus equal to your Intelligence modifier.
When you make a Guild Poison, you can choose to instead make a gas in a glass vial or a specially crafted arrow that affects creatures within 5 ft of the space in which the vial is broken, or to make a flavored or flavorless additive that can be added to food or drink.
Regardless of the delivery method, the DC is your assassin save DC.
- Sleep Tincture. The target must save or fall unconcious. They can make a new save any time they take damage after the initial damage, and at the end of every minute, and another creature can wake them by shaking them as an action. If the target is dropped to 0hp or fewer by this poison, it is unconcious until treated with a medicine check against your save DC.
- Rictus Tincture. The target must save or be restrained for 1 minute. They can make a new save by using their action to try to shake off the effect.
- Reflex Tincture. A creature that drinks this tincture loses 1 hit die or 1 hit die worth of HP, and then gains advantage on dexterity saving throws and a +5 ft bonus to speed for 1 minute.
