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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 3422028" data-attributes="member: 14159">Within the context of Star Wars, I wouldn't say that Stormtroopers wouldn't always coup de grace.They could assume the target is dead and leave them for dead.  Of all the people shot down in the movies, how many people are actually coup-de-graced?  Stormtroopers didn't move in CDG'ing people on the Tantive IV or on Hoth.  When you're hit by a blaster and down, stormies tend to consider you out of the fight (but if you start fighting again or show signs of life, then it's going to hurt).Or they could arrest the target and take them off for interrogation.  This is a very "Star Wars" scenario as the rest of the PC's now have to stage a rescue, or the PC has to escape somehow.  In Star Wars campaigns I've played in, there is always at least one "Rescue the captured PC", it even shows up in the movies with great regularity (Rescue Leia from the Death Star, Rescue Han from Jabba, Rescue Obi-Wan on Geonosis, ect. . .)The idea that everybody always CDG's their fallen foes seems to be a D&Dism to me, not so much a Star Wars thing.</blockquote>