Multi-Coup De Gras

[Demon_King]

Recently, a player in my Game snuck into a room with 5 sleeping enemies. She wanted to Coup De Gras them all. She had passed the Initial Stealth Check, and was able to use sneak attack. I couldn't find a ruling in the book, so I ruled that as long as she killed them outright that she would not have to reroll a stealth check. and she managed to do so. I am still wondering if I made the right call or should her roll a stealth check after each kill? Should I have made some kind of roll to see if the other soldiers woke up?

[Christopher Dudley]

Although I don't think there's a rule anywhere stating how loud it is when you kill someone, I'd suggest another stealth check each time would still be appropriate.

And I'm probably a terrible person, but the subject line has me imagining the PC killing people with bags of lard.

[blackbloodtroll]

I would have gone with a Stealth check each time.

Changes in circumstance.

[claudekennilol]

It definitely wasn't a wrong call. I probably would have asked for a stealth check for/during/after/whatever each kill, but there's no where that explicitly says how to handle this kind of thing.

[blackbloodtroll]

Yeah, you are not "wrong".

It's just not explicitly covered, so you did the DM thing, and made a ruling.

Everyone seems happy, and if so, you did good.

[Murdock Mudeater]

Is the PC able to kill all of them in a single round? If so, one stealth check. Just do a new stealth check each round.

[thorin001]

Multiple actions generally require multiple stealth checks. Since each CDG is its own action each should require its own stealth check.

Strict RAW a CDG is an attack so stealth is automatically broken, but that hardly seems appropriate for the circumstances. A slightly less strict reading of RAW has each CDG as combat which is DC 0 to notice, but sleepers get a -10 to the roll.

Remember, however easy you make it for the PCs to slaughter sleeping foes is how easy it is for the bad guys to do it to them.

[Mark Sweetman]

Strict RAW: Breaking Stealth: ... Your Stealth immediately ends after you make an attack roll, whether or not the attack is successful.

As a CDG doesn't require an attack roll - technically it doesn't explicitly break stealth.

I would've gone with a Stealth check after each CDG - with appropriate modifiers depending on the situation. A CDG with a dagger (slit throat) being quieter than a CDG with an earthbreaker.

Probably DC 15 (modified up to 25) if the CDG was successful.
DC 5-10 (modified up to 15-20) if the CDG didn't autokill, or they were using a bludgeoning weapon.