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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Harzel" data-source="post: 7568454" data-attributes="member: 6857506">#1: The vampire spawn description just says "HP max is reduced by an amount equal to the necrotic damage taken".  There is no explicit mention or implication about this being affected by what is soaking the damage, so it seems to me whether you have tHP is irrelevant.#2: So, first, whether your max HP being reduced to 0 results in instant death is not a matter of a ruling.  The last sentence of the stat block says exactly that that is what happens.  The more general case - having your max HP reduced and then taking 2x that much damage - seems a little more questionable, but I'd say the intent probably is that that also results in instant death.  I'm not sure whether I'd run it that way or not.</blockquote>