Garrotes from Song and Silence
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CullAfulMoshuN
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I second FANGO there actually. I think munkin is a term coined more for the 20th level fighter who can happily ignore having his throat cut by the 6th level assassin for several minutes. I believe a 1st level thief should be able to kill a 20th level fighter, if he gets the drop on him "just once" and is lucky.
I play a 2nd level thief who came across a sleeping guy during a break in. We knew the guy was hard core (5-8th level fighter) and was scared he would wake up and kill us all, so I decided to coup de grace him. I did, with max damage, he just awoke rather than died, I sneak attacked him again for max damage, he got up. My companion also a 2nd level thief flanked him and we both sneak attacked him with max damage 3 more times before he went down. He almost killed me with the one strike he got in.
But I guess it was "Munkin" for me to assume an assailant with the drop in could easily kill a unarmed and unarmored sleeping man.
I play a 2nd level thief who came across a sleeping guy during a break in. We knew the guy was hard core (5-8th level fighter) and was scared he would wake up and kill us all, so I decided to coup de grace him. I did, with max damage, he just awoke rather than died, I sneak attacked him again for max damage, he got up. My companion also a 2nd level thief flanked him and we both sneak attacked him with max damage 3 more times before he went down. He almost killed me with the one strike he got in.
But I guess it was "Munkin" for me to assume an assailant with the drop in could easily kill a unarmed and unarmored sleeping man.
Shard O'Glase
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Did that fighter have to roll a fort save v that coup de grace because he should of. And it would of been well beyond his abilities to make except on a natural roll of 20.
As is the garrote is absolutely brutal. Does it kill things instantly as some here would have it, no but neither does a 2 handed sword and how many hits from that could you take. I find it hard to understand how people feel free to rationalize people surviving crits from lances being wielded by armored knights on a charging horse, survive a raging barbarian maddly swinging a great axe, but then can't accept a garrote not slaughtering everthing in its path just because they got the drop on someone.
As is the garrote is absolutely brutal. Does it kill things instantly as some here would have it, no but neither does a 2 handed sword and how many hits from that could you take. I find it hard to understand how people feel free to rationalize people surviving crits from lances being wielded by armored knights on a charging horse, survive a raging barbarian maddly swinging a great axe, but then can't accept a garrote not slaughtering everthing in its path just because they got the drop on someone.
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