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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sunseeker" data-source="post: 5829916">Save-or-die mechanics should be rare and powerful.The gogon's gaze turns you to stone.  There's a good save or die mechanic.I think your main problem with the assassin is thinking of what they accomplish, instead of how they go about doing it.  Comparing to real life, an assassin has to carefully study their enemy, sneak up on them, poison their food, lure them into some unsafe location.  All the while they have to remain covert and must work hard to keep the blame of the inevitable death off their hands.No assassin is going to be able to be tossing around precision strikes to the jugular/heart/ect in the middle of combat.  Especially if it's against a foe that the assassin was unprepared for.  I mean he MIGHT get the best of the evil wizard during combat that the group has been trailing for months, he might be able to get one of the guards at an outpost.  But he's not going to be tossing around save-or-die on every opponent.For the assassin to get a save-or-die strike, I think he'd need to fulfill at least these 3 requirements:Familiarity with target to a very high level.  This means they have to know the weak points of the species, their day-to-day activities, ect...Subtlety: the assassin must go unnoticed at all times, either through subterfuge and disguise or good-old-fashioned stealth.  No "stealthing" during the daytime, gotta have shadows, corners, outcroppings, ect..Precision: the assassin must be able to deliver their killing blow exactly at a certain time, at a certain point without mistake.Honestly, I think that those considerations are too high to allow the assassin to have any sort of save-or-die powers or abilities on a regular basis.  And as above, if a single class, or all classes are tossing out save-or-die mechanics on a regular basis, I think it's going to seriously kill the awesome power that such mechanics are supposed to hold.</blockquote>

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