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<blockquote data-quote="seebs" data-source="post: 6761059" data-attributes="member: 61529">Okay, this argument makes some sense to me. So, here's a possible counterargument: What if the dust effect is also &quot;an interrupt&quot;, that bypasses the normal process of applying damage? Think about how it worked in 3rd edition. An attack other than this which merely reduced you to 0hp hadn't even reduced you to &quot;dying&quot; yet; you were still conscious and could take actions (although doing so could cause you to start &quot;dying&quot;). But disintegrate has a special rule, and the moment you hit 0hp, the normal process is interrupted and you are dusted.So my reading of the disintegrate spell in 5e would have been the same; if you are reduced to 0hp, there is an interrupt and you are dusted instead of continuing with damage application as normal.But now we have two interrupts, and it's not obvious how to resolve that. There's no general rule I can find on what to do when multiple things proc off the same trigger. Consider what happens if you polymorph someone into a half-orc, for instance. When they hit 0, do they get to use the half-orc racial, or do they revert?And the answer is &quot;we don't know&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="seebs, post: 6761059, member: 61529"] Okay, this argument makes some sense to me. So, here's a possible counterargument: What if the dust effect is [b]also[/b] "an interrupt", that bypasses the normal process of applying damage? Think about how it worked in 3rd edition. An attack other than this which merely reduced you to 0hp hadn't even reduced you to "dying" yet; you were still conscious and could take actions (although doing so could cause you to start "dying"). But disintegrate has a special rule, and the moment you hit 0hp, the normal process is interrupted and you are dusted. So my reading of the disintegrate spell in 5e would have been the same; if you are reduced to 0hp, there is an interrupt and you are dusted instead of continuing with damage application as normal. But now we have two interrupts, and it's not obvious how to resolve that. There's no general rule I can find on what to do when multiple things proc off the same trigger. Consider what happens if you polymorph someone into a half-orc, for instance. When they hit 0, do they get to use the half-orc racial, or do they revert? And the answer is "we don't know". [/QUOTE]

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