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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shadow" data-source="post: 882196" data-attributes="member: 2182"><p>I'm wondering how assassination would be viewed in the D&D alignment system. Would it always be an evil act?  Standard D&D alignment seems to say so, especially since the assassin PrC has to be an evil alignment.  Would it be possible however, to have a nuetral aligned assassin (not necessarily having the assassin prestige class)?  I'm thinking specifically of an agent working for a king who is in charge of assassinating enemies of the state or powerful criminals.  Such a character would seem more LN to me, but the idea of killing someone who is not directly threatening you would be described as evil in D&D alignment.  Or how about the US's recent strikes against Saddam's palaces? (Sorry, I don't mean to bring up politics, but this is just an example).  Since we were targeting Saddam directly, this could be an "assassination" attempt.  But, I'm not about to argue this was an evil act. (In fact you could argue that Saddam "deserved it")  So is assassination always an evil act in terms of D&D alignment?</p></blockquote><p></p>