D&D 4E 4e Coup de Grace

[Family]

If our wizard has successfully put a 10'x10' Blue Slime to sleep...

I understand my Dwarf Fighter can perform a Coup de Grace on it.

My undestanding is that Coups do maximum weapon damage, so ~45 damage if I use brute strike in this case.

Q: Can I the spend an action point do do another Coup de Grace using a different attack (crusing blow for example) and do max damage AGAIN (~34 in this case)?

Q: If while the Blue Slime is sleeping our party surrounds it and they all READY an action to attack immediately after I do could they be Coup de Graces?

Q: If so can they then spend their action points to perform ANOTHER Coupe de Grace each?

The 4e BAR test is now on, aspiring rule lawers wanted

 

[Mort_Q]

Q: If while the Blue slime is sleeping our party surrounds it and they all READY an action to attack immediately after I do would they be considered Coup de Graces?

What conditions need to be met to coup de grâce in 4e? Wouldn't they all meet those conditions if they surrounded a helpless opponent? Seems straight forward, regardless whether it's a readied action or not.

 

[cdrcjsn]

Is there anything under the sleep spell that says unconscious creatures wake up when damaged?

Is there a difference between Unconscious and simple sleep?

You'll need to find the answer to those before your question can be answered.

 

[Meeki]

Slimes aren't immune to sleep?!?

 

[Family]

I know I'm breaking a huge rule here but 3.5 SRD states "wounding awakens a [creature from a magically enduced sleep]". So let's go with that.

And the "theoretical" creature I'm using in this case is not immune to sleep

 

[FadedC]

If you can only coup de gras a sleeping creature, and a creature wakes up from sleep upon being wounded then only one coup de gras can ever be performed.

 

[Family]

If you can only coup de gras a sleeping creature, and a creature wakes up from sleep upon being wounded then only one coup de gras can ever be performed.

Darn...my group is sooo dead. Thanks.

 

[MindWanderer]

But that's not true in 4e. Making the save wakes you up. Taking damage does not. I saw this multiple times at DDXP; you can wail away on a sleeping critter (yes, even a slime or a skeleton), dealing automatic crits every time, until it makes the save and wakes up.

 

[Mort_Q]

Sleep works on skeletons?

 

[Family]

But that's not true in 4e. Making the save wakes you up. Taking damage does not. I saw this multiple times at DDXP; you can wail away on a sleeping critter (yes, even a slime or a skeleton), dealing automatic crits every time, until it makes the save and wakes up.

WOOT! Victory! (Seriously the whole crew down here at the FLGS is chearing right now)!