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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kerrick" data-source="post: 5045882" data-attributes="member: 4722">Ah.And that's always a good thing.Random chance of survival sucks. I'm honestly unsure why they didn't go with some kind of save (Con or Fort) instead of a 10% chance. That's pretty much a death sentence for anyone cut off from his friends.Yeah, there is that.You're going to have that problem with just about any system, unless you make the death threshold equal to max hit points (which would make most PCs practically unkillable except for SoD effects). You could rule that anyone dropped to below his death threshold with one hit gets a free Fort save on the next round; if the save fails, he dies, and if it succeeds, he remains unconscious but dying. As long as he keeps making successful saves, he remains hovering on death's door (call it "clinging to life") - since he's below his normal threshold, he can't stabilize on his own, but this gives the others a chance to save him. The first save he fails, though - boom, he's dead.</blockquote>