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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Geron Raveneye" data-source="post: 3868779" data-attributes="member: 2268"><p>I think coup de grace is in the game to give a quantifiable rule to the usual "in certain situations, a dagger through the eye means a dead character" notes that pop up in games that use hit point systems for their main characters, to circumvent the "I have to stab the bound prisoner repeatedly in the throat HOW MANY TIMES with my dagger to kill him!?" controversy that used to come up in groups that didn't really like the DM to rule death by fiat normally, but hated to roll 10d4 (or 6d8 or whatever was used) to kill off the prisoner after he has no more information. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>