Update Assassin PrC too?

[9lives]

Divine Champion was adjusted to better reflect its PnP inception, as opposed to the Champion of Torm introduced in HOTU.

[Cruzel]

Asassination for a good cause.

See; Smiting.


It's not assasination if it's good, It's smiting. IE, paladins and goodly folk do not assasinate, they smite. Assasination is lowly, cowardly and evil. So instead they Smite.

[core]

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/prc/20070401a

AVENGER.

[efuincarnate]

I think the difficulty is folks useing albeit fictional, but real world characters, vs. our cannon D&D, which as it has been said, is rather black and white.  Moreso, I would think a DM judgement would be the final say, I imagine you could app for anything you like.  LG Assasin, and if it had enough merit, they might grant it.  And that is without changeing the PRC, which you need an app for anyhow. Just make a more indepth app for the exta alingment stuff, perhaps?

[Egon the Monkey]

As both Cruzel and Core's link explain, sneaking up and killing people with Poison and Death Attack as a JOB alone is Evil, as you do it because you care about money more than life.

Doing it because you believe it is the necessary and right way to remove a tyrant/threat to your country/evil madman is not. Death attack from stealth and Paladin Ganksquad both produce the same result, a decomposing bad guy.
Forgotten realms example: The Harpers use assassins (though this char doesn't have the PrC)

The assassin's class abilities don't come with a "must be evil to do this" feel like, say the Blackguard's Summon Undead/Fiend. Poison is in no way set as Evil only when you look at the number of poisonous spells, and Sneak Attack is just as bastardly as Death Attack, if less precise and deadly.

I'd agree that a non-evil Assassin should nedd a FAR better app, as "I kill people for money, and that's how I deserve the PrC" is easier for a char to pull off IG than "I kill people when I believe it is right and they are dangerous". That requires very specific motivations, and probably working as the official or unofficial hitman for some sort of non-Evil faction.