Attack on a specific limb

[Metztei]

Hello!
I recently started DM'ing, this friday to sunday will be my 2nd session and i need a little advice.

I have a player who is playing a rogue, and he hinted towards wanting to make a lot of "coup de grace" in combat, by slithering the opponents heels or similar to render the opponent helpless so he could perform the coup de grace mid combat.

How would you deal with this, is it enough to slit someones heels to become helpless?

And if so, what extra modifiers would come in play regarding the attack / dmg roll?

And last, would a coup de grace provoke an AOO ?

[Christopher Woldridge]

Called Shots came out in Ultimate Combat. You can find the rules in the PRD HERE, there is no called shot that will render the target helpless. The rules for a Coup de Grace are HERE and yes it does draw and AOO.

[Metztei]

Crispy3ed wrote:

Called Shots came out in Ultimate Combat. You can find the rules in the PRD HERE, there is no called shot that will render the target helpless....

Thanks a bunch, just what i needed!

[Pupsocket]

You can adapt the "finishing move" rule from a lot of other games: When you take out an enemy, you can decide what happens to him. Is he dead? Unconscious? Decapacitated? Your call.

[Kazaan]

Crispy3ed wrote:

...there is no called shot that will render the target helpless.

There's one. A debilitating called shot to the head will render the target unconscious if they fail the fort save.

[Claxon]

Yeah, don't let your rogue just say he cuts someones heel and then can coup de grace them. Thats too easy, and if thats how it worked everyone would be doing that.

Allow him to use the called shot system, but he will find that it probably wont do him much good (i.e. he wont be able to render them helpless and coup de grace them).

Heck it takes multiple feat investment to be able to render an opponent flat footed (not helpless even) so that a rogue can get sneak attack on it, allowing an easy method of rendering someone helpless simply wouldn't be balanced.

[Zhayne]

I'm with Pupsocket. If he reduces a target to zero HP, he can describe the end result however he likes.

[Metztei]

Thanks for the responses everyone :)