Coup de Gras as a Standard Action


Pathfinder First Edition General Discussion


Enemy’s Heart is an interesting little spell that lets you gain temporary hit points, a profane bonus to strength, and a bonus to caster level by performing a coup de gras on a helpless living target.

It has a full-round cast time. But I’m pretty sure it can made into Oil of Enemy’s Heart via Craft Potion.

So let’s say you have an Orcish witch with the Slumber hex whose Imp familiar carries a vial of Oil of Enemy’s Heart and a whetted sickle. You take your action to Slumber a nearby enemy; your familiar then swoops in as a move action and applies Oil of Enemy’s Heart as a standard action. As part of that action, it gets to perform a coup de gras.

Okay, an imp’s going to deliver a pretty crappy coup de gras. 1d3+1 x4 is only a DC 22 on average. That’s pretty easy to pump, though...every +1 damage from bard song or whatever adds 4 to the DC with a sickle’s modifier. Or maybe one of your party members would like be the designated annointer.

Applying the oil provokes AoOs, as does a coup de gras. Still, the ability to move and coup de gras in the same round is a nifty option.

The trick is a little pricey, 300g a pop...half that if your witch takes the Cauldron hex.

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you could just take 2 metamagic reduction traits and wait tell you can cast 4th level spells. then it would be a swift for the spell and a full round coup.

but good luck staying in a party when you are cutting out the hearts of helpless humanoids and eating them in front of everyone...


One problem - here's the text on applying potions:

"A character can carefully administer a potion to an unconscious creature as a full-round action, trickling the liquid down the creature's throat. Likewise, it takes a full-round action to apply an oil to an unconscious creature."


Drat! Good catch, Bill.

Hmm...does that mean it's a standard action to put an oil on someone that's helpless and not unconscious--paralyzed, for example?


"coup de grace" please


Too late to edit, alas. My fault for not studying French.


Well, I suppose, people could want to be hit with fat if warm, squishy, and tasty rather than like a brick of frozen lard.

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