PvP arena

[ethandrew]

And what would you say when a player tells you they decapitate the now unconcious pc?
Sure, I'd LIKE to cleave his head off in some cool Sparticus/300 style move (assuming enough outright damage). But I'm not adverse to the decapitation of the unconcious/dying.....

If one of my PCs was so insistent on the decapitation of another PC that they would do this after knocking them into unconsciousness, well I think the group has bigger problems than the mechanics involved. Mechanically though I'd probably stick to the same Massive Damage and Death Save rules. First attack would be a critical hit, imparting two death save failures to the downed PC. Second attack would be another critical and would kill the downed PC. If neither of those attacks were enough to trigger Massive Damage, then once the downed PC is a corpse, the victor can do what they want.