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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 9888748" data-attributes="member: 29398">I'd have to look it up, but I seem to recall that backstrike requires the target to be unaware of your presence, which is just fancy words for 'surprised'.I've never taken that "must be from behind" part seriously when it comes to backstriking.  If the circumstances are such that you're attacking from below or above or beside or even right in front of the target, that's good enough as long as a) the target's unaware of your presence and b) you've had a chance to properly line up the strike (as opposed to just swinging as if in melee).That said, most backstrikes end up being from behind anyway as that's usually the easiest direction from which to approach unnoticed.We've had garotte as an allowable weapon proficiency for Assassins since forever, though few have chosen it.  We also have 'garotte collar' on the equipment list, for those who are paranoid about being on the receiving end of such things. <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>