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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rel" data-source="post: 1944110" data-attributes="member: 99">In case you haven't already, Eric, I highly, HIGHLY recommend that you read the Vlad Taltos, Jhereg novels by Steven Brust.  I particularly liked the setup for the assassination that was central to the first book (Jhereg).  I hope I get this spoiler tag thing right...[spoiler]Vlad has to kill a man who has stolen a HUGE amount of money from a criminal organization.  Complicating this is the fact that this man has taken refuge in the castle of a noble who is also a friend of Vlad's.  Killing the guy in his friend's home will result in the end of the friendship (since the noble will be honor bound to kill Vlad in retaliation) AND all out war between the criminal organization and the noble house.Add to this the fact that every passing hour brings the likelihood of the theft being discovered and the criminal organization losing face at having somebody steal from their treasury.  So they are VERY anxious and starting to send other assassins to do the job that Vlad is hesitant to tackle or to kill him for not getting on the stick quicker.Then the big whammy hits:  The target KNOWS that his death will bring about the fall of both the criminal organization and the noble house and he WANTS to die to cause this to happen because his family was wronged by both parties in the distant past.It's a sticky situation and I've ripped the whole thing off to great effect in a solo campaign long ago that I still regard as one of my best triumphs in gaming.[/spoiler]</blockquote>

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