Blocking Coup de Grace

From: Andrew Solovay <asolovay_at_...>
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 15:55:44 -0700


Andrew Dawson <asmpd_at_...> wrote:
>

> I'll say "As you bring up your sword for the killing stroke, he cries
> out 'Ransom!'" and let the player figure it out without the coercion
> of rolls unless the PC has some mitigating flaw such as Greedy that
> causes such coercion.

Proposal: When someone ("CdGee") is about to be CdG'd, give him the opportunity (if appropriate, e.g. he's a PC or a *major* NPC) to launch some appropriate, completely separate, contest against the "CdGer" to stop it. The contest would be any appropriate skill (the CdGee's player has to defend appropriateness) against some corresponding CdGer skill.

Example:

In any event, this contest would all take place within a second, out of the flow of the main (extended contest) battle. Most likely it would be run as a simple contest.

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