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Tagged with character-death healing
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Medicine and Stabilizing
While I won't question my DM because it is his game and he is running it his own way, I was curious on one of the rulings that was made and wanted to see what the official rules on it were.
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How does the Reactive Healing feat work?
I'm confused as to how the Reactive Healing feat works. Specifically:
The brief description talks about being knocked unconscious. If a blow would kill you outright, can you still use Reactive ...
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Can a Medicine check to stabilize a PC be performed multiple times?
During our last D&D 5e session, one of the player characters went down. As the healer was a bit too far away, another PC tried to stabilize the other PC with a Medicine check.
Unfortunately, they ...
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What happens if you're healed while drowning?
So when you're drowning, and you fail your con check, you drop to 0 hp and are unconscious. In the next round, you drop to -1 and are dying, and in the following round, you are dead. It looks like ...
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Can Breath of Life save someone who died from a Coup de Grace?
Suppose a character dies from an effect that causes instantaneous death (but is not a death effect), such as a coup de grace, a critical hit from a vorpal weapon, or taking massive damage. Can that ...
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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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How can I prevent my party from resurrecting an NPC?
I'm DMing for a level 12 party of 4 (bard, cleric, druid, and revised ranger). They each have about 70,000 GP, and they live near a capital city with plenty of temples.
The villain is the equivalent ...
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Breath of life and a quickened cure spell
So breath of life has the ability to bring back someone who died within the last round, but only if the healing provided cab bring it above that death line.
Breath of life
This spell cures 5d8 ...
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