Bastoche said:
Not sure if this is the right place to post this. Felt it didn't belong in the rules forum.
Suppose I want a person dead. Suppose it's a 14ish level NPC who has intimate relations with one (or many) high level NPCs (let's say a 20th level or more wizard that may or may not want to participate in the following investigation). Let's say I hire 5 10thish level assassins.
How much would it cost? Please justify. In role playing terms rather than d20, 3.5 whatever rules preferable.
There's a system already written for just this question. Mystic Eye Games'
Guilds and Adventurers has an assassin group called the Lottery. They take money from anyone who wants to see a person dead. As more money comes in on that person's head, he rises on the guild's "Lottery Rankings Chart". This chart shows what rank a hit is, what level assassin (or what EL group of assassins) is likely to hunt him, what the payoff is for the mark's death, and the fee that the guild takes out for a successful hit. To determine the total amount of gold spent on a mark, you add the payoff and guild fee together.
So, to answer your question (according to this chart), we start with the NPCs' gear value--45,000gp. To determine his rank, we find this amount under the payoff column. Here's the chart's breakdown for that area...
Lottery Rank -- Assassin Level -- Payoff (gp) -- Guild Fee (gp)
35 -- 14 -- 47,200 -- 11,800
36 -- 13 -- 44,000 -- 11,000
So if your assassin(s) is not part of a guild, we'd take the average of the sum of the last two columns to see how much the job would cost = 57,000 gp. To maintain an appropriate EL of 14, scale back the number of 10th level assassins (of whatever classes) to 4. Thus, each assassin gets 14,250 gp for the kill (assuming they don't try to kill each other after the job is done to increase their share of gold
).
