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<blockquote data-quote="The Crimson Binome" data-source="post: 6859622" data-attributes="member: 6775031">In my (fairly extensive) experience, Close Wounds in 3E worked more like Revivify does in 5E, in that it would prevent the need for an expensive Raise Dead, but it wouldn't usually bring them back into the fight.It's just a side effect of how the different editions treated zero HP. In 3E, bringing someone up to positive single-digit HP was usually a death sentence, since the next hit would likely drop them below -20. If an attack would already take them down to -10, though, then Close Wounds could reactively keep them alive and stable in the negatives. And depending on DM interpretation or errata in use, you could also use it to save characters from death effects (which simply brought the character to negative ten.)Of course, Close Wounds + Heal would get someone from insta-dead to full in a single initiative pass, and that was around when I stopped playing 3E.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The Crimson Binome, post: 6859622, member: 6775031"] In my (fairly extensive) experience, [I]Close Wounds[/I] in 3E worked more like [I]Revivify[/I] does in 5E, in that it would prevent the need for an expensive [I]Raise Dead[/I], but it wouldn't usually bring them back into the fight. It's just a side effect of how the different editions treated zero HP. In 3E, bringing someone up to positive single-digit HP was usually a death sentence, since the next hit would likely drop them below -20. If an attack would already take them down to -10, though, then [I]Close Wounds[/I] could reactively keep them alive and stable in the negatives. And depending on DM interpretation or errata in use, you could also use it to save characters from death effects (which simply brought the character to negative ten.) Of course, [I]Close Wounds[/I] + [I]Heal[/I] would get someone from insta-dead to full in a single initiative pass, and that was around when I stopped playing 3E. [/QUOTE]

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