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by The GrumpyCat » Mon Aug 13, 2018 7:12 pm
One thing I think helps to get a perspective enough is to imagine a scenario. I invite you all to cast your thoughts onto this idea, pretend - for but a moment, that this is really happening.
Jane SweetyToes decides to run for office in cordor under the Lollypop Faction.
Jane gets elected!
*Gasp!* Jane SweetyToes is in fact a puppet for the evil Cyracists!
She raises taxes to 100%, she decries that Cyric is the god of Cordor! She evicts and paladins she sees! She exiles anyone who leads a revolution! Her group of evil guards beat up people hither and thither!
And mechanicaly the Paladins/Sunites/Healers can do....
nothing.
Oh sure yeah, you can kill her. But unless the player decides to perma then your'e stuck with them. One RL month (or longer if you want to extend the term) of a leader where you have no, absolutly no mechanical way of dealing with her so long as she has the slightest bit of intelect.
I use this example because whilst the Assassin system is most often used by evil characters (as indeed it should be) there might certainly be situations where Good aligned characters might want to use it too. And I would imagine, as in the above, they would suddenly miss it as an option were it gone.
Now personaly, I could just roll with it. It's the way the cookie crumbles and all that. But I want you to consider, if you are arguing for a removal of the removal system, how you'd feel in that situation. Would you still be glad it was gone? Or would you wish it were there to give you some form of recourse?
If you can honestly still say the former then all power to you! But it is worth keeping a mind on bias here.
As a final point - the main way I would consider changing the Assassination system, was to make it so that, after placing the contract, there is a 24 rl hour period (or maybe just 'next reset' period) until allmost all the other mechanics kicked in, save that of the target being warned. This would give the target a potential 24 hour 'grace period' to choose to pay off their contract, if they wished.
This would prevent things like an assassin getting into place, someone putting on the contract, then the assassin assassinating the target literally seconds later.
This too shall pass.
(I now have a DM Discord (I hope) It's DM GrumpyCat#7185 but please keep in mind I'm very busy IRL so I can't promise how quick I'll get back to you.)