Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Helldritch" data-source="post: 8193225" data-attributes="member: 6855114">I am more or less with you on that one. Foes will make sure an opponent will stay down by attacking a fallen enemy only if they have been shown that "fallen" might not be such a big deal. Non animal foes will definitely make certain that the fallen enemy stays down for good. This will avoid the whack a mole syndrome. A spare the dying is a sure way to let a character survive. Think about it this way. Your group put down a.troll, six more remain. Do they take time to apply fire to the fallen troll or do they keep fighting the other trolls and give a  hence to the fallen one to heal up and come back? They apply fire on the fallen troll every single time. A good tactic against trolls. If the player can do it, so can their foes.A character's need not be the end of a character but what is so bad if it is the case? And yes, some monsters have it easy on the "coup de grâce " when they have three attacks. Too easy? I am not so sure but yes, I do agree that it can be a problem. I would not go over board on that tactic unless the players have proven that they can spring back from dying to kicking with a single word. Am I meta gaming? I don't think so as I would not "finish" a character with such a tactic if the players had not shown that they could do the spring back from death to kick ass to their current foes. The important thing is that as a DM you keep being consistent in your approach.</blockquote>

Verification