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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Talonblaze" data-source="post: 5672368" data-attributes="member: 6680256">If your a low level person going to get attacked by a high level assassin, even them not getting a 'coup de grace' matters little since chances are your going to get dropped below -10 anyways.Its a thing of mechanics though, that is why Assassin's have Death Attack, which is essentially also what the flair of such attempts were made for. Would kinda bite if any character off the street could pull that off.Your probably looking for a DM that does hardcore rules for more realism in such regard, which will probably have more implications. Even a character asleep gets a -10 (or is it -20?) to listen and such checks to notice creeping enemies in such a state. As noted there could be other reasons for the 'no insta-kill' in such cases. Can even stretch as far as divine intervention.</blockquote>