that exact thing, no... similar rules shenanigans yes.Have you ever seen something like this happen at your table? What do you think about this tactic?
I have a hafling wizard that is a diviner with the lucky feat... I would jump at this trick, cause I have so many get out of jail free cards, but having said that, I still would warn about abuseThe risk is rolling a nat 1 and dying due to accruing two death save fails on top of the one you already have. So it's good to be a halfling in this case since you can reroll the 1. (Or having access to anything that'll let you do some rerolls as needed.)
I just don't see much of an issue with abuse. It's risky, particularly for non-halflings, as you can just take the L on the time pressure and not put the stable character at risk (presuming the time pressure isn't something like "you all die"). For your halfling diviner, luck is your super power so it's on brand in my view to take a chance on a dangerous magic surgery.I have a hafling wizard that is a diviner with the lucky feat... I would jump at this trick, cause I have so many get out of jail free cards, but having said that, I still would warn about abuse
As DM, the lack of preparation of the PCs is nothing I care about. If anything, I encourage it to get my body count up.Certainly meta thinking and if I allowed it I would likely allow it to perma-kill the PC if it failed after the first or second attempt. Falls into the 'bag of rats' trick to me.
Bigger question is why a group of PCs went into a dungeon with no potions of healing. Maybe if they were 1st level or something, but they should know to be more careful if they have no potions.
Also, shouldn't the players cry foul on the DM and make up some crap about non-level encounters or at least point to something in the DMG that says each level of a dungeon must have 3-4 potions to be found.![]()