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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ARandomGod" data-source="post: 2190299" data-attributes="member: 17296">Well, as there's no precedent stating that they do *all* get used up for each hit, the default would be to say that they do not, and that each temp HP is only used up in an actual cancellation of one HP of damage. As the spell is written. There's nothing stating that more than one temp HP would be used up per HP of damage, so really that particular ruling does fall into non-RAW territory. Adding something that's not there.Do I want it? Why not. Fighters run around with more than d10+10 HP's of damage dealing capacity per hit, and noone complains about that. If a sorc wants to spend ALL his second level spells on false life, then there are that many fewer scorching rays for him to throw. Overall winner, the non-sorc. After all, properly played the sorc will be behind the meat shield shooting scorching rays. If you can 'trick' him into wasting his resources in this way, it actually makes the enemies stonger, relatively speaking.I've had it done regularly too... and not in a high powered game. False life is much less powerful than scorching ray. Or web... or a number of other options. Plus I'm not defining it. That's the way the Rules As Written define it. Stacking isn't 'forbidden' to this spell, if it were explicitly forbidden, there wouldn't be this type of confusion, they would have written it out. But, since it's "forbidden" by the way the rules are written, and the way the rules are written ALSO state that they overlap in a way that's almost stacking, then that's not cheesy so much as it's just the way it's meant to be played. There are effectual reasons for it so be overlaping instead of stacking. Two of them have been meantioned above, in fact... Power Word Kill and Cosmic Connection. It DOES make a difference that they overlap in this specific manner instead of stacking. And, as Patryn of Elvenshae's definition is equally as valid as mine... no more no less... then THAT way is also significantly different than actual stacking.</blockquote>

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