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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mannahnin" data-source="post: 8241940" data-attributes="member: 7026594">Death Saves taken while at 0 is a concept which was introduced in 4th ed*.  I think the idea was to create additional suspense, rather than the steady, predictable effect of bleeding at 1HP per round until death finally occurs at -10, like in 3E.Probably because of the scaling ever-increasing damage numbers as you increased in levels, 4E also had death occur at negative HP equal to the character's Bloodied value (half max HP), rather than at -10.  Obviously bleeding 1HP/rd would be a long slow process if instead of death occurring at -10 it was occuring at, say, -40 for a mid level character, or -100 for a high level character.(*Edit: With a somewhat different version having first appeared in the RC, as Snarf notes)</blockquote>