Questions about Unconscious (hex, sleep, wild shape, familiar)

[the Jester]

The familiar is being knocked out by the Druid biting it.

The druid bit the quasit, not the pseudodragon.

 

[Yunru]

The druid bit the quasit, not the pseudodragon.

There is no Quasit in the opening setup, so I'm assuming that was a mistake.

 

[the Jester]

There is no Quasit in the opening setup, so I'm assuming that was a mistake.

Oho, gotcha! That makes more sense now.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

You can't actually do non-lethal damage to planer creatures like familiars, demons etc, or constructs or undead.

TBH, I'm not sure I would allow a druid to do non-lethal damage in wolf form anyway.

 

[the Jester]

You can't actually do non-lethal damage to planer creatures like familiars, demons etc, or constructs or undead.

According to the PH, the only limitation is that you must be making a melee attack. Where did you find this rule?

 

[Yunru]

According to the PH, the only limitation is that you must be making a melee attack. Where did you find this rule?

Most (all?) Planar beings return to their home plane upon dropping to 0.

 

[epithet]

If a hexed creature dies, and the hex is not moved to another target, and the creature's corpse is animated as a zombie, does the hex apply to the zombie?

My answer would be no, since the undead thing is a separate and distinct creature from the dead creature from which it was created.

Does anyone have a different answer?

 

[the Jester]

Most (all?) Planar beings return to their home plane upon dropping to 0.

Again- where is this in the rules? Find familiar and find steed state that familiars and (found) steeds disappear upon reaching 0, but I can't find any general rule to that effect. Neither the angel nor demon entry in the Monster Manual, for example, says anything to that effect, at least not on a once-over. Nor do I find anything that indicates that you can't render an undead or construct unconscious when you reduce it to 0 hit points.

 

[Yunru]

Again- where is this in the rules? Find familiar and find steed state that familiars and (found) steeds disappear upon reaching 0, but I can't find any general rule to that effect. Neither the angel nor demon entry in the Monster Manual, for example, says anything to that effect, at least not on a once-over. Nor do I find anything that indicates that you can't render an undead or construct unconscious when you reduce it to 0 hit points.

Honestly, I haven't looked into it much. I think it was Devils mostly? I know Tiamat does.

 

[Satyrn]

Honestly, I haven't looked into it much. I think it was Devils mostly? I know Tiamat does.

The "rules" are in the fluff descriptions of the monster manual. They aren't written very strictly, though: Demons reform instantly on their home plane "when a lucky hero manages to drop a demon in combat" while a devil reforms "if it dies."

I'd say that when deciding if they can be knocked out instead of killed, there's nothing in what's written that makes ruling one way more right than the other.