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<blockquote data-quote="Paul Farquhar" data-source="post: 7366535" data-attributes="member: 6906155"><p>That's really fishing. You must really really hate that druid. In 5e negative hp do not exist. This does not mean that the whole amount of damage is not applied if it is greater than the amount of hp remaining. It just means the excess damage is meaningless (with the specific exception of the animal form druid).</p><p></p><p>And the reason you do not apply the damage 1 hp at a time is not because we are "reasonably intelligent people". You cannot invoke "reasonable intelligence" if you are Reading as Written. RAW means reading as a computer would, taking every instruction absolutely literally. The Instruction says apply the damage THEN it says check for zero hp. It explicitly does <em>not</em> say "check for zero hp whilst applying the damage" which is what you would have to instruct a computer to do if you intended for it to disintegrate the animal form.</p><p></p><p>If you wish to apply "reasonable intelligence" then "reasonable intelligence" means accepting that the written word is often ambiguous and seeking to infer the intent of the writer (in a way a computer is incapable of doing). In which case, RAI means the druid survives. Either way the druid survives.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Paul Farquhar, post: 7366535, member: 6906155"] That's really fishing. You must really really hate that druid. In 5e negative hp do not exist. This does not mean that the whole amount of damage is not applied if it is greater than the amount of hp remaining. It just means the excess damage is meaningless (with the specific exception of the animal form druid). And the reason you do not apply the damage 1 hp at a time is not because we are "reasonably intelligent people". You cannot invoke "reasonable intelligence" if you are Reading as Written. RAW means reading as a computer would, taking every instruction absolutely literally. The Instruction says apply the damage THEN it says check for zero hp. It explicitly does [I]not[/I] say "check for zero hp whilst applying the damage" which is what you would have to instruct a computer to do if you intended for it to disintegrate the animal form. If you wish to apply "reasonable intelligence" then "reasonable intelligence" means accepting that the written word is often ambiguous and seeking to infer the intent of the writer (in a way a computer is incapable of doing). In which case, RAI means the druid survives. Either way the druid survives. [/QUOTE]
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