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<blockquote data-quote="Arial Black" data-source="post: 6760630" data-attributes="member: 6799649">If these things that move you to 1 hp (or, in the case of the druid, to his own hp pool) when reduced to 0 hp don't remove their own trigger then the target suffers the consequences of 0 hp.Druids fall unconscious or die and then move to their own hp, orcs/barbarians actually fall unconscious/die and then heal 1 hp. Even wizards actually get hit (and that hit could kill them!), and then cast a shield spell (while dead!) which somehow draws the javelin back out of their brain, actually heal to the hp total they had before the hit, and the javelin now moves forward again and bounces off a mystical shield which wasn't there when the javelin actually pierced your brain.If you run your games like this....good luck to you. But don't pretend that this interpretation and the 'removes its own trigger' interpretation have equal merit.No-one can actually prove that The Easter Bunny did not create the entire universe, but I wouldn't teach that in schools and claim I'm 'teaching the controversy'. Just because it's possible to come up with an interpretation does not mean that every interpretation is equally likely to be true.Although, at first glance, you could think that both interpretations are fair because of the wording, once you think it through you realise that the consequences of the 'trigger still actually happened' interpretation lead to absurdity, therefore that this interpretation is highly unlikely, to say the least.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Arial Black, post: 6760630, member: 6799649"] If these things that move you to 1 hp (or, in the case of the druid, to his own hp pool) when reduced to 0 hp [b]don't[/b] remove their own trigger then the target suffers the consequences of 0 hp. Druids fall unconscious or die and [b]then[/b] move to their own hp, orcs/barbarians actually fall unconscious/die and [b]then[/b] heal 1 hp. Even wizards actually get hit (and that hit could kill them!), and [b]then[/b] cast a [i]shield[/i] spell (while dead!) which somehow draws the javelin back out of their brain, actually heal to the hp total they had before the hit, and the javelin now moves forward again and bounces off a mystical shield which wasn't there when the javelin actually pierced your brain. If you run your games like this....good luck to you. But don't pretend that this interpretation and the 'removes its own trigger' interpretation have equal merit. No-one can actually [i]prove[/i] that The Easter Bunny did not create the entire universe, but I wouldn't teach that in schools and claim I'm 'teaching the controversy'. Just because it's possible to come up with an interpretation does not mean that every interpretation is equally likely to be true. Although, at first glance, you could think that both interpretations are fair because of the wording, once you think it through you realise that the consequences of the 'trigger still actually happened' interpretation lead to absurdity, therefore that this interpretation is [i]highly[/i] unlikely, to say the least. [/QUOTE]

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