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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 5922826" data-attributes="member: 58197">Just re-read it, and the CDG rule is pretty clear: You can coup de grace an unconscious creature. That's it. "Helpless" is an adjective applied to a creature already established to be unconscious. The second sentence reinforces that you can only do it to an unconscious target.I think paralyzed foes should also be subject to CDG, myself, and in a proper game I'd house-rule it. For the playtest, of course, I'll run as written.The interesting question comes when you have a creature that isn't unconscious or paralyzed but is also being held in a position where it is unable to defend itself; the classic example where the villain is holding one of the PCs with a knife to his or her throat, or the above where an executioner is getting ready to chop a victim's head off.I'm thinking the best way to handle this is to say that such creatures get a Dexterity save. If they succeed, they avoid the coup de grace and maybe get out of whatever position made them vulnerable (this would of course require a bunch more thought and some rules-smithing). Since paralyzed and unconscious creatures auto-fail Dex saves, it works out nicely.</blockquote>