THE PERFECT ASSASSIN, a GLoG class

Checkmate, Graphite Prime.

A Poison-Harvesting. Each day you spend in the verdant wild, you can roll WIS to try and find d4 doses of poisonous plants. These plants are worth 50 silver apiece to those of your profession (and in fact that is the market price if you wish to purchase it), but you can also use a TURN to turn one into a paralytic to coat small weapons (i.e. daggers, hand crossbows) with. Those hit must roll CON or be paralyzed for d4 ROUNDS, losing DEX bonuses to armor (if applicable), the poison then drying off the weapon and being spent.

B Backstab. You have ADVANTAGE on attacks against people who are flat-footed, restrained, or paralyzed by your poison. If you hit with an attack of this kind, it does double damage. If the target isn’t particularly remarkable (i.e. they don’t have a specific name or stat block in the DM’s notes), they instead die instantly, assassinated.

C Alternate identity. You have the disguise materials and documentation for one false identity of your choice that you can occupy at the drop of a hat- flesh it out as much as you please, but it’s the same one every time, unless you spend a week of downtime and spend 100s to change it.

D Shadowmelter. You can teleport between shadows you can see, stepping in and out in a bewildering pattern.

At low levels, the Perfect Assassin would be hopping from foe to foe, administering poison judiciously. When someone falls to the poison, they go in for the kill, making another stab on a paralyzed target. As they grow in renown and reputation, they gain a fallback “face” they can use in their place to catch people unawares. Their apotheosis is their melding with dark magics, allowing them to shift into the Plane of Shadows and becoming a predator in the night.

What do you think about this class? It’s certainly powerful, but it could be easily toned down or altered, or perhaps split into 6 or 8 levels instead. Thanks for reading, and happy gaming.