Complete Adventurer Core Classes

[Doug McCrae]

See, I told you it would be ninja.

Dude, we all knew there was gonna be a ninja.

 

[Kae'Yoss]

Or you could call him an Hashishim. You know...

And make them merciless killers that are known to giggle a lot without reason and, in extrem cases, fall over?

Feh, ninjas. Why must it always be ninjas?

Hm... Because every "complete" book has an oriental class, and if you think about "roguish, oriental base class", what comes to mind? I mean, beside ninja.

They cannot really use the Rokugan ninja, since they had to make a portion of the book OGC then. The ninja was not in Oriental Adventures, but in Rokugan.

I know it was in Rokugan. I remember their reasoning back then, not to put a ninja in OA. Something about a ninja not being something you just do, you have to train for it. But I love the rokugan ninja just for the fuss the full BAB sneak attacker created Ok, that was wrong, I don't like the class just because of that.

I only hope that it won't be a "mere" rogue with arcane spellcasting.

Hm... I have a feeling that he won't be a thief WITH spells, but a thief OF spells, taking spell knowledge out of another spellcaster's reportoire.

 

[TheAuldGrump]

Hm... Because every "complete" book has an oriental class, and if you think about "roguish, oriental base class", what comes to mind? I mean, beside ninja?

Yakuza. Hatchetman. Tongs & Triads.

The Auld Grump

 

[Gez]

And make them merciless killers that are known to giggle a lot without reason and, in extrem cases, fall over?

They probably didn't used the same recipes as the current pot-smokers do... Hashishim is the root word for assassin, after all.

Just like the Thags are the origine of the word thug.

(Is Shinobi the root word for ninja?)

 

[Eremite]

I was really hoping that they'd do a remake of the assassin class from First Edition, specifically an Assassin Class that DOESN'T have spell casting.

I agree. I hope that there is a decent non-spellcasting assassin in there just as I also hope that the scout makes a good non-spellcasting ranger.

PS: Apologies for editing the quote to correct your spelling.

 

[Thanee]

Spellthief - sounds really intriguing.

Maybe something like the Spellfilcher from Complete Elf.

Especially good at detecting and circumventing magical traps and the likes.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Thanee]

Feh, ninjas. Why must it always be ninjas?

Because pirate doesn't fit the theme!

Bye
Thanee

P.S. Why doesn't pirate fit the theme, anyways?

 

[Desdichado]

I know it was in Rokugan. I remember their reasoning back then, not to put a ninja in OA. Something about a ninja not being something you just do, you have to train for it. But I love the rokugan ninja just for the fuss the full BAB sneak attacker created Ok, that was wrong, I don't like the class just because of that.

Hence the ninja-related prestige class in OA. I don't know what the problem with the Ninja class itself is, though. It's not really that different from the Unfettered from Arcana Unearthed; I remember clearly comparing the two when looking for a swashbuckler class for my homebrew.

Just like the Thags are the origine of the word thug.

Huh; according to my dictionary you're right. I had always heard that thugee was the root of thug.

 

[Gez]

Thugee is the name of the murder, not of the murderer, IIRC. (Thag itself comes from Sthagah, IIRC too.)

*Invokes Goug-el-Sirtsh, the mighty oracle*

http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/hinduism/features/thugs/

Damn. Sthaga, not Sthagah. And thuggee, not thugee.