Please rate this NPC?

swordsmasher

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hey,
I am running a game this week, with an assassin trying to kill all the pc's. was wondering how he will stand up against them. Player 1 is a Half-Orc barbarian 3/ Half-Orc Paragon 3 / Fighter 2; and Player 2 is a Ninja 2 / Wizard 7; and Player 3 is a Bard 7. There's gonna be a lot of sneaking around, whith the assassin targeting one pc at a time, pinning the blame on another NPC (the wizard's apprentice); meanwhile stealing the dwarven Codex of Kalbar-Thos that the pc's won last week.

The assassin was built using the Trait rules from Iron Heroes (Gods bless those designers! lol) and some other books.

Assassin: Male Half-Elf Rogue 5 / Assassin 4; Init +5 (+5 Dex); AC 15 (+5 Dex); Spd 30 ft.; HP 26; Atk +13/+8 melee (1d6+Deathblade Poison, +2 Keen Rapier, Crit 15-20/x2); SQ Sneak Attack +4d6, Trapfinding, Evasion, Trap Sense +1, Uncanny Dodge, Improved Uncanny Dodge, Death Attack (DC 17), Poison Use, +2 Save vs. Poison, Immune to Sleep spells, +2 bonus on saves vs. enchantments, Low-Light Vision, Elven Blood; SV Fort +1, Ref +13, Will +3; Str 7, Dex 20, Con 8, Int 16, Wis 13, Cha 14.
Equipment: +2 Keen Rapier, Various Poisons.
Skills: Bluff +14, Climb +4, Diplomacy +4, Disable Device +15, Disguise +6, Escape Artist +11, Gather Information +16, Hide +17, Listen +8, Move Silently +17, Open Lock +17, Perform +8, Search +12, Spot +10.
Feats: Combat Expertise, Improved Feint, Urban Tracking, Weapon Finesse.
Traits: Dexterous, Intelligent.
Spells Per Day: 4/2
Spells Known: 4/3: 1st- Disguise Self, Feather Fall, True Strike, Lightfoot; 2nd- Wraithstrike, Invisibility.
 

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I say chances of a TPK are at about 75%. If the party is unaware that an assassin will be after them, then those chances increase. The assassin is two levels higher than the bard -- how fair is that? Not at all. The bard has zero chance of surviving when he gets targeted first (a sure thing).
 

actually, after the second encounter they will know there is an assassin after them. I am killing off a few of thier well known npc's first, to let them know. I am also not going for a tpk, because the way i have written it there are plenty of opportunities for him to be stopped.
 

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