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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 9892003" data-attributes="member: 508">In today's "Down to Erthe" game session, the PCs:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Were sent to take out everyone working in two side-by-side businesses, a pawn shop and a bar, which were fronts for a rival guild of rogues and assassins; the PCs' Guildmaster had just survived an assassination attempt by this rival guild and he wanted them all slain</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Split into two groups, with the men (human monk, changeling rogue, and mongrelfolk adept) entering to the bar and the women (human scout and snow fox hengeyokai wu jen) entering the pawn shop</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Got the sole pawn shop customer to leave (by paying him 5 gp to skedaddle), as the pawn shop owner's guard dog came out from behind the front counter and attacked the hengeyokai, who smelled like a fox</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Took out the guard dog and the pawn shop owner (a human assassin), then found a secret door leading into a hidden area behind the pawnshop</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Slew the four human rogues and the human barmaid in the bar (all of whom were members of the rival guild), locked the front door, and headed into a back area through a locked door (using a key taken from the bartender's ring)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Encountered additional troops: a pair of human rogues on the other side of the secret door from the pawn shop, and two private rooms behind the bar, each holding human and elf rogues and assassins; managed to kill them all without any casualties on their part</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Had the women go through the door the guards were flanking, to find an elf assassin training almost a dozen elf and human assassins, who all charged the intruders, surrounding the scout</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Had the men find a secret door in the rear of one of the private rooms, allowing them to come to the women PCs' aid (in a rather timely fashion)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Took out half of the remaining troops, while a pair of staggered assassins ran to the back to wake the remaining rogues and assassins, who came to the rescue of their beleaguered compatriots</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Eventually managed to take out the remaining foes, while a lone rogue exited a safehouse room in the back, saw the massacre, and fled through the secret door to the private meeting room behind the bar, seeking to escape</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Chased down the visiting rogue, finally catching up to him after he'd escaped out into the streets of the city and tried escaping down an alley</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Finally took him down with a magic missile, after he'd been shot twice with crossbow bolts and slammed by the monk's spiked chain</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Dragged him back inside, stripped the places and corpses of valuables, then reported their success back to their own guild, the Silent Sodality (believed by the people of the city to be a philanthropic organization, an image the Guildmaster works hard to foster)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Were paid a 5,000 gp per PC bonus for jobs well done in taking out the rival guild</li> </ul>Despite assassin being a prestige class in 3.5, I used a 20-level assassin character class Mongoose Publishing came out with in the early days of 3E.  The PCs are all 4th level, and they were up against 1st- and 2nd-level assassins and rogues in training, under the tutelage of a 5th-level assassin and a visiting 5th-level rogue.Johnathan</blockquote>

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