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<blockquote data-quote="Mark Chance" data-source="post: 1037976" data-attributes="member: 2795"><p>All generalizations are ultimately false.</p><p></p><p>As I've already mentioned at least twice, I designed for <u>Path of Shadow</u> the ossorus, an assassin-like PrC the alignment requirement of which is to be either lawful neutral, lawful good, or neutral good. The same book also contains the royal assassin, which can be of any non-evil alignment.</p><p></p><p>I also have a home-brew 20 level core class in my campaign which is assassin-like and must be either lawful good or neutral good called the shadowrunner. One of my players has been running this class for a while now, and things are going well. Here's some fluff text from the shadowrunner:</p><p></p><p><span style="color: skyblue">The unending war between light and darkness requires soldiers. For a soldier to fight his enemy effectively, he must know his enemy's strengths and weaknesses. To learn those strengths and weaknesses, he relies on spies. When that spy is in the service of light, she is sometimes a shadowrunner. Shadowrunners train their bodies and minds for action in enemy territory, moving in cognito among the very evil they oppose on missions of intelligence, sabotage, theft, and even assassination. Her talents encompass both the magical and martial.</span></p><p></p><p>Obviously, it is not only possible for a campaign to include non-evil assassin-like characters; it is also a fact that some campaigns do just that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mark Chance, post: 1037976, member: 2795"] All generalizations are ultimately false. As I've already mentioned at least twice, I designed for [u]Path of Shadow[/u] the ossorus, an assassin-like PrC the alignment requirement of which is to be either lawful neutral, lawful good, or neutral good. The same book also contains the royal assassin, which can be of any non-evil alignment. I also have a home-brew 20 level core class in my campaign which is assassin-like and must be either lawful good or neutral good called the shadowrunner. One of my players has been running this class for a while now, and things are going well. Here's some fluff text from the shadowrunner: [COLOR=skyblue]The unending war between light and darkness requires soldiers. For a soldier to fight his enemy effectively, he must know his enemy's strengths and weaknesses. To learn those strengths and weaknesses, he relies on spies. When that spy is in the service of light, she is sometimes a shadowrunner. Shadowrunners train their bodies and minds for action in enemy territory, moving in cognito among the very evil they oppose on missions of intelligence, sabotage, theft, and even assassination. Her talents encompass both the magical and martial.[/COLOR] Obviously, it is not only possible for a campaign to include non-evil assassin-like characters; it is also a fact that some campaigns do just that. [/QUOTE]
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