Garthanos
Arcadian Knight
Garthanos: again, my problem with that is you are putting the PCs in the position of making a lot of intential killing strokes (vs. being "forced" to kill their oponents). Of course, this was discussed quite a bit upthread.
Right I get it actually just showing the base line method and that there was fiction in support of it, but there is also the why are you using deadly weapons question .. ie if there are spells which realiably function as non-deadlly attack or similar.
I actually presume you are saying I might accidently push too hard and sleeping beauty somebody into the deep coma version and I am rather cool with that.