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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steampunkette" data-source="post: 9875272" data-attributes="member: 6796468">Fun note: That's because of traditional japanese theatre!In traditional japanese theatre you had actors wearing costumes performing on stage, you had sets and staging in the form of furniture and the like, and you had people who wore all black from head to toe that weren't part of the "Scene" but existed as stagehands.They'd come in during scenes to move furniture around, wave fans to represent winds, or otherwise do "Special Effects" for the actors.And in at least a few plays, -one- stagehand represented an assassin that you couldn't see. So you'd have the stagehands doing their thing, and then one would pull a knife and murder one of the actors and it was a big shocking moment because those guys 'didn't exist' within the conceit of the play!And that's why ninja wear black in most pop culture, even in Japan.Also you could do it as a monk or rogue archetype, or you could do it as a full standalone class even more completely, which would take notes from both monk and rogue to be 'perfect' based on fantasy tropes.</blockquote>