Once enough players have signed up, the game host assigns targets to the players. Game hosts (also called umpires or referees) begin by advertising that a game is being set up and instruct potential players to send in their personal details. As such, the specific style of play is likely to vary between one group and the next.
The Assassin game has several published variants, such as the Steve Jackson book Killer: The Game of Assassination, first published in 1982, and different guilds tend to create their own sets of rules and procedures.
