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<blockquote data-quote="Iku Rex" data-source="post: 3058524" data-attributes="member: 752">There are no official rules. My solution would be to call an attack with a wooden weapon that would have killed the vampire had it still been alive a successful staking. (With reservations - see below.)The &quot;would have killed it&quot; part is important, as it prevents any oddities when players try to stake other creatures. Staking a vampire in combat should be very difficult. If the players insisted on going for the perfect strike I'd give the vampire increased AC and/or a miss chance to hit to reflect the added difficulty of hitting the heart. (This means that vampire hunters will want to beat up the vampire for a while before bringing out the stakes... Now where have I seen that before? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />)A CDG is always a &quot;hit&quot;, so in the coffin the vampire must succeed on a CDG Fort save (as if it had been alive). If it fails, the stake has reached the heart. (Bonus on damage for a mallet maybe?)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Iku Rex, post: 3058524, member: 752"] There are no official rules. My solution would be to call an attack with a wooden weapon that would have killed the vampire [I]had it still been alive[/I] a successful staking. (With reservations - see below.) The "would have killed it" part is important, as it prevents any oddities when players try to stake other creatures. Staking a vampire in combat should be very difficult. If the players [I]insisted[/I] on going for the perfect strike I'd give the vampire increased AC and/or a miss chance to hit to reflect the added difficulty of hitting the heart. (This means that vampire hunters will want to beat up the vampire for a while before bringing out the stakes... Now where have I seen that before? :)) A CDG is always a "hit", so in the coffin the vampire must succeed on a CDG Fort save ([I]as if it had been alive[/I]). If it fails, the stake has reached the heart. (Bonus on damage for a mallet maybe?) [/QUOTE]

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