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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 8244423" data-attributes="member: 82106">That is of course, by far, not the only way to describe being knocked down. Nor IME even a common way. I don't see a lot of players/GMs in my many decades of play richly describing the vast majority of the action in fights at all. It is generally just he was hit, he wasn't hit, he hit you, he missed, roll some damage, maybe exclaim "Ouch! That hurt!" and then maybe when you go down there's a mention of how the orc 'knocked your lights out with that blow' or something. Is the PC bleeding and unconscious? We don't even really know for sure exactly what the situation is. The rest of the team sees them stop fighting and concludes their team member is in serious trouble. Maybe someone casts a spell at them, or whatever. Exactly what that LOOKED LIKE is not dictated by the rules to any degree. You could still be standing, stunned. The heal could arrive before you even hit the floor, or at the same time as the blow (surely turns are a mechanical contrivance, right)? This is one of those sort of things where the argument is OK in a hypothetical kind of way, but it really has no practical application in actual play.</blockquote>