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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 9482522" data-attributes="member: 93670">It's not clear if you are talking about the 2024dmg specifically or more broadly.  Either way, 2e dmg pg104 had such a rule[spoiler="here"]Hovering on Death’s Door(Optional Rule) You might find that your campaign has become particu-larly deadly. Too many player characters are dying. If thishappens, you may want to allow characters to survive forshort periods of time even after their hit points reach ordrop below 0. When this rule is in use, a character can remain aliveuntil his hit points reach –10. However, as soon as thecharacter reaches 0 hit points, he falls to the groundunconscious. Thereafter, he automatically loses one hit point eachround. His survival from this point on depends on the quickthinking of his companions. If they reach the characterbefore his hit points reach –10 and spend at least oneround tending to his wounds—stanching the flow of blood,etc., the character does not die immediately. If the only action is to bind his wounds, the injured char-acter no longer loses one hit point each round, but neitherdoes he gain any. He remains unconscious and vulnerableto damage from further attacks. If a cure spell of some type is cast upon him, the charac-ter is immediately restored to 1 hit point—no more. Furthercures do the character no good until he has had at least oneday of rest. Until such time, he is weak and feeble, unableto fight and barely able to move. He must stop and restoften, can’t cast spells (the shock of near death has wipedthem from his mind), and is generally confused and fever-ish. He is able to move and can hold somewhat disjointedconversations, but that’s it. If a heal spell is cast on the character, his hit points arerestored as per the spell, and he has full vitality and wits.Any spells he may have known are still wiped from hismemory. (Even this powerful spell does not negate theshock of the experience.)[/spoiler]I'm still waiting to see if wotc put any variant rules in the 2024dmg though</blockquote>

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