1d10 Ways to Make that Attack Action Sound Cooler

You just swung a 'sword' at a 'bandit' and you hit them for some 'damage.' Let's make it sound cool.

1d10 Ways to Make that Attack Action Sound Cooler

1. You feint a thrust to the head and the foe loses their nerve, flinching momentarily to cover their exposed eyes. In that moment, you slash your cutlass across their thigh, tearing through their clothing and inflicting a shallow cut.

2. Your opponent eyes you warily and shifts their footing, only to stumble momentarily over an uneven flagstone. She looks at the floor momentarily and you strike, a slash to the wrist that clearly stings but fails to pierce their mail.

3. A sloppy mistake- your opponent fails to withdraw their weapon after you parry a thrust. Using your free hand, you grab the spearshaft and pull it to the side, causing the foe to stumble forward into your deadly counterattack. He stumbles backward, bleeding heavily from his now-empty eye socket.

4. Your foe over-commits to an overhead cut, which you catch on the blade of your longsword and turn aside. While they are off-balance, you strike them in the side of the helmet with the pommel of your sword, then a second time, then a third. She falls to the floor, motionless.

5. You barely give your opponent a chance to blink, sprinting across the chamber with sword in hand. They barely get an inch of blade from their sheathe before you run them clean through the stomach, twist the blade violently, then kick them free. The swordsman staggers back, but somehow manages to stay on his feet. One hand raises his gladius, the other presses down on the mortal wound in his stomach.

6. The opponent surprises you with a lightning-fast kick to the groin, which horribly backfires upon them when their toes break on your armour.

7. Wasting no time, you simply let the weight of your greatsword carry its point through the front foot of your enemy and into the dirt below. A well-placed strike to the forehead with the guard causes the bandit to lose his footing and hit the floor, before you tear the blade free from what's left of his foot.

8. After your first flurry of cuts deflect off the target's plate to no effect, you turn aside their counterattack with your buckler and follow through with a shield-assisted punch to the face.

9. You stare down your opponent for several seconds, pacing in a circle, before you end the fight with a single, precisely-placed rapier thrust through the eye-slit of their greathelm. Your victim barely makes a sound when you withdraw the blade and watch them fall.

10. Your opponent is a skilled swordswoman, and manages to deflect your first chain of attacks with great effort. When you step back to recover her arm is visibly shaking, and you see obvious dents in the blade of their cheaply-made jian.