Using intimidate to force an opponent to surrender

Oh yeah, we had an instance where the party Barbarian leapt in the air and decapitated the leader of a platoon of Ogres right in front of his entire crew - one of those power attack, crit, near max damage, raging, etc. etc. The other ogres were floundering around in a wide area Spike Growth so they couldn't really flee in their condition. The icing on the cake was the blood soaked, little human female Barbarian happily prying the tremendous Ogre's greataxe out his hand and jumping up and down on his corpse shouting "I got it! I got it!". That was enough to make them surrender on the spot (I think I pretended to roll some dice, heh).

The ogres pretty well became followers of the Barbarian after that point and the party put them to work building a safehouse far behind enemy lines. They feared the Ogres might turn on them at first, but their fear of the tiny and extremely musclebound barbarian was much greater than any need for revenge.

Which is why the game trusts DMs to handle this sort of thing appropriately. Sometimes the game is just too cool to muddy it up with rules.
 

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