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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ezel" data-source="post: 6627906" data-attributes="member: 6795910">Careful planning is brilliant, honestly stuff like the ranger's favored terrain would work better this way, so that you are not gimped when outside of your terrain, you just have to prepare beforehand, I might actually switch the ranger favored terrain for this mechanic.Lethal is interesting, it could be cool to see it growing with levels, up to enemies with maybe 25hp and maybe having a version at higher levels that takes down enemies with 80hp remaining if they fail a constitution save. There are magic weapons that already do this always.Tools of the trade makes this assassin more of a dervish fighter than a stealthy character, even more so if you consider they get the fighting style. Even though the character wouldn't be able to resist a melee, because of the 1d6 damage die.Contacts sounds really weird as a class feature, it's more of a backgrund feature.Extreme Lethality I see that this improves the lethal threshold, but only once at level 5 and only with surprises, since there are already magic weapon features the lethality is where you can go wild.Ghost is a very very strong ribbon feature, but it's still a ribbon feature and very situational as well.Masterful Planning brings the ranger "better in a place or another" back in place, but being only a change of speed it's not too bad, anyway it's unneeded.Eye of the raven has really weird wording, in general the rule wording is not too precise for all the features, keep an eye on that.Master's Precision puzzles me, why would I want to add a status when I can simply bring the creature down? At level 19 as well, on a creature with 5-10hp that's not even gonna happen often at all.Master Assassin is another strange background feature, these things are usually gained by the player by playing the character, they don't automatically come at a certain level.There's a lot of stuff in the archetypes and I don't have time to comment everything.There are some very good ideas, but I think it would be better to just use the best ideas as another archetype for the rogue, instead of making this into an entirely new class. You managed to avoid making an overpowered class, which is generally good for homebrew since underwhelming homebrews get accepted by DMs while homebrews that only look overpowered are avoided even if they are actually balanced. The class might be underpowered though, having a large amount of situational and utility features, without any stable source of damage similar to extra attack or sneak attack. Also considering how the classes try to be simple in 5e, this class has too many features, you need to choose few features and let them grow with levels. Your assassin has 36 paragraphs divided between base and 2 archetypes, the Rogue in the handbook has 28 paragraphs divided between base and 3 archetypes. In particular your archetypes have way too much depth when compared to usual archetypes.</blockquote>

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