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<blockquote data-quote="Stormonu" data-source="post: 9069710" data-attributes="member: 52734"><p>Well, as long as you haven't failed any yet, you're not really at risk of dying. Make all three without failing and your stable and just unconscious. I know some players who'd use that as a strategy to conserve resources (I mean, if you got to make all three rolls without failing one, your characters probably not in a directly dire situation. That orc comes over and stabs you while your down? Heck yeah, get that <em>cure wounds</em> rolling. At 0 hp at the bottom of a pit and made all three saves successfully? Likely I can wait until the group gets down there and administers healing or waits until I'm back up so I can save the <em>contingency</em> for a fight later on.</p><p></p><p>I wouldn't have a problem with triggering it on the first death save whether it fails or saves, but I just wouldn't let the player word it in terms of death saves, but as "dying" - I'll figure out the mechanics when it kicks off.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Stormonu, post: 9069710, member: 52734"] Well, as long as you haven't failed any yet, you're not really at risk of dying. Make all three without failing and your stable and just unconscious. I know some players who'd use that as a strategy to conserve resources (I mean, if you got to make all three rolls without failing one, your characters probably not in a directly dire situation. That orc comes over and stabs you while your down? Heck yeah, get that [I]cure wounds[/I] rolling. At 0 hp at the bottom of a pit and made all three saves successfully? Likely I can wait until the group gets down there and administers healing or waits until I'm back up so I can save the [I]contingency[/I] for a fight later on. I wouldn't have a problem with triggering it on the first death save whether it fails or saves, but I just wouldn't let the player word it in terms of death saves, but as "dying" - I'll figure out the mechanics when it kicks off. [/QUOTE]
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