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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lackhand" data-source="post: 4116671" data-attributes="member: 36160">Dread Thread Necromancy!My proposed 'introduce downtime' rule is the Death Flag and the Wounded condition.With the death flag down: * Three failed saves while below 0 hp inflicts the Wounded condition, not the Dead condition. * Falling below 0 hp with no healing surges left also automatically inflicts this condition. * Falling below the death threshold (negative Bloodied hit points) continues to apply the Dead condition as normal. At the player's discretion OR at the DM's discretion, the wounded condition may be applied if the player is dealt more points of damage than their constitution while unconscious.With the death flag up: * The character may use 1 AP/ round (which of course still counts against their total available). * The character may use as many second winds per combat as they have healing surges available. * The character immediately gains 1 free AP and 1 free healing surge. * Falling below 0 hp automatically inflicts the wounded condition. * Failing 3 saves while below 0 hp inflicts the Dead condition.Wounded: A character who is wounded suffers three penalties:1) They do not regain healing surges.2) They may not have more hit points than their Bloodied number; any abilities which apply until the end of the encounter when bloodied do not apply.3) They are helpless.Certain powers overcome certain aspects of this Wounded condition. Healing from any divine character of over 10th level removes condition 3; from a divine character of over 20th level removes condition 2.Bedrest: Each day of bedrest allows a character to make a save against each of the 3 conditions in reverse order: First, a daily save against "helplessness"; once that's passed, then a daily save against "bloody", then a daily save to again regain healing surges.Characters can become wounded by pushing too hard, but in the course of regular adventuring, they do not; similarly, it's almost impossible for a character to die now, since they cannot bleed out, but if they _do_ bleed out the wound, while not life threatening, was incapacitating, which means an (expected) week of no adventuring.Edit: The truly bloody-minded DM might alter the third step of this healing process so that one doesn't regain all healing surges at once, but instead regains constitution-modifier (min 1) surges per day, just to stretch out the recovery time. Similarly, what happens if one is Wounded while already Wounded? I say Death. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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