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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bluenose" data-source="post: 5432058" data-attributes="member: 49017"><p>Reducing someone to zero hit points 'puts them out of the fight'. That doesn't have to mean dead. I'm not sure whether it's in a PHB or DMG, or a Dragon article, but I'm sure I've seen something describing a variety of ways to do that. And I've certainly seen it done in a game, where a PC chose to finish off an enemy in a formal duel not by killing them but by cutting their hand off and leaving them helpless. And repeatedly we've knocked people unconscious to interrogate later rather than killing them outright. Whether taking someone's eye out would count as a 'finishing move' would be up to an individual GM, but I would allow it if it seemed genre-appropriate. Swashbucklers, or Norse heroes, and pirates, though it wouldn't seem right for Arthurian knights.</p></blockquote><p></p>