Please Rate Death Blow

[ThomasBJJ]

The only good use that comes to mind are if you have someone in the party who casts hold person alot.

 

[Joker]

The only good use that comes to mind are if you have someone in the party who casts hold person alot.

or a monk with stunning attack.

 

[Zhure]

or a monk with stunning attack.

Stunned characters are not helpless and not subject to Coup de Grace.

Greg

 

[Thanee]

Well, there's always a better feat.

If you really need the one round CDG, just get hasted!

Bye
Thanee

 

[smetzger]

bump

 

[Madfox]

It is one of those few feats that probably are better at mid- to high levels and when it is combined with paralysing magic. Remember, hold person/monster has got a relative short duration. It has happened several times already in the RttToEE that the hold person duration ran out before the end of the battle. At those moments I have heard my players moan and wish that they could have CdG these characters more easily. While the benefits are the same for low levels, combats tend to take less long. Also remember that it is a fighter feat (as far as I remember), by 15ht lvl fighters have little else to select. For an individual the feat is worthless. So I rated it as an average feat. Still, it is a rather specialized feat. Perhaps it would have been slightly better if it had also removed the AoO.

On a side note - what do you mean with power inflation of feats? Most of the feats in the newer WotC products are not more valuable then the average feats in the PHB. Sure, some or better, but when looking at my PCs the biggest amount of feats still comes from the PHB.

 

[Storminator]

If either of my summoned monsters had that feat I'd have killed the party fighter. As it was, he lived.

He charged out first, and got Held. The summoned critter wasn't close enough to CdG, but charged and attacked. Next round the bard engaged the monster, drawing its attacks, while the priest summoned another monster, again too far for the CdG. It moved up and attacked the Held fighter again, and then the other fighter and the rogue attacked.

So it would have been great there, but neither monster could have had it, and I haven't seen it come up other times.

PS

 

[smetzger]

Also remember that it is a fighter feat (as far as I remember), by 15ht lvl fighters have little else to select.

It is not on the Fighter Bonus feat list.

 

[AGGEMAM]

It is a fighter bonus feat according to the SnF errata.

 

[Roland Delacroix]

I think its underpowered. But i managed to come up with a way to use it. After months and months i finally developed a smackdown that uses Death Blow, its in the Smackdown thread. Still, thats the only reason i'd ever take it.