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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Reynard" data-source="post: 9863663" data-attributes="member: 467">While I do not think there is anything wrong with the scenario in the OP, I am not entirely sure what the point was. Will there be follow up attacks that try and make up for the first attack's weaknesses? (like sending 2 assassins, or getting a PC alone?)In more general terms, this wasn't actually an assassination (attempt) so much as an ambush. And I think ambushes are perfectly fair tactics by the GM in an RPG. They should still be consistent with the fiction, of course, and there is an argument to be made that they should be "fair" (that argument being a social contract one, not a mechanical one).But assassinations are another thing entirely and are probably not a good idea. Even if it makes sense in the fiction that a wronged party would hire an assassin to remove a PC, that actually happening is very like to create real problems at the table. "You all wake up in the morning and get ready to leave the inn and head out on your adventure. Except Bob. Bob, your throat was slit in the middle of the night because you failed the secret save against the poison in your ale."</blockquote>