Giving potions to unconscious characters

[jeffh]

Under potions in the DMG 3.0 p. 191 it says "a character can carefully administer a potion to an unconscious creature as a full-round action..." I had to look this rule up when a character in my group had to give a cure light potion to the cleric. Unfortunately, she didn't have the heal skill, which would have let her know this, and just dumped the potion down his throat. So, I looked up drowning rules and the cleric failed every single save. I think I even gave him an extra Fort save to cough up the potion. Needless to say, (though I say it anyway) the cleric drowned, giving rise to the saying Death By Healing Potion!

A potion vial has a capacity of one ounce. I don't care what kind of RBGM you are, that's nowhere near enough liquid to drown someone.

 

[Corbert]

A potion vial has a capacity of one ounce. I don't care what kind of RBGM you are, that's nowhere near enough liquid to drown someone.

Oops. Um, would you believe I have very tiny characters in my game? Well, that's what I get for not reading the potion description carefully. Anyway, the PC's had fun.

 

[jeffh]

Oops. Um, would you believe I have very tiny characters in my game? Well, that's what I get for not reading the potion description carefully. Anyway, the PC's had fun.

Well, the last sentence of that is all the justification you really need, but it seemed worth pointing out anyway.