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<blockquote data-quote="Voranzovin" data-source="post: 8707368" data-attributes="member: 7020495">When I DM deathless campaigns—and I’m doing one right now—I use hit points but not death saves. Hitting zero hit points, wether you are a PC or NPC, means you are defeated. What that entails depends on the situation. You might be injured and unable to fight until you receive healing. You might be restrained by a stronger opponent so thoroughly you can’t escape. You might surrender (if the player chooses). The important part is that you lost, and hit points are still useful for figuring out whether you lost or not.As an aside, I like DMing this way in part because I can then remove resurrection from the game. I find accepting a universe that works on “Avatar rules”—there’s danger and action but somehow nobody dies because that’s how the genre works—much easier then accepting a universe where anyone can come back from the dead if a priest asks nicely and has some diamonds.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Voranzovin, post: 8707368, member: 7020495"] When I DM deathless campaigns—and I’m doing one right now—I use hit points but not death saves. Hitting zero hit points, wether you are a PC or NPC, means you are defeated. What that entails depends on the situation. You might be injured and unable to fight until you receive healing. You might be restrained by a stronger opponent so thoroughly you can’t escape. You might surrender (if the player chooses). The important part is that you lost, and hit points are still useful for figuring out whether you lost or not. As an aside, I like DMing this way in part because I can then remove resurrection from the game. I find accepting a universe that works on “Avatar rules”—there’s danger and action but somehow nobody dies because that’s how the genre works—much easier then accepting a universe where anyone can come back from the dead if a priest asks nicely and has some diamonds. [/QUOTE]

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