D&D 3E/3.5 Assassin in 3.5: How did I miss this?

[marune]

Not so funny when the assassin in the group is played by your girlfriend

 

[ForceUser]

That and its a fairly lame PrC.

My gripe with it is my gripe with many PrCs--every time WotC wants to give a PrC unique abilities, they just slap spells on the class. It makes NO sense to me thematically that the assassin would have spells, and besides, like others have said, to me "assassin" is more of a profession than a class. IMC, assassins can be of any class as long as the NPC focuses on stealth and killing people. Personally, I like rogue/shadowdancers or monk/rogues.

 

[BluWolf]

My gripe with it is my gripe with many PrCs--every time WotC wants to give a PrC unique abilities, they just slap spells on the class. It makes NO sense to me thematically that the assassin would have spells, and besides, like others have said, to me "assassin" is more of a profession than a class. IMC, assassins can be of any class as long as the NPC focuses on stealth and killing people. Personally, I like rogue/shadowdancers or monk/rogues.

THANK YOU!!

Arbitrary spell casting ability makes up for poor concept execution in a LOT of PRCs. I re-wrote the assasin (and ranger and bard) for that matter with out spells.

 

[ForceUser]

THANK YOU!!

Arbitrary spell casting ability makes up for poor concept execution in a LOT of PRCs. I re-wrote the assasin (and ranger and bard) for that matter with out spells.

I think the worst is the dungeon delver from Song & Silence/Complete Adventurer. Why in the world would this lame-arse PrC have spell-like abilities? It makes no sense whatsoever. They really blew an opportunity to craft a cool skill-based class that can disarm traps and skulk through dungeons effectively.

Oh, wait, that would be the rogue.