Popertop
2011-01-02, 01:02 AM
When you think of an assassin, what comes to mind?
I'm throwing around a few different approaches in my mind,
a few character concepts.
For a wizard assassin, I'm sure there are many ways to do it,
so I won't even start, suffice it to say he might come up
with a spell that combines dispelling and a lethal attack.
(flat SoD doesn't really jive with the concept, I wanted to have a
more creative feel, not just OP magical happening)
For a bard assassin, things get a little tricky.
Is there a way to do it only using bard-like classes?
The concept I have is those assassins from Kung Fu Hustle
that play their instrument and kill people, I kinda wanna do that,
but with like a violinist instead. The duke has parties, and
people inexplicably end up dead.
Another bard one, someone who carries around a
voodoo doll that they can change to the likeness of the
person they want to kill by modifying its clothing
to match what they are wearing. He then puts a needle
through the heart of the voodoo doll and the person
has a heart attack. I really have no idea where to
begin on this one.
Another one I have is the monk assassin.
Now before you get onto me about the monk,
it doesn't actually need levels in monk,
only the martial artist feel/unarmed damage.
One trick with monk levels is pouring contact
poison all over myself and making a bunch of
touch attacks, but I don't know if that fits
the flavor in my head of an eastern influenced
shogun type that can actually do his fighting himself
(when he needs to, he likes to keep up the illusion
that he needs his bodyguards). Plus, I was hoping
to discover something I hadn't thought of.
Druid assassin for the lolz.
For all of these, I want to try and avoid levels in assassin,
unless absolutely necessary or particularly useful/powerful
I'm throwing around a few different approaches in my mind,
a few character concepts.
For a wizard assassin, I'm sure there are many ways to do it,
so I won't even start, suffice it to say he might come up
with a spell that combines dispelling and a lethal attack.
(flat SoD doesn't really jive with the concept, I wanted to have a
more creative feel, not just OP magical happening)
For a bard assassin, things get a little tricky.
Is there a way to do it only using bard-like classes?
The concept I have is those assassins from Kung Fu Hustle
that play their instrument and kill people, I kinda wanna do that,
but with like a violinist instead. The duke has parties, and
people inexplicably end up dead.
Another bard one, someone who carries around a
voodoo doll that they can change to the likeness of the
person they want to kill by modifying its clothing
to match what they are wearing. He then puts a needle
through the heart of the voodoo doll and the person
has a heart attack. I really have no idea where to
begin on this one.
Another one I have is the monk assassin.
Now before you get onto me about the monk,
it doesn't actually need levels in monk,
only the martial artist feel/unarmed damage.
One trick with monk levels is pouring contact
poison all over myself and making a bunch of
touch attacks, but I don't know if that fits
the flavor in my head of an eastern influenced
shogun type that can actually do his fighting himself
(when he needs to, he likes to keep up the illusion
that he needs his bodyguards). Plus, I was hoping
to discover something I hadn't thought of.
Druid assassin for the lolz.
For all of these, I want to try and avoid levels in assassin,
unless absolutely necessary or particularly useful/powerful