A new pretender. The King in Yellow

[sansanjuan]

Originally Posted by Iffriel

The assassin atribute fits into one of the stories in which the King himself stalks an man through Paris in the twilight, eventualy killing him not through direct action but through the man's own fear of his persuier.
It's more to be in keeping of his character then somthing to be actualy used.

Interesting story. I guess if you are stalking someone wearing yellow you are sending a message to your victim... I WANT you to see me coming so as to better liquify your colon before the death blow...
ssj

[brxbrx]

how about, instead of assassinate, he gets something more like seduce commander (but obviously with different effects).
or maybe a vengeance of the dead type of thing?
and I still think an assassin pretender would be a very bad idea.

and I know nothing about modding, so that stuff I mentioned may not even be possible.

[13lackGu4rd]

well, Mictlan already has the Lord of the Night as an assassin pretender choice, so it's not unique. whether it's a good idea or not is an entirely different question, so is whether having Fear 15 on an assassin is ridiculously OP or not.

[thejeff]

Well the Lord of Night also has fear, though not 15 so, again, it's not unique.

It would be ridiculously OP as a regular recruitable or summonable assassin, but as a pretender? Even with the fear it's still a risky and not very profitable way to use your pretender.

[Soyweiser]

15 fear is just a lot. Very easy to increase even. Throw in some death, a fear helmet and you have fear 20. Give dom 9, awe. And you are untouchable.

Ps, random paths on pretenders is a bit bugged, it increases their costs in unexpected ways. I posted about that in the modding forum a while back.

[Iffriel]

Well, after reinstalling the game from scratch the problem seems to have cleared up, i probably messed up some code somwhere trying to get it working.

thanks for all the help guys

[thejeff]

15 Fear is a lot. It may well be overpowered. Certainly not untouchable, even with awe, since there are plenty of things immune to fear, most (all?) of which are also immune to awe.

If it's overpowered, it's overpowered in general, not as an assassin. Or at least a singular assassin pretender. The main flaw is that if you can beat armies single handed why are wasting your time killing individuals. And as soon as anyone's seen you, they'll be hunting you down and scripting potential targets to deal with you. He'll also waste plenty of time killing off decoys.
And he's not that hard to kill.

[Corinthian]

As I recall there is actually an assassin pretender. But only for Mictlan. The nighthunter or something. But no one ever take him because Mictlan needs a bless build and he only start with blood and death. Also, losing your pretender because the enemy had good patrollers is silly.

[13lackGu4rd]

Originally Posted by Corinthian

As I recall there is actually an assassin pretender. But only for Mictlan. The nighthunter or something. But no one ever take him because Mictlan needs a bless build and he only start with blood and death. Also, losing your pretender because the enemy had good patrollers is silly.

I've already posted this above, on this very page too...

Originally Posted by 13lackGu4rd

well, Mictlan already has the Lord of the Night as an assassin pretender choice, so it's not unique. whether it's a good idea or not is an entirely different question, so is whether having Fear 15 on an assassin is ridiculously OP or not.

[brxbrx]

oh noes!
post jealousy