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<blockquote data-quote="Cristian Andreu" data-source="post: 6554592" data-attributes="member: 23822">Last weekend I ran into a problem: The party's rogue wanted to knock people out quick and assuredly by using his Assassinate feature to both sneak attack and auto-crit, in order to make sure he reduced the victims down to 0.However, this often meant he would deal twice the target's HP in damage, particularly when using it on regular servants with very few HPs to begin with.Does the Massive Damage rule mean the victims would die regardless of the rogue's intention to knock them out?I eventually patch-ruled a sap that dealt 1 point of damage but was treated as a finesse weapon so Sneak Attack could be used with it, and it ignored the Massive Damage rules regardless of how hard he hit (thus always knocking people out if reduced to 0 HP). But I was wondering if there's anything more official regarding this particular scenario.Thanks beforehand.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cristian Andreu, post: 6554592, member: 23822"] Last weekend I ran into a problem: The party's rogue wanted to knock people out quick and assuredly by using his Assassinate feature to both sneak attack and auto-crit, in order to make sure he reduced the victims down to 0. However, this often meant he would deal twice the target's HP in damage, particularly when using it on regular servants with very few HPs to begin with. Does the Massive Damage rule mean the victims would die regardless of the rogue's intention to knock them out? I eventually patch-ruled a sap that dealt 1 point of damage but was treated as a finesse weapon so Sneak Attack could be used with it, and it ignored the Massive Damage rules regardless of how hard he hit (thus always knocking people out if reduced to 0 HP). But I was wondering if there's anything more official regarding this particular scenario. Thanks beforehand. [/QUOTE]

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