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2e, the most lethal edition?
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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7637852" data-attributes="member: 996"><p>The whole DMG is essentially optional rules. (really, the whole game is, but don't admit it to the players) nb: that's to /exactly/ 0 hit point. If you drop to -1 or fewer you die.</p><p>That's what happens while you're unconscious, after having been reduced to exactly 0. You lose 1 hp per round, going from 0, to -1, etc, down through -9, then die when you reach -10. </p><p></p><p>If you don't take any more damage from an outside source. It's not super-clear what happens if you get hit again when at negatives from bleeding. However, judging from the optional rule, below, if you get hit, again, after reaching exactly 0, well, even if it's only 1 hp, you die.</p><p></p><p>"...you die" six letters, two little words, yet they constitute so much of old-school D&D...</p><p></p><p>...sorry, waxing nostalgic there for a moment.</p><p></p><p>What that actually means is that, under said option, if you are taken from a positive number to 0, -1,-2, or -3 by a single attack, you are unconscious, instead of just when being reduced to /exactly/ 0. You'll start 'bleeding' from there. </p><p></p><p>But, again, it seems if you are hit again, or, say, reduced to 0, then hit for even one more point, well, <broken record> "you die."</p><p></p><p></p><p>They're really neither of them very generous options compared to 2e Death's Door.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tony Vargas, post: 7637852, member: 996"] The whole DMG is essentially optional rules. (really, the whole game is, but don't admit it to the players) nb: that's to /exactly/ 0 hit point. If you drop to -1 or fewer you die. That's what happens while you're unconscious, after having been reduced to exactly 0. You lose 1 hp per round, going from 0, to -1, etc, down through -9, then die when you reach -10. If you don't take any more damage from an outside source. It's not super-clear what happens if you get hit again when at negatives from bleeding. However, judging from the optional rule, below, if you get hit, again, after reaching exactly 0, well, even if it's only 1 hp, you die. "...you die" six letters, two little words, yet they constitute so much of old-school D&D... ...sorry, waxing nostalgic there for a moment. What that actually means is that, under said option, if you are taken from a positive number to 0, -1,-2, or -3 by a single attack, you are unconscious, instead of just when being reduced to /exactly/ 0. You'll start 'bleeding' from there. But, again, it seems if you are hit again, or, say, reduced to 0, then hit for even one more point, well, <broken record> "you die." They're really neither of them very generous options compared to 2e Death's Door. [/QUOTE]
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