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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7044934" data-attributes="member: 29398">This looks like a bug in the system to me.  Quick fix: either jump up the level or the gp cost of Revivify by a whole bunch, so the exhaustion removal becomes a flat-out better option.Thinking more generally: one way to eliminate or greatly reduce "whack-a-mole" would be to somehow curtail or nearly eliminate in-combat healing.  Instead of having it as just another fact of combat, make in-combat healing dangerous, risky, and therefore exciting to try; and if nobody wants to risk it then if you're down, you're down until the battle's over.  Problem is, 5e seems to expect in-combat healing as a fact of life...grumble grumble dumb design...OK, on to plan B.Plan B might be to make it that if you hit 0 and survive you need at least a short rest before continuing; until then you are provisionally at 1 h.p., cannot go higher (you are "incurable"), and on taking any strenuous action you risk passing out from the strain; if you die and are revived the same incurability applies until you've had a long rest (or two, or three?).  Yes this might shorten a few adventuring days now and then, but if you're getting beat up this badly you probably want to call it a day anyway. <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=":)" />Lanefan</blockquote>

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