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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dcollins" data-source="post: 186697" data-attributes="member: 876">I'm wondering this: Has anyone actually been witness to a character drowning during an encounter?It seems like, as written, the base drowning rule is too lenient for such a thing to actually happen during an encounter with some opponent. Per DMG p. 85, the base time before drowning occurs is a minimum of 6 rounds (for Con 3), or an average of 20 rounds (for a Con 10). I don't know of many encounters that last as long as either of those figures.I'm actually considering altering the rule to provide only half that duration if the character is taking any actions in the meantime (i.e., full book duration if taking no actions, or possibly a single MEA per round).</blockquote>