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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Camarath" data-source="post: 1244563" data-attributes="member: 11987">Euthanasia is an english word (from greek) that means roughly the same thing (but has a non-combat connotation); the act or practice of killing or permitting the death of hopelessly sick or injured individuals (as persons or domestic animals) in a relatively painless way for reasons of mercy. In my experience coup de grâce has rather common usage in english as do other french words relating to combat and warfare (such as élan). In english I have only seen coup de grâce used to mean the killing of a downed combatant. I do not know if it is used to mean other forms of mercy killing in french but in english it's use is limited to combat.On the issue of allowing power attack on a Coup de grâce, I think that the rules as they are written allow it, and that allowing it would not present any more imbalance then allowing sneak attack damage on a Coup de grâce. More over it would not seem equitable to me to allow the use of sneak attack damage on a Coup de grâce and then to disallow power attack damage.</blockquote>