Expanding Coup De Grace?

[trancejeremy]

Weird Wars (from Pinnacle) expands the coup de grace rules for the sniper class. Essentially, if a sniper with a sniper rifle aims for a full round, and the target is not moving, he can make a coup de grace attack on the 2nd round.

That is about the only reasonable way of extending the coup de grace rules, IMHO.

 

[gfunk]

One more vote against!

Consider the "Coup de Grace" abilitiy of weapons in the Psionics Handbook. It is considered a +5 equivalent (same as Vorpal) except that it is usable 1/day. In a nutshell, you can declare one attack action to be an automatic coup de grace. So you instantly crit and the foe must make a Fort save or die.

What you are proposing is slightly weaker than above, but with unlimited uses per day.

Actually, it would make a good Epic feat I suppose but definitely "over-kill" for PCs under level 20!

 

[Creeperman]

Nine. Evil, bad idea. Gaze not into the Abyss, for that way lies madness.

 

[CRGreathouse]

10.

 

[Lord Pendragon]

The best part about this idea is that it leads to a domino effect where two equally-sized groups will kill each other off until only one creature is left standing.

Round 1

PC1 attacks Monster1, CDG, loses own dex to AC

Monster2 attacks PC1, CDG, loses own dex to AC

PC2 attacks Monster2, CDG, loses own dex to AC

Monster 3 attacks PC2, CDG, loses own dex to AC...


et al.

I love it.

 

[Bavix]

Thanks guys

Now this is what messageboards are for.

How valuable it is to have an entire community to wake you up when you're in a state of rules catatonia.

I figured this is the response I would get from the coup de grace idea and I'm glad everbody snapped be back to reality.

Thanks,

Bavix

 

[SableWyvern]

Since the original post asked also asked for alternatives, try this:

Take the original suggestion but modify so that:

1. Only applies to a group selected from the Ranger favoured enemy list (or make it a Ranger feat applying to all favoured enemies).

2. Attacker must still roll to hit, doing normal damage.

3. If the attack hits, save DC = damage.

4. If the save is made, half or no damage is done.