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<blockquote data-quote="Madfox" data-source="post: 188988" data-attributes="member: 1714">I remember a scene in which a barbarian drowned on rough seas. He nearly took the whole team with him, so we had little pitty with him. We were sitting in a rowing boat examining some floating debris, when we saw several sharks. The barbarian decided to do a preemptive strike, even though my wizard (with high knowledge nature skill) told him that as long as we did not attack the sharks they would have little reason to attack us. The worst thing is that he decided to stand up. So when the shark bumbed into the boat the barbarian -due to a stroke of bad luck- took two other fighters with him. Combining the rough sea (swim DC 15) and the sharks we were not able to rescue the barbarian. We are still not sure if he drowned or was eaten <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />I think the rules for drowning are lenient, because once you reach the limit the character is dead in two rounds with absolutely no chance to survive. Personally, I would have favoured the subdual bit of damage.On a side note, in very cold water people have 'survived' more then 30 minutes underwater. Though they did require some medical help to be revived, which is not unthinkable with a spell like cure light wounds available.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Madfox, post: 188988, member: 1714"] I remember a scene in which a barbarian drowned on rough seas. He nearly took the whole team with him, so we had little pitty with him. We were sitting in a rowing boat examining some floating debris, when we saw several sharks. The barbarian decided to do a preemptive strike, even though my wizard (with high knowledge nature skill) told him that as long as we did not attack the sharks they would have little reason to attack us. The worst thing is that he decided to stand up. So when the shark bumbed into the boat the barbarian -due to a stroke of bad luck- took two other fighters with him. Combining the rough sea (swim DC 15) and the sharks we were not able to rescue the barbarian. We are still not sure if he drowned or was eaten ;) I think the rules for drowning are lenient, because once you reach the limit the character is dead in two rounds with absolutely no chance to survive. Personally, I would have favoured the subdual bit of damage. On a side note, in very cold water people have 'survived' more then 30 minutes underwater. Though they did require some medical help to be revived, which is not unthinkable with a spell like cure light wounds available. [/QUOTE]

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