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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celtavian" data-source="post: 878993" data-attributes="member: 5834">ReCommon sense and realistic, are two different things. It is a common sense application of the rule as in a sensible DM doesn't let a player do this. The DM looks at the series of AOO's and decides what seems appropriate. The AOO rule is there to allow a player to strike an opponent who temporarily drops their guard during a combat sequence. Like when a person uses a potion, leaving an opening for one of those many attacks that happen but don't hit to hit. (the interpretation for combat exchanges is a series of blows with your BAB determining how many effective blows you can attempt. As in there are 10 blows exchanged, but only 3 or 4 are going to be effective blows even at high level) That is what an AOO is.For the sake of simplicity, they determined that an unconcious person is not really engaged in combat, and that allowing a person to Coup De Gras that individual or hack at them with a severely lowered armor class was good enough. You can basically hack away at the person unimpeded. AOO's were unnecessary because they weren't really doing anything to provoke them and for the most part, the active combatant could just walk up and hack them do death. Do you really need a whole bunch of extra AOO's to hack apart an unconcious person?This is where you as a DM decide that the feat choices of said player have allowed them to abuse the rules, so you make changes. Why? The game designers in an RPG can only do so much. It is up to the DM's to arbitrate a rule that has gotten out of hand whether it is a combination of feats or a particular spell application that the game designers failed to take into account when designing the rules.If the combination of feats you suggest become a problem in the game, I am quite sure that they will errata a change or make a change in the next edition. I would be very surprised if the situation you described occurred very often in any game I run. I would definitely nix it in the bud as soon as it did.</blockquote>

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