Skilled Assassin (3.5e Class)

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"if it moves, i can kill it."-Kairos Dormeś

This Assassin has mastered killing in its Entirety nothing can escape it. If Killing is an art, then you are its painter, and your weapons are the brushes 20 1 Moderate Good Good Poor Sneak Attack Spontaneous Arcane Spellcasting Full

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Assassin

“

Blood will always be on our hands, yes ours, both yours and mine, i just change the degree.

”

These Assassin are trained from a young age either by a Brotherhood or lone teacher and are taught the art of killing. Before even obtaining the title of Master, they must undergo rigorous physical trails, painful weapon training, unparalleled studies, acts of stealth, extremely deadly poison making, mastering traps and all their machinations,tireless spellcasting, and endless anatomy lessons of all beings and creatures. After all the lessons and trials they must take their first life, no help, no failures accepted, once completed they earn the title Assassin. They continue taking lives over and over until the time comes they reach maturity.

At maturity, they have a final task before earning the title of Master. An impossible task tailored to their weaknesses and strengths, and when they complete it, they submerge their bodies in the shadows and darkness. When they emerge full fledged beings of the dark, able to traverse the shadows they gain the title Master Assassin.

Making a Skilled Assassin

Abilities: Intelligence is the hallmark of a Skilled assassin that separates him for the killers for hire associated with his title, Dexterity for his reflexes and Maneuverability, and Strength for His Athletic skills and damage.

Races: Any

Alignment: Any

Starting Gold: 6d4 x 10 gp (150 gp)

Starting Age: As Rogue

Table: The Skilled Assassin

Hit Die: d8

Level	Base Attack Bonus	Saving Throws			Special	Spells per Day
		Fort	Ref	Will		0	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th
1st	+0	+2	+2	+0	Unarmed Strike, Personal Immunity, Lethal Strike +1d6,	2	—	—	—	—	—	—
2nd	+1	+3	+3	+0	Uncanny Dodge, Shadow Vision	3	0	—	—	—	—	—
3rd	+2	+3	+3	+1	Modus Operandi, Lethal Strike +2d6	3	1	—	—	—	—	—
4th	+3	+4	+4	+1	Hide in Plain Sight, Trapfinder	3	2	0	—	—	—	—
5th	+3	+4	+4	+1	Cloak of Discretion, Lethal Strike +3d6	3	3	1	—	—	—	—
6th	+4	+5	+5	+2	Palm Weapon	3	3	2	—	—	—	—
7th	+5	+5	+5	+2	Blur, Lethal Strike +4d6	3	3	2	0	—	—	—
8th	+6/+1	+6	+6	+2	Blink	3	3	3	1	—	—	—
9th	+6/+1	+6	+6	+3	Improved Uncanny Dodge, Lethal Strike +5d6	3	3	3	2	—	—	—
10th	+7/+2	+7	+7	+3	Weakening Critical	3	3	3	2	0	—	—
11th	+8/+3	+7	+7	+3	Poisonmaster, Lethal Strike +6d6	3	3	3	3	1	—	—
12th	+9/+4	+8	+8	+4	Paralyzing Strike	3	3	3	3	2	—	—
13th	+9/+4	+8	+8	+4	New School of Magic, Lethal Strike +7d6	3	3	3	3	2	0	—
14th	+10/+5	+9	+9	+4	Nerve of the killer	3	3	3	3	3	1	—
15th	+11/+6/+1	+9	+9	+5	Killer's Proof, Lethal Strike +8d6	3	3	3	3	3	2	—
16th	+12/+7/+2	+10	+10	+5	Exotic Method	3	3	3	3	3	2	0
17th	+12/+7/+2	+10	+10	+5	Phantom Sight, Lethal Strike +9d6	3	3	3	3	3	3	1
18th	+13/+8/+3	+11	+11	+6	Wounding Critical	3	3	3	3	3	3	2
19th	+14/+9/+4	+11	+11	+6	Exotic Method, Lethal Strike +10d6	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
20th	+15/+10/+5	+12	+12	+6	Killing Strike	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
Class Skills (6 + Int modifier per level, ×4 at 1st level) Balance (Dex), Bluff (Cha), Climb (Str), Concentration (Con), Craft (Int), Diplomacy (Cha), Disable Device (Int), Disguise (Cha), Gather Information (Cha), Hide (Dex), Intimidate (Cha), Jump (Str), Knowledge (all skills, taken individually) (Int), Listen (Wis) Move Silently (Dex), Perform (Cha), Profession (Wis), Search (Int), Sense Motive (Wis), Sleight of Hand (Dex), Spellcraft (Int), Spot (Wis), Survival (Wis), Swim (Str), Tumble (Dex), Use Magic Device (Cha).

Class Features

All of the following are class features of the Assassin.

