[koconnor100]

The problem with assassins is that the back stabbing (sneak attack in 3E rules) and death strike (why do they call it a death strike when it only stuns, not kills ? ) are useless against high level enemeies (they're all immune to sneak attacks), reducing you to mediocre combat abilities, traps, and hopping you picked up some useful stuff for the Use Magical Device skill.

Also, at high levels, everything has true sight and can see through your stealth as well, so much for hide in plane sight.

In SoU it's great (rogue then assassin, maybe 1 level shadow dancer to get the hide in plain sight) because you finish by level 12-15.

In the OC, finishing at 15-19 , the top end monsters neutrilize too much of the rogue type abilities.

You sure you don't want a ranger with 1 level shadow dancer ? Who can duke it out like a pure fighter when the stealth stops working ? Nice suit of magical plate mail and a huge nasty vicious magical great sword stashed away in a bag of holding for emergancies ?

[ 07-25-2003, 11:57 PM: Message edited by: koconnor100 ]