Dark-Half and unconsciousness

[Framane]

Does you stay in your Dark-Half when you go unconscious?

Dark-Half:

By allowing the dark forces to overcome you, You can enter a state of instinctual cruelty as a swift action.

While you're manifesting your dark half, you increase the DCs of your psychic spells by 1, gain a +2 morale bonus on Will saves, and become immune to fear effects. Whenever you cast a spell that deals damage while manifesting your dark half, you can cause one creature that took damage from the spell to also take 1 point of bleed damage. The amount of bleed damage increases to 2 points at 5th level and to 1d6 points at 13th level. While manifesting your dark half, You can't use any Charisma-, Dexterity-, or Intelligence-based skills (except Acrobatics, Fly, Intimidate, and Ride) or any ability that requires patience or concentration other than casting spells using psychic magic, using phrenic amplifications, or attempting to return to normal. You can attempt to return to your normal self as a free action, but must succeed at a concentration check with a DC equal to 10 + your caster level. If you fail, you continue to manifest your dark half and can't attempt to change back for 1 round.

You can manifest your dark half for a number of rounds per day equal to 3 + 1/2 your psychic level + your Charisma modifier; when these rounds are expended, you return to your normal self without requiring a concentration check.

[nemophles]

Probably yes.

Some abilities end when you go unconscious, like a rage, or bardic performance, or a concentration spell. These are things the character needs actively maintain, and since an unconscious character can't maintain them, they end.
Other effects don't automatically end. Spells with durations that do not depend on concentration go until they run out, or until they are dismissed as a standard action.

Dark-Half continues to happen unless the character makes a concentration check. Since an unconscious character cannot make this concentration check, there is no reason to say that it would end prematurely.

[cavernshark]

Framane wrote:

Does you stay in your Dark-Half when you go unconscious?

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I'd say probably expect table variation. While I can appreciate nemophles argument, I could just as easily argue that your Dark Half is a mental effect which also needs to be conscious to exert control. If you're unable to make the concentration check to assume control because you're unconscious, it's also probably unable to maintain control for the same reason ending the effect.

You could also reasonably argue the effect is suspended until you're revived, at which point it still has control if it had control when you went unconscious.