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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JimAde" data-source="post: 2636786" data-attributes="member: 16739">That feather fall example isn't in the SRD and I don't have my PH here, but I seem to remember it says "more than 5 feet."  In that case, it can react when you've already fallen the 5 feet, since that won't damage you.I guess the question for the original poster, rather than quibbling about whether hit points are lost one at a time, is: Is there ANY time between when you take a lethal wound and when you actually die?  Realistically, of course, there generally is.  Without getting too morbid, if you get shot through the heart I imagine your brain keeps functioning at some level for at least a few seconds.  Plenty of time for a contingency to go off, even though the rules say no such thing.  As a GM I would allow the "if I take a fatal wound" contingency and just rule that the spell goes off in the split second between the wound being inflicted and the character's actual death.  Now someone will point out that I said "the rules say no such thing and this is the rules forum so get lost," but there you go. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>