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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 1401661" data-attributes="member: 1465">This is from the SRD:While studying the victim, the assassin can undertake other actions so long as his attention stays focused on the target and the target does not detect the assassin or recognize the assassin as an enemy.Admittedly, a DM could rule that casting a spell is enough to make the assassin stop staying focused, for example on the basis that it requires concentration. Anyway, the "study" doesn't require any action itself.I would instead tend to very much allow the PC to cast it, as long as I could picture the assassin being watching the victim all the time, and the victim is not succeeding any Listen/Spot check against him: if he is hiding and doesn't move (in which he would probably need another Hide check against the victim's Spot check) the victim is not going to see him, and if he doesn't make noise the victim is not going to hear him. The same would happen if the victim was granted a Listen/Spot check but failed it.As a matter of fact, I think the tactic is creative enough (and doesn't come for free) to be rewarded. He still has to succeed his first Hide check or otherwise be undetectable OR unrecognized as an enemy, which means that it's not going to happen at every single battle.</blockquote>