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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rystil Arden" data-source="post: 2153694" data-attributes="member: 29014">This makes the assassin extremely potent, mainly the fact that the target still takes half Con damage on a successful save.  At high levels, the loss of 8 Con on a successful save (the most I can reasonably see any assassin doing) is a massive blow, dealing more than twice the damage that the sacrificed 12d6 Sneak Attack would garner on average in max HP loss, as well as lowering Fortitude save for the Improved Potency Con damage poison that the Assassin no doubt put on the Weapon.  A level 20 Fighter with 18 Con and a +5 Cloak of Resistance who gets hit with a Death Attack with a weapon coated in DC 25 Black Lotus extract will probably make his save against the Death Attack (needs a 2 if the Assassin has 18 Int) and go down to 10 Con, allowing him to make the two saves for the Black Lotus Extract on an 8.  If he fails either, average damage from the Black Lotus kills him.I'm not saying this is a bad thing, but remember that this is for a character with good Fort save.  If this kind of deadliness was your intention, you certainly succeeded <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />!</blockquote>