Instant Kills

[lostsoul336]

Ok i ran into this last night and allowed it but now i figured i would ask what the correct answer would be. my group was captured by minotaurs and they managed to escape and find a couple of short swords. they were prowling down the tunnells when they came to a couple of sleeping minotaurs. they asked if they could just coup de' gra them and i thought about it for a minute and allowed them to kill them in 1 hit. my question is what are the "official" rules for this situation if there are any or how do you handle it.

[jaymz]

This definitely falls intot he use common sense area nd i thinkyou did exactley what should havew been done.

Kevin himself used an example to deomstrate when to use common sense. T paraphrase, a character with alot of SDC and HP jumps on a grenade before it gets off. He is dead. He has plenty ofsdc and hp left but fact is he jumped on a grenade so he is dead because common sense dictates he shuld be regardless of his sdc and/or hp.

[lostsoul336]

This definitely falls intot he use common sense area nd i thinkyou did exactley what should havew been done.

Kevin himself used an example to deomstrate when to use common sense. T paraphrase, a character with alot of SDC and HP jumps on a grenade before it gets off. He is dead. He has plenty ofsdc and hp left but fact is he jumped on a grenade so he is dead because common sense dictates he shuld be regardless of his sdc and/or hp.

I think i remember reading that somewhere. What i was leaning towards was having them do critical damage direct to HP. i might do that for certain creatures but proabably will just use common sense. Thanks

[Nekira Sudacne]

There are no rules for a Coup de Grace. It's entirey GM's call.

[The Beast]

The closest thing is in Vampire Kingdoms (I forget the page) where it mentions staking a sleeping vampire.

[Nekira Sudacne]

On the other hand, ambushing a sleeping dragon (which should be next to impossible but let's discuss it for the sake of argument) wouldn't help so much. You'd have to have the strength of a titan and a massive edged weapon to have even a hope of beheading the creature in one blow. And I'd say in most cases the scales of such a creature would simply be too tough to allow any but the sharpest (and magical) of blades to cleave the creature in twain.

I would like to point out that even if a creature is MDC if shot in the eye with an SDC pistol it would still hurt and be quite distracting, even debilitating. In Superman returns, when he is shot in the eye its total BS. If I poke you in the chest, even if i don't bruse you or do tissue damage, you feel it. For getting shot in the eye not to hurt you would have to have no sence of touch.

Or be in a fantasy world. I wonder which one applies in this situation...

[drakinn]

Love it you did the right call