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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fenris-77" data-source="post: 7920755" data-attributes="member: 6993955">Back to the class at hand for a moment. I quite like both the extended crit range and bleeds as class features - they're on point and flavorful, as are shrouds. I think it's worth taking a moment to talk specifically about the mechanical implementation of those ideas though. We've spoken at least somewhat about how the rules we've got index a particular kind of mobile playstyle, which is cool and I like it, but what we haven't talked about is triggers and conditions for the abilities, at least not specifically.The idea of extended crit range could just be cribbed from the Champion, so extend it at 3rd to 19-20 and then at some later level to 18-20. That's cool, but it isn't tasty (i.e. lacks flavor). If we want to weave the abilities together better we have a bunch of different ways we could gate and extend the crit range. First, we could gate behind advantage, which would encourage tactical play. Second, we could gate behind shrouds, which brings up some interesting choices about converting the shroud for damage or leaving in place for crits. Third, we could gate it behind the bleeds, which also plays nicely into encouraging tactical play.If we want to gate behind advantage, we should probably consider how the class might manufacture advantage, since relying solely on other characters seems a little out of place.If we want to gate crit range behind shrouds we need to build that decision point firmly into the base shroud rules.If we want to gate behind bleeds we need to account for the notion that an assassin should be able kill a low power target without having to run around waiting for it to bleed to death.There is another option - what if we gated an extension to the crit range behind all of the above? So attacking with advantage gets you to 19-20. Advantage and a shroud to 18-20, and advantage, shroud and bleed to 17-20? That seems like an interesting way to encourage the player to use all the tools in his toolbox. It also provides some interesting scaling since you wouldn't need all three to deal with mooks, but you would for bigger harder targets, and that makes a certain amount of intuitive sense, at least to me.</blockquote>

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