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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 3297331" data-attributes="member: 1465">BTW, having a monster/npc "come back" in the same fight because someone healed him doesn't require to roll stabilization checks usually: its healer is going to revive it whether it was stabilized or still going down towards -10. It is extremely rare that you need to check it during a fight (perhaps in the rare case where it is close to -10 already when the cleric tries to heal it).OTOH, having it come back later in the campaign is something that is relevant only for notable monsters/npcs (who cares if goblin #24 comes back 3 weeks later?). And that is something that I rather decide myself and not roll randomly. But even if I want to roll randomly I definitely believe it's not worth to go through the process of 1 roll every round and then rolls every hours etc. but instead I'd just assign a flat % chance and roll a single dice, the net effect is the same.The stabilization rules are designed to help the PCs, or at leat to give them the impression that the can survive even without help. Actually, it might be there also to give players something to do even when their PCs are out of the fight  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> They aren't definitely there to bog down the whole combat as the DM rolls them every round for each fallen orc...</blockquote>

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