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<blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 7409351" data-attributes="member: 6801845">[EDIT: I goofed on my answer. You get advantage (and hence sneak attack) for striking before the target has acted.&nbsp; You get an automatic critical only if they are also surprised]If you crit you always reroll all dice.&nbsp; An assassin has a special ability that if they go before someone else it's always at advantage <s>and always considered a critical</s> and is a critical if the target is also surprised.&nbsp; So for an assassin with a shortsword, it would be 1d6 weapon, 2d6 sneak (which they get because they have advantage) and 1d6 force.&nbsp; So with sneak attack but no critical 4d6, with the critical 8d6.Which yes, is powerful but it's only 1 turn and 1 attack.&nbsp; At 5th level the fighter will be able to do two attacks per round, or four attacks per round with an action surge.&nbsp; Throw in battle master and you can also add in a superiority die or two.&nbsp; The assassin is slightly more powerful than other classes at that specific level, others will catch up or have different capabilities.&nbsp; Just wait until you have a monk running around stunning everything if you think the assassin is annoying.&nbsp; <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Oofta, post: 7409351, member: 6801845"] [EDIT: I goofed on my answer. You get advantage (and hence sneak attack) for striking before the target has acted. You get an automatic critical only if they are also surprised] If you crit you always reroll all dice. An assassin has a special ability that if they go before someone else it's always at advantage [S]and always considered a critical[/S] and is a critical if the target is also surprised. So for an assassin with a shortsword, it would be 1d6 weapon, 2d6 sneak (which they get because they have advantage) and 1d6 force. So with sneak attack but no critical 4d6, with the critical 8d6. Which yes, is powerful but it's only 1 turn and 1 attack. At 5th level the fighter will be able to do two attacks per round, or four attacks per round with an action surge. Throw in battle master and you can also add in a superiority die or two. The assassin is slightly more powerful than other classes at that specific level, others will catch up or have different capabilities. Just wait until you have a monk running around stunning everything if you think the assassin is annoying. :) [/QUOTE]

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