RPG Conundrums

[Mark CMG]

Can someone drown in a vat of healing potions?

 

[Random Axe]

Yes. Yes they can.

Healing potions cure hit points. Drowning on the other hand, is not a function of hit points. It's just a function of DROWNING, by a failed constitution check.

SWIMMING
Not to be glib, but they don't even cross concepts.

Hmmm. Now that I've read further into the links of the SRD...
drowning
hmmm

Well, darnit, I still say yes. The healing magic keeps you "stable" at zero hit points, but the lack of oxygen is a major problem that doesn't get addressed by hit points.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Inhaling a healing potion is not quite the same as drinking one, so I'd say yes.

OTOH, if I were EEEEEVIL, I could rule that the Healing Potion keeps you just barely, painfully alive...until you consume (and subsequently excrete) all of its contents, the magic is exhausted, and you complete your drowning.

Pretty nasty method of torture, drowning someone all day...

 

[Mark CMG]

It took my uncle five hours to drown in a beer vat because he got out twice to go to the bathroom.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Similar story from my family, but my aunt took a bit longer- she was drunk halfway through the first vat when she took a pit stop, then dove into the wrong vat.

At the Jack Daniels distillery.

 

[Random Axe]

Similar story from my family, but my aunt took a bit longer- she was drunk halfway through the first vat when she took a pit stop, then dove into the wrong vat.

At the Jack Daniels distillery.

Well, there you go then. Jack Daniels is a healing potion.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Vampire.

 

[Al'Kelhar]

RPG conundrums

Should magic missile have an effect on a miss?

 

[ValhallaGH]

Should magic missile have an effect on a miss?

Should magic missile be able to miss?

 

[ValhallaGH]

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