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The Backstab

Started by rgrove0172, September 05, 2016, 04:37:18 PM

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Quote from: AsenRG;922798Are you still running H+I? It actually represents a knife ambush quite well, IIRC.
Yeah attack with a dagger with suprise, called shot, and a go-for-broke lunge attack, can be quite deadly.
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Omega

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In the end the basic problem was that the OPs player should have never called an instakill in a situation like that. Especially if they were low level.

This is of course system dependant. There are systems that have the PCs start out alot more competent and able to pull stunts like that. But in games where the PCs start out as green recruits fresh out of training then no. Sorry. Gain some experience and then massacre the poor SOB properly.

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Quote from: Omega;922181If Im reading the 5e rules right its a free action to unsheath/ready a weapon.

True, I was thinking in terms of old-school D&D.
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