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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jgsugden" data-source="post: 7990944" data-attributes="member: 2629">From the PHB:For abilities like this that trigger on death, they trigger on:* PCs when they take enough damage in one strike to exceed their current hit points by their total max hit points.  Also, if the damage forces a third failed death save.* Monsters can be treated like PCs at the DMs discretion, but the recommendation is that most monsters die at 0 hp.I use house rules: In my campaign world, I have a concept of being 'God Touched'. If you're God Touched, you get the PC rules from the books.  If you're not, you die when your hps reach a negative number equal to (your con modifier + (1 / hit die)).  You also make death saves, but die if you fail one if you're not God Touched and you level incredibly slower (a life long student of magic that is not God Touched might learn third level spells towards the end of their life) if not God Touched.  In practice, unless players show a desire to keep a monster alive that has been reduced to less than zero, they die just like the core rules, but this gives a mechanic to determine if one might be saved to interrogate, etc...</blockquote>