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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7625960" data-attributes="member: 996"><p>The ol' sneak up and kill a sentry? </p><p></p><p>5e: Narrate success or failure depending on which'd set up the better scenario - or, if it doesn't matter call for regular attack & damage. 5e has an assassin sub--class that pulls these kinds of murders as a defining feature, so giving it out for free could be off.... that said, a ranger should be able to manage some serious damage.</p><p>4e: Make it part of a larger skill challenge. After the second stealth failure, kill a minion sentry in one go or the jig us up.</p><p>3e: RaW, you get to attack from surprise, loss of DEX bonus, all that. Orcs didn't have that many hps anyway.</p><p>AD&D: Almost sounds like a trick question, it was so improbable to stealth successfully. Probably roll the orc's 1 HD at the same time as the damage, behind the screen, and proceed much as in 5e.</p><p></p><p> The scene is familiar enough. But, were it a protagonist, we could expect the arrow to miss as he coincidentally shifts position or something.</p><p></p><p>On the gamist side, if you can bypass hps, the game tends to become about /that/.</p><p></p><p>But, I do like the idea of will to fight on as a significant component of hps.</p><p></p><p> Yep, I see it. But it's not even a hypothetical - Hold Person's still a thing, so you can /make/ someone just stand there and take it....</p><p>...so, should Hold Person be a death spell?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tony Vargas, post: 7625960, member: 996"] The ol' sneak up and kill a sentry? 5e: Narrate success or failure depending on which'd set up the better scenario - or, if it doesn't matter call for regular attack & damage. 5e has an assassin sub--class that pulls these kinds of murders as a defining feature, so giving it out for free could be off.... that said, a ranger should be able to manage some serious damage. 4e: Make it part of a larger skill challenge. After the second stealth failure, kill a minion sentry in one go or the jig us up. 3e: RaW, you get to attack from surprise, loss of DEX bonus, all that. Orcs didn't have that many hps anyway. AD&D: Almost sounds like a trick question, it was so improbable to stealth successfully. Probably roll the orc's 1 HD at the same time as the damage, behind the screen, and proceed much as in 5e. The scene is familiar enough. But, were it a protagonist, we could expect the arrow to miss as he coincidentally shifts position or something. On the gamist side, if you can bypass hps, the game tends to become about /that/. But, I do like the idea of will to fight on as a significant component of hps. Yep, I see it. But it's not even a hypothetical - Hold Person's still a thing, so you can /make/ someone just stand there and take it.... ...so, should Hold Person be a death spell? [/QUOTE]
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