RP wise I think we're at too much of a cranial here. I realise its not a lagging skill but the idea of using cranial to open combat is you often can knock them out with it.

An Anti-paladin doing this would more likely go for the 'lets see if his skull will cave-in' approach if your going for brute force. Personally I believe their cruel and malevolant nature would be more for the 'lets take them down with this here sleep spell and let them suffer a while'. Lets keep in mind that while brute force is a means, cruel and effective torture would be the ends. Thats why skill like cleave are imployed because it gives them the option of going for a purely brutish attack over using their powerful utilities. This would simply be another cleave with a knock-out instead of insta-kill. Sorry if I trivialised it too much, but I do feel its to closely related to cranial and blackjack. I'm still stubbornly sticking to my idea of giving AP's a small selection of aura's to use.


GinGa.