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<blockquote data-quote="Bardic Dave" data-source="post: 7828853" data-attributes="member: 6789591"><p>Right, I get that, but you're still kind of dancing around the point. They get hit with a spear thrust. It's a serious blow. They're prone, unconscious, at 0 hp, making death saves. Obviously describing them as decapitated, impaled, gutted or anything similar would be inappropriate: they're not dead yet and they might yet live.</p><p></p><p>But we don't know if they'll die or live. With that in mind, how do you craft a perfect narration of the spear blow that takes into account the possibility that they might die or that they might be in tip-top shape with only 8 hours of rest? You can't really. It's an impossible feat. Your only real options are to leave things vague, to retcon descriptions with abandon, or to just not really worry about it too much. These solutions may or may not been satisfying for different people, depending on their preferences.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bardic Dave, post: 7828853, member: 6789591"] Right, I get that, but you're still kind of dancing around the point. They get hit with a spear thrust. It's a serious blow. They're prone, unconscious, at 0 hp, making death saves. Obviously describing them as decapitated, impaled, gutted or anything similar would be inappropriate: they're not dead yet and they might yet live. But we don't know if they'll die or live. With that in mind, how do you craft a perfect narration of the spear blow that takes into account the possibility that they might die or that they might be in tip-top shape with only 8 hours of rest? You can't really. It's an impossible feat. Your only real options are to leave things vague, to retcon descriptions with abandon, or to just not really worry about it too much. These solutions may or may not been satisfying for different people, depending on their preferences. [/QUOTE]
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