Still invisible??

[LadyDM]

I have a player whose character is an assassin. Upon the beginning of a battle he will become invisible and "study the monster" for 3 rounds. On the 4th round he will attack, usually killing the monster. Last time we played, he did his usual thing but when he went to attack, he tripped, and stumbled and did not attack.

My question is: is he still invisible since there was no attack roll or does the intent of attacking remove the invisibility?

 

[Krelios]

I have a player whose character is an assassin. Upon the beginning of a battle he will become invisible and "study the monster" for 3 rounds. On the 4th round he will attack, usually killing the monster. Last time we played, he did his usual thing but when he went to attack, he tripped, and stumbled and did not attack.

My question is: is he still invisible since there was no attack roll or does the intent of attacking remove the invisibility?

If he didn't attack, he didn't attack--he's still invisible.

 

[mikebr99]

Last time we played, he did his usual thing but when he went to attack, he tripped, and stumbled and did not attack.

My question is: is he still invisible since there was no attack roll or does the intent of attacking remove the invisibility?

He's still invisibile... and his friends are ROTFLTAO.

Was there something special lying around to actually try and trip him? Or do you have some kind of two left feet house rules?


Mike

 

[irdeggman]

I was wondering about that reason for tripping myself. If you are using the critical miss variant rules (or something similar) then he is indeed invisible since he while he was attacking (it does not say anywhere that the attack must be successful) he tripped or something similar.

 

[Joshua Randall]

I believe that to use his death attack, the assassin's target must be aware of the assassin but not perceive him as a threat. So the invisibility trick wouldn't work.

 

[Jeff Wilder]

I believe that to use his death attack, the assassin's target must be aware of the assassin but not perceive him as a threat. So the invisibility trick wouldn't work.

Nope. There's a reason "Hide" is on the assassin's class skills list. Invisibility would work fine.

 

[ARandomGod]

I believe that to use his death attack, the assassin's target must be aware of the assassin but not perceive him as a threat. So the invisibility trick wouldn't work.

No, the victim completely does not have to be aware of the assassin. Man, that *would* make it more difficult!