I have been looking for an answer on the following question in the core book but cant find it. Question is if a character is at a negitive hit points and a potion of cure wounds is used (which does stabilize the character) but does it put the hit points at 0, put the hit points at 0 then allow the roll for effect amount, or do you roll for the effect amount and apply the result to the negitive value ? This may be a no-brainer that Im missing the answer right in front of me but as I havent played any RPG's since the AD&D days (back in the 80's) and just started up again Im alittle out of practice. Thanks for any replies.
A potion restores hit points, from their current level.
Example :
Potion of Cure light wounds does 1d8+1 HP healing, if you roll a 6, you get 7 HP.
Given to someone at -10, they are raised to -3 and are stabilized (no more bleeding out since they got healing), but they are still unconscious.
Given to someone at -7, they are raised to 0, and are conscious, but staggered and can only take move actions. They are stabilized and no longer bleeding.
Given to someone at -5, they are raised to 2, and are conscious, and can act normally, taking full actions, attacking, defending, running, whatever. No more bleeding.