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<blockquote data-quote="GMMichael" data-source="post: 9193237" data-attributes="member: 6685730">They don't.&nbsp; Unless, of course, a divine healer is walking around with his holy symbol hanging out.&nbsp; I hear they do that...I don't know.&nbsp; There are reasons to confirm your kill - an enemy could be stunned and slow to get back up, or playing dead until you divert attention, or, and bear with me, your opponents have some sort of magical asset that makes wounded allies spring back into action.Unintelligent monsters...well... real-world snakes constrict their meals until there is zero heartbeat or breathing.&nbsp; Why can't fantasy monsters constrict their meals until they've failed all their death saves?Truth.&nbsp; Until they get back up.&nbsp; Which is why &quot;yo-yoing&quot; shouldn't be a problem; when you run one opponent through and watch her fall to the ground, choking on her own blood, and then glimmer a bit and (for some odd reason) appear armed and ready to attack you with a full movement available, an intelligent creature might say &quot;well, maybe I should chop her head off next time, the damn vampire.&quot;By the way, I'm not saying that OP's house rules are wrong.&nbsp; I'm just saying that there's no need for them, given some NPC role-playing and usage of combat rules (like get up from prone, damage causes death save failure, picking up weapons, or opportunity attack when the resurrectee goes to pick up her recently thrown weapon).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="GMMichael, post: 9193237, member: 6685730"] They don't. Unless, of course, a divine healer is walking around with his holy symbol hanging out. I hear they do that... I don't know. There are reasons to confirm your kill - an enemy could be stunned and slow to get back up, or playing dead until you divert attention, or, and bear with me, your opponents have some sort of magical asset that makes wounded allies spring back into action. Unintelligent monsters...well... real-world snakes constrict their meals until there is zero heartbeat or breathing. Why can't fantasy monsters constrict their meals until they've failed all their death saves? Truth. Until they get back up. Which is why "yo-yoing" shouldn't be a problem; when you run one opponent through and watch her fall to the ground, choking on her own blood, and then glimmer a bit and (for some odd reason) appear armed and ready to attack you with a full movement available, an intelligent creature might say "well, maybe I should chop her head off next time, the damn vampire." By the way, I'm not saying that OP's house rules are wrong. I'm just saying that there's no need for them, given some NPC role-playing and usage of combat rules (like get up from prone, damage causes death save failure, picking up weapons, or opportunity attack when the resurrectee goes to pick up her recently thrown weapon). [/QUOTE]

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