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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 8126961" data-attributes="member: 20564">That reminds me of another PC death, back from AD&D 2nd.  Important for those not familiar (I'm sure you are) that you died at -10 HPs, there were no death saves like 5e.  You bled 1 HP every round until your wounds were tended.  (And also no healing from zero.)Huge set piece battle at the end of a whole campaign arc, with multiple areas in a temple(?) that the fight was happening.  Our wizard falls early in the battle to area of effect damage.  We're getting pounded like crazy, mostly by some sort of fire creatures, when I remember our wizard had a Ring of Fire Resistance (we did party treasure, so we all knew who had what).  I moved back into the room he was in which was hard to see in, find the body and grab the ring and put it on.We continue the battle, and manage to finally win though several people were down.  At which point I get informed that our wizard had only been at -8 HPs and if I had bound his wounds he would have lived.  I had thought he was in deep negatives (well past -10) from the initial attack, I never asked to check out the body.It was a DMPC and the DM didn't mention anything (like he would have for other PCs, or at least given a secret roll to notice) because he stayed away from any appearance that could look like favoritism towards his DMPC.  But still, felt really bad.</blockquote>