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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ECMO3" data-source="post: 9813588" data-attributes="member: 7030563">If we are talking RAW laying down and letting someone stab you in the heart will not kill you.It is disingenous to bring up RAW to defend part of your hypothesis and then ignore RAW for another part of it.  It is simply not possible RAW for a high level character with full hit points to be killed from being attacked by someone with a dagger, nor is it possible RAW to die from jumping off 100 foot cliff.Moreover RAW 5E does not say (as you did) that your actual "meat" hit points are only your constitution bonus.  What it says is:  "Hit points represent a combination of physical and mental durability, the will to live, and luck. "On my 150 hp fighter that could break down into 147 hit points of physical durability, 1 hit point of mental durability, 1 hit point of luck and 1 hit points of will to live</blockquote>