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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ravenheart" data-source="post: 4633860" data-attributes="member: 72088">My PCs are regularly their own worst enemies, as they have a penchant for failing important attacks, heal checks, death saves. To make things worse, I (as the DM) usually dish out a steady flow of high rolls; add a couple of criticals to that mix and suddenly the group of brave adventurers are near-TPK:ed by a band of lowly and dimwitted kobolds. Now, I know there's little you can do about bad luck/karma (and I assure, I don't use loaded dice! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" />) - therefore, I devised these abilities for the PC's to fall back on if the going gets too rough. And remember that they are immediate interrupts, thus not usable ad infinitum!But I agree with you, the alter fate power might still be a bit overpowering. I mentioned this in my design notes (which I forgot to attach in my previous post; remind me not to post when I should be sleeping!), but I wanted a second opinion first. I thought about adding this to the effect line (as well as the Necrotic keyword):   [FONT=&quot]You fail a death save and take necrotic damage equal to your healing surge value.[/FONT]Now, maybe that's a bit overkill, but either/or could also work. What do you think?Attached are my design notes.</blockquote>

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