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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fanaelialae" data-source="post: 6276907" data-attributes="member: 53980">I'd roll a chance for divine intervention. Based on the character's devoutness, and assuming that he isn't constantly praying for his deity to intervene on his behalf, I'd give him decent odds that his deity intercedes. What form that intercession took would be up to me and how generous I was feeling, but it would be something that could be chalked up to luck. Maybe she gets a bonus to stabilize, maybe she does it automatically, or maybe a cleric of Pelor happens to be in the right place at the right time.Back in the day, we had rules for this sort of thing. Every character had a 1% chance per level of divine intercession assuming they were at least somewhat devout (I think clerics and paladins had double that). Usually when the deity interceeded, that character would have a vision (sometimes requiring something of that character in return). Though it failed more often than not, it did make for some enjoyable scenes and last second TPK avoidance. For reasons I don't recall we moved on to a more ad hoc method, but that very rarely comes into play compared to the old rule.</blockquote>