Editing Ninja (section)

==Pathfinder==
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===1st Edition===
[[Pathfinder]] also made the ninja as a rogue/monk, and their vast variety of skills means that they outdo both classes by miles (except as skill-monkeys or number of attacks per round). They trade in the rogue's unique skillmonkey powers, like disarming magical traps, for "ninja tricks," which, like the monk's special powers, use up a ''ki pool''.  Also, they are perfectly capable of outdamaging the fuck out of rogues, given the nasty things they can do with projectiles and poison, on top of their sharing the rogue's backstabbery.  They also get passive bonuses to their stealth tests the longer they've been in stealth, leading to hilarious shenanigans.

They also make a scrumptious dip class for monks and vice-versa, since their ''mixed martial arts'' passive abilities let their class levels stack for abilities, and the monk's ''flurry of blows'' explicitly works for all those ninja projectiles.  Combine with the "ninja trick" that lets them double the number of projectiles they throw for a ki point, then combine ''that'' with poison... you get the idea.  Hope the DM didn't let you get ahold of drow venom. In other words, Pathfinder ninjas are [[awesome]]. They are still screwed over by the many sneak attack nerfs introduced in Pathfinder, but at least they look cool.

Sadly when the Rogue was updated/fixed into the Unchained Rogue, the Ninja class was not updated along with it. It should be possible to stack Ninja onto Unchained Rogue, but it's officially an invalid combination because of how unchained rogue and alternate classes work.

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