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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nagol" data-source="post: 5784256" data-attributes="member: 23935">It depends on the campaign.for most "traditional" D&D campaigns, I don't like either.As a class Assassin is too focused and should, by rights not be engaged in general dungeon-crawling and treasure collecting; he should be out acquiring contracts and killing people.  If we're looking at the abiliities the class offers rather than the role the class should fill then frankly it's a odd version of other prestige classes clumped together with limited value.The Monk class is a jack-of-al-trades with limited niche protection by doing a particular thing moderately well that everyone else sucks at, but everyone else uses different methods to achieve the same result better.Assassin can shine in specific campaign styles (civilised anthromorphic-centric with heavy intrigue and/or covert action).Monks are one of the go-to classes (the other is Bard) for very small player groups where having a couple of JoaTs can be preferable to having two specialists.</blockquote>