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<blockquote data-quote="seebs" data-source="post: 6762709" data-attributes="member: 61529">This is a stunningly good argument against your position, by virtue of being completely wrong.Say you are polymorphed (all the polymorph rules appear to be the same) into a form with 75 hit points of damage, and you take 80 points from a disintegrate. Your argument is that, when you've applied 75 hit points and hit zero, you haven't yet applied &quot;this damage&quot;; it doesn't count as &quot;this damage&quot; until you revert and take the 5 excess.Now consider someone who isn't polymorphed, and who has 75 hit points left. You hit them with an 80-point disintegrate. Now what? You apply 75 damage. Now you're done. But your argument tells us that you have not yet applied &quot;this damage&quot; when you apply 75 damage and end up at 0. So if we believe that your argument is correct, disintegrate can only proc on non-polymorphed people when it reduces them to 0 exactly with no excess.The sheer incoherence of this is actually the best argument I've seen yet against the notion that disintegrate doesn't proc off the druid's hit points temporarily hitting 0.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="seebs, post: 6762709, member: 61529"] This is a stunningly good argument against your position, by virtue of being completely wrong. Say you are polymorphed (all the polymorph rules appear to be the same) into a form with 75 hit points of damage, and you take 80 points from a disintegrate. Your argument is that, when you've applied 75 hit points and hit zero, you haven't yet applied "this damage"; it doesn't count as "this damage" until you revert and take the 5 excess. Now consider someone who [b]isn't[/b] polymorphed, and who has 75 hit points left. You hit them with an 80-point disintegrate. Now what? You apply 75 damage. Now you're done. But your argument tells us that you have not yet applied "this damage" when you apply 75 damage and end up at 0. So if we believe that your argument is correct, disintegrate can only proc on non-polymorphed people when it reduces them to 0 exactly with no excess. The sheer incoherence of this is actually the best argument I've seen yet [b]against[/b] the notion that disintegrate doesn't proc off the druid's hit points temporarily hitting 0. [/QUOTE]

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