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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 3881098" data-attributes="member: 710">Since the damage is apparently not enough to kill the Fighter, something is wrong in this scene. Apparently, the Commoner doesn't get to cut the PC's throat - in the last moment, the character notices the threat, jumps up and blocks the Commoners weapon hand. A skilled Assassin might have been able to do kill the Fighter, but a common man has no chance. You might point out that characters in books and movies sometimes fall prey to such attacks - but these are either not protagonists, or they just stop being them. The PC is always the protagonist. The game gives us some (a lot?) rules to kill a PC, but only if you follow the mechanical rules for it. If you don't, it's up to the DM and the player to decide if such an attack works. If the target is not a PC at all, the rules in this situation don't matter - the DM decides whether it happens this way or not.Sudden character death due to harmless peasant is just something like a Mind Flayer cult trying to block the sun - you don't need rules for it, because it is an exceptional situation, and it's only there for the story of the game.</blockquote>