<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=345578.msg16293615#msg16293615">Quote from: Vreski on 24-09-2022, 23:16:57</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Is it ok for me to be attacking with the broadside of my greatsword for non lethal damage? I would like to have done that for the goblins too. Muula would prefer not to kill most things. Maybe giant bugs though<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>I did check if there possible non-lethal approach and I found it;<br/><br/><strong>Knocking a Creature Out</strong><br/><br/><em>Sometimes an attacker wants to incapacitate a foe, rather than deal a killing blow.<br/><br/>When an attacker reduces a creature to 0 hit points with a melee attack, the attacker can knock the creature out.<br/><br/>The attacker can make this choice the instant the damage is dealt. The creature falls unconscious and is stable.”<br/><br/>Player’s Handbook, p198</em><br/><br/>So, it is basically any attack which pushes creature to 0 HP and you then decide is creature down and bleeding (dying) or just knocked out.<br/>