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Originally Posted by Weeblie  Unless you are someone who truly knows all the weak spots of your target (i.e. you are assassin/rogue like), then a dagger in your hands is more to inflict a slow and painful death, and hence by your reasoning torture. |
I have to disagree with this. Any one that has trained with a blade, knows the weak spots. It's not because its a broad sword that it can't be used to slash a throat in a swift pass, to move faster to an other opponent. Even longsword hit on a kidney would leave the opponent bleeding to death slowly. So it's not only assassins and rogues that would know that. The difference in the classes, skills and feats appart, is in the way it will be done. Fighter will go up front unless they need to be silent about it (which would be harder for them as they don't train in that way most of the time. While assassins and rogues will use the shadows and things to hide their approach to attack from the back or in ways that they wouldn't be seen.