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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 2276374" data-attributes="member: 2011">I concur with this.In our group so far, the Psion 5 / Fighter 2 / Elocater 1 (BAB 4) has died once. He has gone unconscious about once or twice per level. He is played by a tactically smart player, but he is playing him as a fighter type, hence he gets overwhelmed on occasion.The Ranger 5 / Rogue 3 (BAB 7) for the first four levels or so used to go unconscious nearly every battle. The running joke about his character was "Fine time to take a nap" for the longest time. Although that has slowed up considerably, he is almost always seriously injured at the end of combat, even though he has the best AC in the group (shy of my psion buffing herself through the stratosphere which has only happened twice). He is play by a tactically not so smart player (and it shows).The Cleric 5 / Monk 2 / Sacred Fist 1 (BAB 5) rarely goes unconscious, but also rarely contributes to a fight other than an occasional party buff spell and a lot of cure spells. Even when she attacks, she is fairly ineffective. She has the lowest AC in the party by 4, but does not go unconscious often due to playing style (i.e. you will almost never find her in a one on one fight). Since she avoids combat and hangs back a lot, she survives a lot. I'm hoping that the +1 BAB per level of Sacred Fist will make her more effective in combat in the future, but I'm not holding my breath.My Psion 8 (BAB 4) has gone unconscious once. I too play my psion as a fighter type. And, she averages more melee damage per combat than anyone else in the group at the moment (she did not outaverage the Ranger/Barbarian Shifter who left the group). And, I think she stays conscious because I play her intelligently, but that could be my personal bias.We have had four other PCs in the group since first level (two played by the current DM when I was DMing, one played by a player who left the group due to over commitments and the last played by a player who left the group when he broke his neck in a freak scuba diving accident). All of these PCs have gone unconscious on multiple occasions and one of the two played by the other DM died.But as can be seen, the other psion has not been as fortunate as my psion. Part of that may be because he multi-classed and is a power level behind. But, part of it is choice of powers and part of it is playing style.PS. We have a "heal within a round" rule. If you go below -9 and are healed up to -9 within a round, you are still alive. So, although the Ranger has not died yet, he would have repeatedly died without this house rule. In fact, he went to -34 just this last Sunday and was very lucky that 6 of that was non-lethal damage and that the Cleric was close enough to heal him for 21 points (i.e. he went up to -7) within the round.</blockquote>

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