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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hawkeyefan" data-source="post: 8550274" data-attributes="member: 6785785">I honestly think your rules here are opening things up for more deaths. Certainly, Rule 1 here introduces insta-kills which otherwise do not exist in 5e. And I expect that this will potentially happen quite a bit once you’re a few levels into the game. If my 4th level fighter has 5 HP left and then takes a hit for like 20 HP or so, he’s dead. That doesn’t seem unlikely to happen. In the rules as written, he’d be at 0 HP and making death saves….far less lethal take. The second rule seems to only drag out the dying process by replacing Death Saves with a constant -1/round until the threshold is reached. So 6 to 15 rounds I suppose. I don’t think this one is all that problematic, I just don’t think it will accomplish a reduction in lethality.The third rule leaves some questions open. What if I make my DC 15 Con save and remain conscious but at 0 HP. And then as I make my way toward the cleric, I get hit by an enemy…what happens? I assume that if I take HP significant enough to exceed my threshold, then the PC dies outright. But maybe that’s not what you intend? Also, requiring healing to exceed the threshold seems to make it very hard for low level characters (impossible for 1st level PCs, I think) to get back into the fight.Honestly, I think these rules will make the game more lethal. Perhaps significantly so, unless I’ve misunderstood.5E Is pretty forgiving on the lethality. I think if you wanted to reduce that even further, then simply remove the need for Death Saves entirely, or else increase the failures needed for a PC to die. Don’t introduce insta-kills at all. At 0 HP, a character is down and out of the fight, and very unlikely to be targeted by enemy attacks.  You can apply the same thing to NPCs. They’re out of the fight at 0 HP. But unless the players specifically state they want to finish them off, you can assume they get up and slink away after the fight, or they can be imprisoned or what have you.</blockquote>

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