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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 8115120" data-attributes="member: 7006">For my Curse of Strahd games I wanted a more deadly game with longer / more difficult healing and the like.  My instituted rules ended up including:There were no healing spells in the game at all for any class.  Healing was only available through Lay on Hands, Goodberry, the Healer feat, and when I made healing potions available.A modified Exhaustion chart was ported over in replacement of 'Three Death Saves'.  So when you hit 0 you would make a 10 or higher death save on your next turn, with a failure granting you 1 level of Exhaustion.  Every failed save would grant you another level, melee critical hits on the downed person would cause 2 levels of Exhaustion.  As per the chart, at level 5 you would essentially be bedridden, and at level 6 you would die.  Exhaustion recovery occurred over long rests exponentially. One level would take 1 long rest. Two would take two long rests. Three would take 4 long rests, Four would take 7 long rests, Five would take 14 long rests. To help PCs a bit, Lesser Restoration cast on an Exhausted PC prior to their first long rest would remove a level "for free", thus adjusting how many total days you would need to recover all the others.</blockquote>