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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Masada" data-source="post: 4492757" data-attributes="member: 19339">Yeah, I don't think it is out of the DM's bounds to say "everyone knows a sword stroke to the throat is fatal".  But of course any crazed character could ignore that.  The victim dies... the villian dies... and then one player has to explain to the other player why he killed his character off.  Another way to say this is "out of character"... "John, Bob's character will die if you take this action.  Roleplay how you will. Okay, what do you do?"But... this is one of those situations where I think the DM needs to have a plan about what to do with character death.  This takes some of the pressure off the DM who may be reluctant to kill off a character justly.  At least it was the "boss" so the character could die a hero's death in combat rather than the ignoble failed save versus traps.</blockquote>