nonlethal damage

[Creeping Death]

I just want to check to make sure that I am understanding the rules correctly.

A 1st level fighter with 10 hp gets punched for 5 points of nonlethal damage. The next round he gets hit with a sword for 6 points of damage. Is he now unconcious?

What if the events happened in the opposite order? First 6 points of lethal damage and then 5 points of nonlethal damage.

Are they separate enought that 11 points of nonlethal or 11 points of lethal damage have to be delt in order for the fighter to go unconcious?

Thanks,

 

[mvincent]

I just want to check to make sure that I am understanding the rules correctly.

A 1st level fighter with 10 hp gets punched for 5 points of nonlethal damage. The next round he gets hit with a sword for 6 points of damage. Is he now unconcious?

Yes

What if the events happened in the opposite order?

Same result: still unconcious.

 

[AuraSeer]

The fighter ends up unconscious either way. As soon as your current nonlethal damage total is greater than your current hit points, you're out cold.

In your example, after the two hits, the fighter has 5 points of nonlethal damage and 4 current hit points. Since 5 > 4, he is knocked out.

Either way, nonlethal damage is recovered at 1 point per hour per character level. As soon as he heals 1 point of that, his nonlethal damage equal to his current hit points (4=4), so he wakes up and is staggered. Healing one point more than that makes him no longer staggered, and he can take full normal actions again.

 

[Creeping Death]

Thanks, that is what I thought, just wanted to make sure.

 

[Li Shenron]

The order doesn't matter. But it is important to notice that if the total nonlethal+lethal damage brings you below 0, but the lethal damage alone would not bring you below 0, you are unconscious but not dying (you don't lose hp automatically).