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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Iry" data-source="post: 6821454" data-attributes="member: 6777378">The number of death saving throws is reset to zero when you regain any hit points or become stable. This means a Vampire can repeatedly damage you and reduce your maximum hit points down to 0 as long as he can stabilize you before death. Vampires with Medicine or Spare the Dying will have the easiest time of it.BUT!! (Dramatic Drumroll)When damage reduces you to 0 hit points and there is damage remaining, you die if the remaining damage equals or exceeds your hit point maximum. A vampire deals 7 Piercing and 10 Necrotic damage (unless you roll for damage). In order to rise as a vampire in this way you must have 10 or fewer maximum hit points.If you have 1-8 maximum hit points remaining, then 17 damage will invoke Instant Death. This means you need exactly 9 or 10 hit points to avoid Instant Death and die through having your maximum hit points reduced to 0.But that is silly and should just be handwaved.</blockquote>