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February 1983. As we step into a new year of gaming Ian Livingstone wonders what might come next. With Treasure Trap starting (or at...

Picture courtesy of Pixabay. Lately, my Saturday afternoons at the local library have become the third pillar of a massive...

You don’t have to use actual assassin stat block! So long as they use hand crossbows and wear black they will do the job. Since the role...

I like roll under systems - Dragonbane to be specific. But currently playing Household which uses d6's and has a push-your-luck...

Because the logical choice for assassins is to mind metagame concerns closely? You don't send sneaks at the party if you don't want the...

They were a rogue. Limited option on your masteries. Other have also commented on masteries being annoying. Ive messed them up as well.

If it requires bat guano, somatic, and verbal, it's not psionics. It's just a wizard or sorcerer who has a re-flavored fireball spell.

So, it then becomes an element on the "wandering damage chart". I don't know if it acted logically in this situation. If the...

Nimble sounds really awesome. I'm going back and forth on it, but the 5e table I run is perfectly fine with Tales of the Valiant. No...

Ok to make a point. I'd be really careful about this shoot and scoot stuff as an ongoing tactic. The players should be able to come...

Regarding incompetent assassins, I always think of the ending of Day of the Jackal. Most competent, dangerous assassin in literature and...

Im fine hitting hard against the party. In a world of Healing Word slitting throats of down opponents is just part of combat. But this...

This is kind of my issue with using assassin type powers against PCs as well. Suppose that they were aware the NPC they scried was an...