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<blockquote data-quote="weem" data-source="post: 5101643" data-attributes="member: 9470"><p>Could be cool.</p><p></p><p>I had a player fighting one on one with the leader of this Dragonborn clan (that was apposed to his). They were surrounded by this council made of the heads of the various clans in this great hall - an epic fight that was lead up to over most of the campaign (my first 4e campaign).</p><p></p><p>Anyway, the fight had been going for a while, and the leader the was down to about 30% of this life when the PC rolled a 20. I then described how his twirling attack (with his axe) decapitated his enemy to the shock of the council around him. The crit would not have killed the guy, but the PC was winning (albeit barely) - it was just an epic way to end the fight - I had not decided ahead of time he would win, and he knew going in that if he died, that was it (the council would not allow either party to be rez'd) - and I roll out in front of everyone, etc etc.</p><p></p><p>It just felt like the right time - it was close, it was hectic and the PC had pure hatred for this guy. The player jumped up and literally jumped in the air in excitement.</p><p></p><p>That's what it's all about <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="weem, post: 5101643, member: 9470"] Could be cool. I had a player fighting one on one with the leader of this Dragonborn clan (that was apposed to his). They were surrounded by this council made of the heads of the various clans in this great hall - an epic fight that was lead up to over most of the campaign (my first 4e campaign). Anyway, the fight had been going for a while, and the leader the was down to about 30% of this life when the PC rolled a 20. I then described how his twirling attack (with his axe) decapitated his enemy to the shock of the council around him. The crit would not have killed the guy, but the PC was winning (albeit barely) - it was just an epic way to end the fight - I had not decided ahead of time he would win, and he knew going in that if he died, that was it (the council would not allow either party to be rez'd) - and I roll out in front of everyone, etc etc. It just felt like the right time - it was close, it was hectic and the PC had pure hatred for this guy. The player jumped up and literally jumped in the air in excitement. That's what it's all about ;) [/QUOTE]
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