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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 7333814" data-attributes="member: 82106">Well, there's the classic scene of the guy who's standing there and all of a sudden he starts to spit blood and his head falls off. lol. Nobody even saw the guy next to him draw, it was so fast. I'd hope that would be pretty intimidating.I think a LOT of this kind of stuff though is best modeled as "the really high level guy suddenly 'kills' all the low level minions just by showing them how bad-assed he is. They fail their morale and stop being a relevant component of the plot". I think there's always this endless quest to materialize the bad-assery in some sort of specific ability that someone of the same level as the bad guy can have that just makes him that big of a bad-ass, but really you're intimidated by Musashi because he's fought 100's of sword fights and he's 21st level and you're some farmboy that just picked up a sword, you better be scared of him. He doesn't need some special ability written on his sheet for that. Or let us say that maybe he has "iaijitsu' written there, but does it need any mechanics? Or does it just mean "channels his bad-assery by being incredibly fast" and you just narrate how that plays out.</blockquote>