11/11/2023 0 Comments 5e dmg lingering injuries![]() Third edition made a minor tweak to this (disabled but conscious at 0 HP, unconscious and dying from -1 to -9 HP, dead at -10). As a result lots of house rules evolved to fill these gaps, the best known being Death's Door (combatant is unconscious and dying at 0 HP but death does not occur until -10 HP) which would become codified into the AD&D rules. ![]() ![]() For many early (and OSR) D&D players this was too deadly, or the lack of results in between fully functioning combatant (>0 HP) and dead (0 HP) didn't mesh well with their image of the outcomes of an armed skirmish (whether real or fictional). In Classic D&D (Original, Holmes & Basic) when your hit points are reduced to zero the result is immediate death. Thanks for asking (apart from the Grognards chortling knowingly into their neckbeards).
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