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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7730417" data-attributes="member: 29398">With 2 two of the PCs in this 0e game having 1 h.p. each, a single anything swing that does any damage at all stands a 100% chance of dropping the PC to "dead".0e as written doesn't have a "dying" state.  You go from fine at 1 h.p. to dead at 0 h.p.  It wasn't till 1e that we got the (very widely used IME) death at -10 option.But that are still fixable.  Putting level loss into 5e , for example, would be a trivial add; as would putting in save-or-die effects and taking out "save ends" as a duration in favour of fixed lengths of time.  Doing away with 5e's various death saves and going to a 0e dead-at-0 or even 1e's dead-at-minus-10 is also trivially easy to do.  Then random-roll h.p. at every level and you're more or less good to go.Lanefan</blockquote>