Why an Assassins hand book?

[Scott814thmpco]

Hi-
Just catching up on my daily dose of the EN message boards when I came across a thread in the publishers d20 section talking about the release of an assassins hand book.
First of all, it should not be that hard to come up with an Assassin
core class and its relitive guild affiliations, the first edition AD&D book pretty much explained such.
Now a company comes out with a 64 page book dedicated to the assassin class.
If its a good product fine, if its a bad product, oh well. My question to the community at large is this:
are people buying each and every product that comes out for d20?
Just wondering.


Scott

 

[Crothian]

There's no way I can get each an every d20 product. I don't buy modules. Too many, too hard to tell quality. I do buy a lot of the source books. THis one should be good. Green Ronin does go into great depth and I trust they can really come up with some very interesting ideas for the Assassin.

 

[Krug]

No that's be impossible, even just for supplements. I don't think most people would buy every d20 product. There's far too much of it.

And Assassins have always been popular. Not everyone has time to create rules for it. The fact that it's from Green Ronin bears a stamp of quality on the product.

 

[Napftor]

While I buy MANY of the d20 products, I'm not independantly wealthy enough to buy all of them. As stated above, Green Ronin's name on the book lends it credibility in many departments. This book might find more buyers than you would think simply because most companies aren't doing this kind of thing. At least, I don't think they are...?

 

[Nightfall]

Or at least not always as well as Green Ronin. I do think the Necromancy book they did wasn't as good as some of their earlier stuff, but DEFINATELY worth getting if you want a REALLY kick ass villian or even NPC.

 

[Limper]

Its written by David "Zeb" Cook isn't it? That's enough reason for me.

 

[JESawyer]

People need an assassin's handbook so that their Black Shadow Man can kill people in new and original ways with poisons no one has heard of. That is, until everyone has the assassin's handbook, and all of their Black Shadow Men can be identical clones of each other, wielding Shadowvein shortswords +3 dipped in Gahlia's Dread Venom of 1,000 Stings.

Or maybe I'm just a little cynical.

 

[Nightfall]

You're just cynical.

 

[Psion]

Its written by David "Zeb" Cook isn't it? That's enough reason for me.

After seeing the mechanical implementation of SCON, I would be more than a little dubious.

Not to mention I dislike the idea of a core assassin. I was so glad to hear that the core assassin that was in the playtest docs had been moved to PrC status.

 

[Scott814thmpco]

Hi-
First off, I am not a fan of David zeb cooks work, I did not care for the way he handled AD&D2e nor Spelljammer. yup I am an old 1E grognard who has converted to 3e, pass the ammo and praise the lord.
Personally, I prefer to keep Assassins in the NPC only realm becouse what is so heroic or positive about playing a cold blooded killer?


Scott