Weapon and Armor Proficiency: Assassins are proficient with all Light Weapons, as well as simple weapons, shortbow and composite shortbow, repeating crossbows, and hand crossbows. At first level, an Assassin gains proficiency with one Exotic Weapon of her choice. Assassins are proficient with Light Armor and Medium Armor but not with shields.

Spellcasting: The Assassin is an Arcane Spellcaster with the same spells per day and spells known progression as a Bard, except that he gains no more than three spell slots per level. An Assassin’s spells known may be chosen from the Sorcerer/Wizard list, and must be from the schools of Divination, Illusion, or Necromancy. To cast an Assassin spell, she must have an Intelligence at least equal to 10 + the Spell level.

Spells:

Table: Assassin Spells Known

Level	Spells Known
	0	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th
1st	4	—	—	—	—	—	—
2nd	5	2	—	—	—	—	—
3rd	6	3	—	—	—	—	—
4th	6	3	2	—	—	—	—
5th	6	4	3	—	—	—	—
6th	6	4	3	—	—	—	—
7th	6	4	4	2	—	—	—
8th	6	4	4	3	—	—	—
9th	6	4	4	3	—	—	—
10th	6	4	4	4	2	—	—
11th	6	4	4	4	3	—	—
12th	6	4	4	4	3	—	—
13th	6	4	4	4	4	2	—
14th	6	4	4	4	4	3	—
15th	6	4	4	4	4	3	—
16th	6	4	4	4	4	4	2
17th	6	4	4	4	4	4	3
18th	6	4	4	4	4	4	3
19th	6	4	4	4	4	4	4
20th	6	4	4	4	4	4	4

Poison Use: An Assassin may prepare, apply, and use poison without any chance of poisoning herself.

Monster Knowledge: A Skilled Assassin may have multiple types of targets and so, is trained to kill all types of creatures and gains all creature knowledge.

Unarmed Strike (Ex): The Assassin shows his Talent for the art of combat, even so far as to prove her hands as deadly weapons. A 1st level the Skilled Assassin gains Improved Unarmed Strike, if she already has this feat she make pick another. Unarmed strikes deal lethal damage, but she can choose to deal nonlethal damage instead with no penalty on her attack roll. She has the same choice to deal lethal or nonlethal damage while grappling.

A Skilled Assassins unarmed strike is treated both as a manufactured weapon and a natural weapon for the purpose of spells and effects that enhance or improve either manufactured weapons or natural weapons.

Lethal Strike (Ex): An Assassin may spend a full-round action to study an opponent who hasn't noticed the Assassin or unable to defend himself effectively from her attack. If she does so, her next attack is a Lethal Strike if she makes it within 2 rounds. A Lethal Strike inflicts 1d6 + her Int modifer at first level and 1d6 + Int mod extra every 2 levels after. Special attacks such as a coup de grace may be a Lethal Strike. Assassins are well trained in eliminating magical or distant opponents, and do not have to meet the stringent requirements of a sneak attack, though if a character has both sneak attack and death attack, they stack if the character meets the requirements of both. An Assassin may load a crossbow simultaneously with his action to study his target if he has a Base Attack Bonus of +1 or more.

At 7th level, if the Assassin studies an opponent to perform a Lethal Strike, she can make a full attack during the next round where every attack inflicts Lethal Strike damage as long as the target was denied their Dexterity bonus to AC against the first attack in the full attack action.

Personal Immunity (Ex): At Level 1 A Skilled Assassin gains Poison Immunity against poison of DC>15. Additionally at levels 5 the DC raises to DC>17, 7 DC>19, and 12 the DC becomes DC>21 . At level 14, an Assassin becomes immune to all poisons.

Uncanny Dodge (Ex): Starting at 2nd level, an Assassin can react to danger before his senses would normally allow him to do so. He retains her Dexterity bonus to AC (if any) even if she is caught flat-footed or struck by an invisible attacker. However, he still loses her Dexterity bonus to AC if immobilized. If an Assassin already has uncanny dodge from a different class he automatically gains improved uncanny dodge (see below) instead.

Shadow Vision (Su): All assassins train in darkness due to their affinity with the shadows. As a result, an assassin gains low-light vision. If he already has low-light vision, he may choose to gain darkvision with a range of 60 feet or to double the effectiveness of his low-light vision. If he already has darkvision and low-light vision, he may instead choose to retain a semblance of color in his darkvision.

Modus Operandi (Ex): At 3rd level Assassin gains a personalized method of elimination: Any Feats Gained are gained regardless of perquisite.

• Archer: Assassin gains point blank shot. at level 7 he gains rapid shot. at level 11 he gains manyshot. at level 16 he gains Swarm of arrows

• Twin Grip: Assassin gains Two Weapon Fighting. at level 7 he gains improved two weapon fighting. at level 11, he gains Whirlwind attack. at level 16 he gains two weapon rend.

• Thrower: Assassin can throw any weapon +10 feet. at level 7 +20 feet. at level 11 +30 feet and any weapon thrown can blink back to the assassins hand if its still within 100 feet. at level 16 +40 feet.

