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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Willie the Duck" data-source="post: 9866057" data-attributes="member: 6799660">For all the talk about how easy-mode 5e is, if someone is considering trying to get this in-combat healing, it probably means they are headed towards 0. Given that we're talking about a handful of hit points compared to a 1/3* reduction in post-downed survivability, this is going to be a good tactical decision in a handful of cases:*more, since each click on the death save scale are not equal, what with attacks on downed characters  from within 5' mark off 2 death saves.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">At really low levels when it might effectively double (approximately) your HP available.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">When going down basically means dead (maybe your PC is on their own, and facing things that you know will kill them before they regain consciousness)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">when going down basically means not needing death saves (you have a party with plenty enough in-combat healing, coordinate/cooperate well, and you are not in a position to take several hits (especially melee hits) before any allies will get you back above 0.</li> </ul>So I think the biggest downside is that (for most of the game) it is one of those benefit-with-cost effects that strongly incentivizes finding use-cases where the cost isn't really costly. If healing options were less plentiful in 5e, there would be more instances where it would sometimes make sense to use this when death saves had value, and thus more interesting tactical decisions would come about as a result of this rule existing. In the game as it otherwise exists, I'm not sure that's the case.</blockquote>

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