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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kerrick" data-source="post: 469536" data-attributes="member: 4722">For anyone who cares...--DMG, p 27.   Anyway... I rather agree with the other people on this thread. I see no reason why the assassin would suddenly lose the knowledge required to use poison or perform a killing blow. In those cases, I would think it's more an active willingness to turn one's back on one's past, like someone mentioned, but even then it makes little sense. I don't think assassins have to be evil; what about those who were raised as assassins, and killing is all they know, but they aren't cold-blooded killers? Are they evil? I don't think they guy who does his job cleanly and professionally, but doesn't take any enjoyment from it, would be evil (at least not totally.. he might be LN or N with evil leanings...).    However, if the assassin "had a change of heart" and shifted to neutral or good alignment, that would imply that he wishes to leave his past behind, and he would not, in any logical sense, wish to employ "those evil abilities". My recommendation - make the ranger LN. His intense hatred hobgoblins, coupled with his zealous hunting of them, has resulted in him becoming an assassin. He doesn't realize this, however, and so does not gain ALL of the class abilities (specifically, the spell use - it would be a little hard to justify that in this sense). Instead, I'd either cut that out (never saw the point in giving asssasins spells in the first place) or replace it with something else. Or, since he IS non-evil, you could make the class abilities employable only against hobgoblins, but again that would be a little difficult to swing. Just my two cents. <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>

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