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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Al" data-source="post: 468886" data-attributes="member: 2486">Re: Well, if an assassin...Whilst this may make sense for Poison Use and Death Attack, how does this work with respect to sneak attack, Uncanny Dodge and spells.Sneak attack cannot be considered necessarily evil as a lawful good rogue would have access to it.  Similarly, the lawful good rogue has Uncanny Dodge.  The assassin spell list is viable for a lawful good wizard (for the most part: some of the supplementary spells in e.g. S&S are assassin-only).Why then, in becoming non-evil, must the assassin forfeit abilities which are perfectly accessible to non-evil non-assassins?The argument could run 'to turn from a way of life', but this is an extreme case.  Whilst an assassin rising to lawful good might revile his former lifestyle, an assassin who drifts to neutral is likely to be more pragmatic: he could retain the abilities but change the lifestyle, using his skills to combat evil (or whatever).  Since the three abilities listed above are not inherently evil, there is no moral reason why a pragmatic neutral ex-assassin would not retain them.</blockquote>