Death Attack stacks?

[Particle_Man]

In Complete Warrior there is a Dark Hunter prestige class that has a Death Attack ability similar to the Assassin’s in the DMG. If there is a Rogue5/Dark Hunter5/Assassin 10 who performs a death attack upon a victim (assume the victim is not somehow immune to death attacks), what happens?

a) The victim must make a save vs. death attack vs. a DC of 10 + Int bonus + 15 (5 lvls of DH, 10 lvls of Assassin)
b) The victim must make a save vs. death attack vs. a DC of 10 + Int bonus + 10 (10 lvls of Assassin only; the 5 lvls of DH don’t stack)
c) The victim must make two saves vs. death attack – one vs. a DC of 10 + Int bonus + 10 (10 lvls of Assassin) and another vs. a DC of 10 + Int bonus + 5 (5 lvls of DH).
d) No character can have both the Dark Hunter and Assassin prestige classes.
e) Other.

 

[Crothian]

Personally, I'd go with A. I think they would stack.

 

[Nightfall]

I prefer d unless there's an extremely compelling reason.

 

[Grazzt]

I believe, much like sneak attack, that they would stack.

 

[Crothian]

I prefer d unless there's an extremely compelling reason.

Why wouldn't you allow someone to have both classes? Flovor wise they seem to fit together pretty well.

 

[Nightfall]

A) Dark Stalker, seems to be a non-evil Pr-class. Assassin are.
B) While they do work about the same it would seem to me most assassin prefer to hunt in cities. Easily to hide in a sewer than a tree.
C) I usually don't run evil campaigns.

 

[dark2112]

Artemis Entreri is a good example of an assassin in a DnD setting who left the cities (if only temporarily) to go into the woods. He also had something of an alignment drift during the development of his character. Perhaps this hypothetical Dark Stalker/Assassin was an assassin first, then repented his evil ways and became a Dark Stalker, but still kept his old skills... And to help symbolize this internal change, he decided to move to a new place to sever all his old evil ties (ie - the woods).

 

[MichaelH]

It's the same ability, so it should stack in the same way your sneak attack ability stacks with the rogue and assassin levels. I would go with "a."