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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rel" data-source="post: 1363215" data-attributes="member: 99">Well, perhaps Vlad Taltos is not the best example  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> .  If I was going to follow in his footsteps, I'd:1) Be part of a criminal organization that keeps a tight control over what sorts of illegal activities go on in each member's area of control.  Anybody who is stupid and ignorant enough to break into my home by mistake is going to be somebody I can easily kill anyway.  And a professional isn't going to hit me in my home anyway.  There are rules about these things you know.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> 2) Be close personal friends with extremely powerful personages including the Heir to the Dragon Throne, the Lord of Castle Black, the (undead) Sorceress of Dzur Mountain, all of whom wield legendary Great Weapons that can eat your soul and any and all of whom would hunt down and kill anybody who did me in.  I'd sleep better at night knowing that.3) Have a paranoid familiar with a poison bite who likes to fly in the face of my enemies while I'm otherwise occupied.4) Have a wife who is also a professional assassin (though this depends on which era of Vlad's life we're talking about) who can throw a dagger with even more lethal efficiency than I can.  Also she's totally hot, but that's just a fringe benefit.5) Have a chain made of gold Phoenix Stone that negates magic cast at me and is destined to one day become a Great Weapon itself.With all that in mind, I would probably not take too many additional precautions at my home.  Then again, Dragaera is not your typical D&D setting and Vlad is not your typical D&D assassin.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> Sorry, I know that wasn't very helpful but I'm re-reading those books right now with an eye toward making a NWN module around Vlad's adventures.</blockquote>

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