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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 8124068" data-attributes="member: 6704184">So, in a lot of fiction, Assassins and Spies, and lets be real, fantastical spies are basically fantastical assassins, have support personel. Sometimes it's a handler, who arranges jobs and gets you your money, keeping layers of separation between the job and the client, other times it is an engineer of specialized tools, supplying the Assassin with gear to make their job easier, and facilitating tactics that no less specialized operative would bother with. Other times, it might be a superior or mentor, or someone who the Assassin's liason to the Authority that provides motivation and justification for The Work. It occured to me today, while talking to my wife about my assassin class, that it might make sense, and provide fun gameplay, to give the class a retainer. A Noble Assassin would have a whole team working with them, providing support on a largely cosmetic/ribbon level. My preference as a DM is to allow a character with such allies to invest in them, and get more out of them as a result, but others will simply keep them on the ribbon level, just smoothing over downtime and book keeping stuff. But what do you think? Should the Assassin (and perhaps the name could be Operative instead?) have a "retainer" ribbon feature? Should I save this idea for the Marshal class, instead? Should the Fighter get retainers as they level up, along with home-base style features? Should I start working on a whole supplement that gives this sort of stuff to all classes, optionally? Am I just going wacky and none of this is a good idea?</blockquote>

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