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Message: <blockquote data-quote="drnuncheon" data-source="post: 259589" data-attributes="member: 96">OK. It helps if you know where the source for this is, but if you're not familiar with things like Russian folk tales and other stories where powerful wizards can remove their hearts or hide their lives in the bones of their little finger, it's no biggie.It's pretty simple.  You cast the spell, cut off your little finger, drop 5000 xp, and hide the finger in a tree (or whatever - maybe inside an egg that's inside a duck that's inside a hare that's inside a basket that's inside a chest buried beneath an oak tree on an uncharted island in the middle of the ocean).Now, 10 years later, along comes some no-account hero.  He steps up and whacks you with his sword a few times, and takes you down to -5 hp before you kill him.  A normal person would be unconscious and bleeding to death, but you are merely staggered - that is, only able to take partial actions.  You don't lose 1 hp every round for bleeding, you don't lose a hp for taking actions while at 0 or lower hp. When you get to your cache of cure serious wounds potions, you heal yourself normally.A year and a day later, the hero's younger brother comes along.  He's upset that you offed his big bro, and he whacks you until you go down to -20 hp before you finally manage to kill him. You're still staggered, instead of stone dead like any normal person ought to be.  However, you can no longer benefit from healing, because you should be dead.  It's unclear whether this means just healing magic, or if it means *any* healing - by the book, it sure seems like the latter.  I'm not sure if raise dead or similar spells would restore your ability to be healed or not.  Otherwise, sucks to be you, because you'll be staggered for the rest of your existence. (Invest in a ring of regeneration next time.)So, you spend a year and a day taking only partial actions and griping about heros. Finally, the youngest brother of the three shows up.  He doesn't have a sword, which is good, because you're still at -20 hp. You get ready to drop a meteor swarm on his pointy little head, but he holds up a piece of bone. It's your little finger!  How the heck did he find the island, let alone get the duck out of the hare? The salesman swore it was the vorpal rabbit from the Cave of Aaaargh!  In any case, the youngest son breaks the fingerbone, and the spell ends.You're at -20 hp.  Buh-bye.All clear now? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />J</blockquote>

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