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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 6688853" data-attributes="member: 58197">I would say that the special rule for polymorph (revert to normal form, apply spillover damage to your normal hit points) is applied before checking for instant death. So, if you have 10 hp, and you're polymorphed into a mouse with 1 hp:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">If you take 2 damage, you are reduced to 0 and apply polymorph rules first. You revert to human form with 1 spillover damage. You apply that damage to your human hit points and have 9 hp left. You are no longer at 0 hit points, so instant death doesn't happen.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">If you take 21 damage, you revert to human form with 20 spillover damage. You apply that damage to your human hit points and are reduced to 0, with 10 damage left over. Since that damage equals your max hit points in human form, instant death kicks in and you die.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">If you are hit by power word kill, you just die. Per the text, the spell ends if you are reduced to 0 or die. You have not been reduced to 0, but you have died, so the spell ends and you revert to normal form. You're still dead.</li> </ul>Notably, you are vulnerable to power word kill in mouse form even if your normal form has too many hit points to be affected.</blockquote>