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Can the Wildfire Druid ability Blazing Revival prevent Instant Death due to massive damage or disintegrate?
The 14th level Circle of Wildfire ability reads:
If the spirit is within 120 feet of you when you are reduced to 0 hit points and thereby fall unconscious, you can cause the spirit to drop to 0 hit ...
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Is the Path of the Zealot barbarian almost immortal at level 15?
I was looking at classes and subclasses, and saw the Path of the Zealot barbarian, and the question if it could become almost immortal came to mind. At level 14, the Path of the Zealot gains the ...
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Can an epic knight/death delver use Nine Lives after Loyal Beyond Death?
What if my character is a level 20 Knight (PHII) and it got the Loyal Beyond Death (Ex) class feature and also has the Nine Lives (Ex) because it is a level 10 Death Delver (HoH) as well and his HP ...
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How does the Oath of the Crown paladin's Divine Allegiance feature interact with features that cause instadeath if the target's reduced to 0 HP?
Oath of the Crown paladins have the 7th-level feature Divine Allegiance (SCAG, p. 133). If someone within 5 feet of the paladin takes damage, Divine Allegiance lets the paladin use their reaction to ...
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Does a Swarmkeeper lose their swarm if they die?
In Tasha's Cauldron of Everything, the Swarmkeeper Ranger's "Gathered Swarm" feature states the following (emphasis added):
A swarm of intangible nature spirits has bonded itself to you and ...
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Can Bardic Inspiration prevent the results of a creature rolling a 1 on a death save?
Say the creature rolled a 1 on the d20, and would have 2 failed death saves, but uses their pre-given bardic inspiration and rolls a total of 10+.
Would the creature be saved from the consequences of ...
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Does the Way of the Long Death monk's Mastery of Death feature protect against the Disintegrate spell?
Some damaging spells, like disintegrate, have some additional effects when they reduce you to 0 hit points (in this case, reducing the target to a pile of dust).
The Way of the Long Death monk's 11th-...
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How do I kill a 20th level raging Zealot Barbarian?
At 20th level, the Path of the Zealot barbarian (Xanathar's Guide to Everything, p. 11) can rage indefinitely by virtue of starting a new rage just prior to their initial rage ending. This is ...
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Does the Zealot barbarian's Rage beyond Death feature let you survive if you receive healing regardless of your death saves?
In Xanathar's Guide to Everything (p. 11), the Path of the Zealot gives a barbarian the "Rage Beyond Death" feature at level 14 (emphasis mine):
Beginning at 14th level, the divine power ...
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Can a Zealot Barbarian at 0 hp be disintegrated?
A Zealot Barbarian gets the feature Rage beyond Death at Level 14 which reads
Beginning at 14th level, the divine power that fuels your rage allows you to shrug off fatal blows. While you’re ...
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What happens to a Wizard's Transmuter Stone when she dies?
Unfortunately, last monday night our transmuter wizardess met her early (only 160!) demise at the hands (claws) of some elf-hungry trolls.
Her transmuter stone was not on her, because another ...
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Does a Paladin's Aura of Protection Affect Allies' Death Saving Throws?
In D&D 5e, the Paladin feature Aura of Protection allows allies within 10 feet of you to add your charisma modifier as a bonus to their saving throws, as long as you are conscious.
Certainly this ...
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What happens to point pools when a creature is brought back to life?
The main spells that deal with bringing the dead back to life are clear about their effects on spells that they have prepared or uncast.
Raise Dead
A character who died with spells prepared has a ...
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