17 Assassins
Still from 13 Assassins. 1963.
This month, Phlox's spontaneously rose up to write assassin posts. Mine was the first, but Vayra really set the ball rolling. What follows is an index of all the posts I could find, in chronological order. If I missed yours, send me a ping and I'll add it.
Rolling an Assassin
I already had these formatted as a table, so I figured why not make it game-able. When the players (or their foes) seek out an assassin to hire, roll d20 to see who they find.
- On an 18-20, they find two. On an 18, they hate each other. On a 19, they treat one another with professional courtesy. On a 20, they are lovers.
- For class posts, they have stats as a bandit plus the starting gear and A template features of the class you rolled.
- For lore posts, they find a representative of the organization described.
The Assassins
| d20 | Blog | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mediums & Messages | GLoG Class: Guild Assassin | An AD&D inspired class that focuses on the assassin's relation to their handler. |
| 2 | The Mad Queen's Court | Damnation Seize My Soul If I Give You Quarters, Or Take Any From You (Class: Fighter) | An assassin by way of Blackbeard and wind-bending martial arts. |
| 3 | Sinusoidal freakshow | Some Undeniably True Facts about the Shadowy Killers of the Lingo-Logistico | A lore-post about an order of assassins who kill with maddening near-poems. |
| 4 | Paths Unending | They Are the Difference (GLoG Class: Assassin) | Assassin as hunter-priest dedicated to a predator god. Many domain play facing mechanics. |
| 5 | Whose Measure God Could Not Take | Home Ferox (GLoG Class: Assassin) | An assassin who managed to kill someone important once and has been riding on the fame ever since. |
| 6 | Numbers Aren't Real | World of Assassination (GLOG Classes: Assassin) | Several assassins! Each one covers a different archetypal idea through a shared mechanical framework. |
| 7 | 100 independent bathrooms | Do you think I'm cruel? (class: Assassin) | A minimalist assassin that zooms in on just killing one person in particular. |
| 8 | Grackle Court | [GLOG] Assassin | An assassin that makes heavy use of the novel "flip template" mechanic to reward players for leaning into their role. |
| 9 | Craggenloch Tribune | There Is No Skill In What I do - Church Assassin (GLOG Class) (Bandwagoning) | A holy assassin who gets divine visions and only succeeds through the aid of a higher power. |
| 10 | Kludge Kauldron | The Assassin | A stealth mission assassin who gradually accrues "nerves" - making them better at stealth and worse at everything else - until the tension snaps. |
| 11 | Garamondia | Red Apes/Returner Demons | Demon assassins coming back from the end of history to carry you away. |
| 12 | Archons March On | GLOG Class: Sacred Scorpion Dancer | Another holy assassin, this one full of hyperdiegetic references and with a denoument of turning into a giant scorpion. |
| 13 | The Nothic's Eye | I'LL HAVE YOU DIE FOR THIS (Assassins of Penny Dreadfuls) | A survey of orders of assassins. Immediately importable as factions. |
| 14 | The Lovely Dark | assassin | A poem in assassin form or vice versa. |
| 15 | The Whimsical Mountain | The First Time Changes You (Class: Assassin) | An assassin who can kill anything one time with thief skills for the rest of their adventuring. |
| 16 | Velvet Inks and Crystal Fires | Simple Tiger's Dream (GLOG Class: Assassin) | A terrifying assassin with morale related mechanics. |
| 17 | ふかひれスープ | GLOG Class: My Last Ninja Was Just A Fighter | A Mall Rats assassin that declares a LORD who they must kill for. |