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Originally Posted by HeatDeath
Granularity in a coup-de-grace rule can be unintentionally hilarious.
There's a Monty Python sketch where a guy is about to be executed by firing squad. The commander does a countdown, the music intensifies, we get terrified closeups of the victims, the camera cuts away, shots ring out, a flock of birds scatters noisily, and offscreen, in John Cleese's unmistakable Russian accent, the commander exclaims...
"How could you miss?!'
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I agree and would never use such rules during an execution, but in the middle of a fight when one farmhand pins a knight and another tries to pry his plate open with a dirk, is another thing. And sometimes a player might want a little granularity when he has played a character for months or even years and a goblin wizard freeze him and his sidekick walks up with a rusty nail to finish the job. And should that nail not get the job done, people will laugh, but out of relief. :-)