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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RigaMortus2" data-source="post: 3782570" data-attributes="member: 11586">Something happened in our campaign that reminded me of a scene from a movie.  First, I'll describe the scene in the movie as best as I can remember.  I am hoping someone knows what movie it is from my (probably vague) description, because it is bothering me.The scene involves a person being killed by one or more other people.  The person(s) doing the killing basically botch the attempt and do not kill the person on the first shot (I can't remember what weapon they used, I think a gun, but could have been a knife).  Anyway, they botch the first attempt so the person is lying there in pain bleeding to death.  They try to put the person out of this misery, but each time they try and stab or shoot them (again, I forget their method) they keep making it worse.  Eventually the person dies IIRC.Anyway, if that scene sounds at all familiar from a movie, can someone let me know what movie?The reason I bring it up is because we had a scene in our last D&D session that basically reminded me of this.  I tried to coup de grace a concious but helpless foe, and I did damage on my first attack but they made their save.  I quickly tried again, to kill them with a coup de grace and put them out of their misery.  I did more damage, but yet again they saved!  My ally was starting to think I was just being sick and toying with the person, so he said, "Here, let me try" and the same thing happened.  Dealt damage, they made their Fort save for the CdG.  Finally they ended up dying.</blockquote>

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