Good news, it was only Power Word Pain so. That was nice.
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As a DM you should not be asking your players about their HP totals directly in order to target them with Power Words (or Sleep)
Whoever downvoted, I'd be interested in hearing why you disagree.
I didn't down-voted. However, I would somehow disagree. Knowing how badly injured are the PC allows to adapt the tactic, in both direction. Yes the warrior is a tank who can take tons of hit (is there really games where PC have 100 HP ? that much ? ) and you have that social character who can't do much in combat, who is usually unconscious at the end of the first-round. So knowing how much HP do the PC have helps managing the right level of power against them and avoid stupid character death.