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    D&D 5E Healing and Negative HP

    OK, I follow your math of how death occurred in both A and B, just a matter of which hit was a crit is the difference between 3-4 fails. But I was erroneously focusing on the grand total of damage = instant death, not "any subsequent damage taken is a death fail, and a crit is two." ALSO I...
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    D&D 5E Healing and Negative HP

    OK got it. Thanks! I don't WANT to kill any characters but I get what you are saying. This is just a skirmish over an artifact, however if I ever run Curse of Strahd I WILL run Strahd and the undead trying to kill characters 100%. So in that case just keep track of attacks that hit = failed...
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    D&D 5E Healing and Negative HP

    This is longwinded so the tldr; "Do I ignore massive amounts of negative HP, unless it outright kills someone, and have a healing potion starts them back in the positive from 0 HP?" Fairly new DM (a year and change) currently playing Storm's King Thunder, after the Starter Set and a home-brew...
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