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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeremy" data-source="post: 1330846" data-attributes="member: 4036">Especially with the area the PC's are in as far as I know that's got to have been really hard for them to have recognized the deathless frenzy.  Considering how much of the stuff there is undead and would keep fighting sans arms and chests... But no, you did it right.  The chances of the crit weren't good and the chances of the crit on someone with fortification armor is less.  PC's die.  You can't challenge evil empires killing 100's of creatures and not expect to have it come back to you.  <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> No one is THAT lucky. Now there are somethings that are just too dirty to use... I had a psychic warrior/deepwood sniper who used a psionic bow of coup de grace (psionics handbook) that I never found a way to use in my campaign.  Why?  Because 1/day he could ranged coup de grace a non helpless opponent doing x8 damage on an arrow with a fort save or die with a DC equal to 15 plus the insane damage done. It was basically death with no save.  The worst part was, as a psychic warrior it was a fell shot.  That meant it was a ranged touch attack.  Given the deepwood sniper's range at that level (half a mile), and his huge hide skill and modus operandi....  Well, the opponent is going to be flatfooted. So what is a PC's flat footed touch attack?  Instant death for anything with almost guaranteed getaway with starting lead and quickened dimension door after the shot was too close to the perfect crime. I thought of maybe having him kill an NPC and have them have to divine and track him down, but that just meant there'd be an encounter between the PC's and the sniper and more painful death. Some things are just too dirty to do to pc's.  <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=";)" /></blockquote>

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