Dragon Magazine 379 Assassin Pdf
Meet Havelock. He's the current character I play in.
The Assassin's Run — Proving ground for bad guys.. DRAGON Magazine welcomes unsolicited sub-missions of written material and artwork; how-ever. Dragon Magazine Guide Player Guide for 4th Edition by techmek.
Havelock is a (currently) Level 10 Drow Assassin (Executioner build). This post is going to be a guide to what I feel is the best build for an assassin in D&D. There'll be a bit of theory craft, a bit of lore, and a bit of baseless opinion, so feel free to disregard or complain. This guide is going to be based on D&D 4th Edition (4e), rather than the just recently released 5'th edition (5e/D&DNext) because I don't play 5th edition.
I'll also be using the character builder provided by Wizards of the coast, for no other reason than it allows you to print out spell cards after character creation. Over the years Wizards has added (and removed) some options, so this may not match everything that's available in the player guides. Ratings: When choosing between options in your build, I'll use the following ratings which should be self explanatory: [Useless], [Neutral], [Decent], [Good], [Great]. So lets begin: The Assassin Class. Unlike the standard Assassin Class in D&D, which uses Shadow abilities, the Executioner build is more like what pretty much everyone else thinks of when you think assassin.
Rather than using abilities like taking on a shade form by channeling powers of the Shadowfell (basically using dark magic) the Executioner relies primarily on martial abilities (with 1 or 2 exceptions). The Executioner build is in fact so distinctly removed from the Assassin class that it should really be its own separate class. Mendol Ikemen Idol Season 2. In my opinion the Executioner build should be renamed 'Assassin' and the current assassin should be renamed to a new class that better describes its mechanics. Something like Fell Rogue or whatever. This is a tough choice, but I went with Assassin's Shroud, for the main reason that it gives you a decent ranged ability that you can use as a Free Action, rather than a Standard Action (meaning you can attack a target in melee range and then add a shroud to another target in the same turn).
It doesn't allow you to do the standard once per turn 1d8 damage that Attack Finesse does, but the possibility of dealing 4d6 damage on an enemy (possibly a boss) is really appealing, as our DM's like to make long and hard boss fights. And, if the attack misses, you deal damage minus 1 shroud.
Definitely worthwhile if you're fighting creatures with high defense. Both, however, are great choices. Choosing your Guild. The very existence of this guild of executioners is often dismissed as myth or urban legend. The League of Whispers keeps its membership a secret. Although individual members might be known as assassins, their association with the guild is rarely more than a matter of speculation for nonmembers. The league keeps its existence a mystery by executing anyone who discovers the truth.
The order holds secret meetings once every full moon, where the members converge to discuss jobs, trade secrets and tricks, and receive orders from their Grandfather of Assassins. Choosing this Guild will give you the following abilities: [Decent] Bola Takedown: A basic Crowd Control opportunity. Knocks a target prone. [Good] Quick Shot: Must use a hand crossbow. Allows you to attack with a crossbow at point blank range without invoking an opportunity attack, then step back two squares.
[Great] Precision Dart: Must use a blowgun. Allows you to shoot a poisoned dart at your enemy, applying 1 poison to them.
Ulead Media Studio Pro 6 on this page. This is basically a ranger who uses poison. Very similar to the Demon Hunter class in Diablo III. If you choose this class, I only recommend Bola Takedown if you plan on handling crowd control (typically a controller task, not a striker task).
Poison Dart would be your go to ability as it allows you to apply your assassin poison to the target from a distance. Way of the Ninja (Ranged/Melee).