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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jimlock" data-source="post: 5603153" data-attributes="member: 6674931">The Assassin's Death Attack is one of the most potent class abilities in the game.When a DM has created a strong Villain-Assassin for his game, there is always the threat of one or more PCs dying out of the blue.How do you deal with this?Is there a way to protect your PCs without getting "soft" on them?Can the PCs somehow thwart the death attack?I know that a lot of you (I 've got one in mind already!) are gonna argue how there are more powerful classes who can destroy a party with ease. The wizard for example is stronger than the assassin, and is capable of taking down a party even more easily. Still a wizard is not (necessarily) a cold blooded assassin. There are many ways a DM can play him it out, and still avoid the death toll. On the other hand, assassinations is what an assassin does. Therefore, if one of his targets is a party member, he can easily achieve his goal, without even showing himself. The party will never know what hit them.There is not much challenge into this for the players...How do you deal with your NPC assassins?</blockquote>