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How to avoid killing player characters due to a single (un)lucky roll?
Especially at low levels, Pathfinder characters can usually be killed easily by a single enemy attack, provided the dice fall in said enemy's favor. An example:
The PC has a Constitution score of 10 (...
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How to alleviate the tedium of PC death at higher levels?
In our high-level Pathfinder game, player characters die relatively often, whether to save-or-die or just to high damage.
When a PC dies, then players either defeat the enemy or escape, and unless the ...
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Can spells that stabilise you when you'd die overrule death from exceeding negative constitution?
Characters die from damage when their health is reduced below their negative Constitution score. However, some spells stabilize you when you'd die. Can these spells stabilize you even from damage that ...
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How is a soul different from the living creature that it came from?
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If someone who can cast a spell like Plane Shift or Gate dies, what prevents their soul from simply casting the spell and returning to the Material Plane?
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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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What spells are there that prevent instant death from damage?
I'm currently playing a Witch in a Kingmaker game. After having to be resurrected twice, there's a lot of things that are making me question my character as a whole.
While I don't get hit often, ...
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Has it ever been officially stated how long it takes for a soul to transform into an outsider after death?
Okay, correct me if I’m wrong:
In the Pathfinder Universe, souls travel along the River of Souls after death, then hang around Pharasmas Boneyard for a while, get judged and then get send to ...
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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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Can the Harm spell kill with massive damage?
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We fought a daemon that used it's Harm spell-like ability on a player, dealing 100 points of damage on the player's failed save. The DM said to make a massive damage1 roll. The character ...
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Monster Energy drain, character death and resurrection
After finish a fight with a small group of vampire spawn, one of the player characters ended up suffering enough energy drain to kill him.
when the fight was finished the rest of the party began ...
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What happens to a mythic creatures mythic pool who is resurrected on a different day?
Mythic power is a much newer aspect of the game than being killed and resurrected. Those spells were never updated with respect to the new character feature.
So the question is, at what level is a ...
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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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How inconvenient is flesh to stone to prevent someone from being resurrected?
I had a very mean thought today. When someone is subjected to a flesh to stone spell , they are not dead. Since they are not dead, any attempt to resurrect them will automatically fail, as well any ...
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What happens to a familiar or animal companion if its master dies?
According to RAW, familiars and animal companions are magically bound to their master's soul. A dead familiar or animal companion can either be replaced or brought back to life, at a cost, but what do ...
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