Re: Non-Evil Assassins

On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 12:24:15 -0800, "Malachias Invictus"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
>"Hong Ooi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 14:49:30 +0000, Mark Buckley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >Brian wrote:
>> >
>> >> I mean, there must be assassins who work in the name of good somewhere,
>> >> right? Gotta bump off those evil leaders and such, you know. Aside from
>> >> rule-zeroing the prestige class, has anyone else come up with other
>ideas
>> >> for a non-evil assassin?
>> >
>> >There is a Prestige Class in the Book of Exalted Deeds that is a
>> >non-evil Assassin, I think (don't have book handy I'm afraid).
>>
>> Slayer of Domiel. To be precise, it's a lawful good assassin.
>>
>> The book also has good poisons, good diseases, and good undead. It's all a
>> bit surreal.
>
>I found it pretty silly (well, except for the positive energy undead - that
>was nifty).

IMO, if they wanted to emulate the "transcendent being" theme -- "strike me
down, and I will become more powerful than you can ever imagine", etc --
they should have made it an outsider template. The monk already becomes an
outsider on reaching 20th level, so there's a sort of precedent.


-- 
Hong Ooi                              | "Why do you stalk me?"
[EMAIL PROTECTED]                  |    -- BJM
http://www.zipworld.com.au/~hong/dnd/ |
Sydney, Australia                     |