Fixing the Assassin

Warbringer

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Okay, so it assumes it needs fixing.

With advent of the beguiler and the duskblade I got to thinking, should the assassin get access to thier whole spell list? rather than 'learnt' spells.

Is this too much?
 

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OK, instead of threadcrapping, how about we just concede that there are people who like the WotC spellusing assassin and those that don't?

The OP is talking about tweaking the WotC one.
 

Warbringer said:
With advent of the beguiler and the duskblade I got to thinking, should the assassin get access to thier whole spell list? rather than 'learnt' spells.

Is this too much?

Nope, not too much at all.
 

Warbringer said:
Should the assassin get access to thier whole spell list? rather than 'learnt' spells.

Is this too much?
Are you including Assassin spells from Spell Compendium and other sources? If so, I vote "No." That's too many spells.

However, Spell Compendium has some fantastic Assassin spells. I wouldn't want to limit a player to just the spells in the PHB.
 

smootrk said:
Funny, I would have thought that a non-magical assassin would be the 'fix'. But that just my own opinion.
Same here.

Maybe just have "Death Attack" and "Poison Use" as feats that Rogues can meet the requirements for...
 


How about a new variant class, perhaps mixing the Warlock with the Rogue, gaining Death Attack at level ten after five gainings of sneak attack? Instead of their own list, they have various invocations they can learn, and perhaps instead of warlock style specials they gain specials such as sneak attack, evasion, stealth / tracking based specials, and so forth.
 

Two five-level prestige classes. One with death attack and maybe good BAB, the other with mystical abilities, hide in plain sight, and/or spell use.

It makes sense that a dedicated assassin in a magical world would seek to use magic to make themselves more effective killers, but give players the option, I say.

Call the magic assassin "nightstalker" or something.
 

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