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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JohnSnow" data-source="post: 4035287" data-attributes="member: 32164">Well, I'd argue that a long-running campaign is more like a TV series than a movie. The analog to the movie (or TV episode) is probably a single adventure. So the question you should ask is: how likely is it this will happen to each and every PC in each and every fight in one adventure?I think it's pretty unlikely. It might happen to one PC in every fight, or it might happen to one PC in some fights, none in others, and more than one in a big knockdown, drag-out fight with the BBEG. The best comparison I can give is to look at an action adventure series like, say, Firefly, Stargate: SG-1, Buffy: The Vampire Slayer, The Magnificent Seven or even Star Trek. The chances of a dramatic recovery happening a couple times an episode is pretty high. And it usually goes up when more heroic characters are involved.I don't think PCs will be routinely plunging to negative hit points, but it could happen. And when it does, there's a 5% chance that they'll bounce back. So in other words, 1 time in 20 when a PC actually hits negative hit points, he's gonna "pull an Inigo Montoya."Personally, I can live with probabilities like that.</blockquote>