• Duelist: Assassin gains +2 to hit chance if he uses a light weapon in one hand and no weapon in the other. +4 at level 7 and gains Power attack. +6 at level 11 and gains Cleave. +8 at level 16 and gains Great Cleave.

Hide in Plain Sight (Ex): A 4th level Assassin can hide in unusual locations, and may hide in areas without cover or concealment without penalty. An Assassin may even hide while being observed. This ability does not remove the -10 penalty for moving at full speed, or the -20 penalty for running or fighting.

Trapfinding (Ex): As the 3.5 rogue.

Cloak of Discretion (Su): At 5th level, an Assassin is protected by a constant Nondetection effect, with a caster level equal to his character level.

Palm Weapon (Ex): At 6th level, the Assassin learns to conceal weapons with supernatural skill. Any weapon successfully concealed with Sleight of Hand cannot be found with divination magic.

Blur (Sp): At 7th level the assassin can Blur as a spell like Ability, once per round.

Blink (Sp): At 8th level, A Blink is similar to a teleport; however, it only affects the assassin and any gear on his person. Whenever the assassin Blinks, he disappears from his current location, travels through the Shadow Plane, and reappears in the new location, she must be able to see where She's going. Bursts of shadow appear in both squares affected. While blinking, you have no chance of interfering with your own attacks or your own spells. When moving through solid objects, you do not risk materializing inside one unless you actually end your movement there, in which case you materialize and are shunted off to the nearest open space, taking 1d6 points of damage per 5 feet traveled in this manner. Unless otherwise specified, Blinks have unlimited range, but must begin and end on the same plane.

Improved Uncanny Dodge (Ex): An Assassin of 9th level or higher can no longer be flanked and gains a +1 Dodge bonus to AC. This defense denies another character the ability to sneak attack the character by flanking him, unless the attacker has at least four more levels in a class that provides sneak attack than the target. If a character already has uncanny dodge (see above) from a second class, the character automatically gains improved uncanny dodge instead, and the levels from the classes that grant uncanny dodge stack to determine the minimum level required to flank the character.

Weakening Critical (Ex): At level 10, Skilled Assassins apply their knowledge of anatomy to their critical hits and adds their INT mod to their Damage additionally a Skilled Assassin who scores a critical hit against a creature also deals 2 points of Strength damage to the creature. Creatures immune to critical hits are immune to this effect.

Poisonmaster (Ex): At 11th level, the Assassin learns alchemic secrets for creating short-term poisons. By expending an entire healer’s kit worth of materials and an hour of time, he can synthesize one dose of any poison in the DMG. This poison degrades to uselessness in one week.

Paralyzing Strike (Ex): At 12th Level the Assassin has memorized almost every pressure point for most beings, an assassin must declare this before using and only used on a successful attack roll, when using your an unarmed strike, your target must make a Fortitude saving throw (DC 10 + 1/2 your class level + your INT modifier). If the target fails they are paralyzed for 1 round (until after his Next turn), a Paralyzed foe can’t act, loses any Dexterity bonus to AC, and takes a –2 penalty to AC. An Assassin may use this ability once per day, one additional time every 3rd level.

New School of Magic: At 13th Level the Assassin may now choose spells known from a new school.

Nerve of the Killer (Su): At 14th level, an Assassin gains immunity to compulsion and charm effects. While studying a target for a Lethal Strike, and for one round afterward, he counts as if he were within a protection from evil effect.

Killer’s Proof (Sp): At 15th level, the Assassin learns to steal the souls of those he kills. If he is holding an onyx worth at least 100 GP when he kills an enemy, he may place their soul within the gem as if he has cast soul bind on them at the moment of their death.

Exotic Method:At 16th and 19th level the Assassin learns an exotic form of killing from the list below. Once chosen, this ability does not change:

• Carrier (Sp): Three times per day, the Assassin can cast contagion as a swift action spell-like ability.
• Poison of the Cockatrice (Sp): Twice per day, the Assassin can cast flesh to stone as a swift action spell-like ability.
• Killer Faerie Arts (Sp): Twice per day, the Assassin can cast polymorph other as a swift action spell-like ability.
• Death By Plane (Sp): Once per day, the Assassin can cast plane shift as a spell-like ability.

Phantom Sight (Su): At 17th level the Assassin can see invisible, Spiritual, and ethereal creatures as easily as she sees material creatures and objects.

Wounding Critical (Ex): At 18th level, the assassin has learned to kill even the hardiest of foes by reducing their physical form to shambles. The Assassin deals 2 points of Constitution damage to the creature on a critical hit. (This damage is in addition to the Strength damage dealt by the Assassin's weakening critical class feature.) Creatures immune to critical hits are immune to this effect.

Killing Strike (Su): At 20th level, the Assassin’s Death Attacks bypass his victim’s DR and hardness.

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