Half-Orc Oracle Feat and revelation question


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I'm working on creating a Half-Orc Oracle (she also has ranks in Barbarian because i'm going to make her a rage profit when I can. However, that's not relevant to my question and more to give you an idea of what i'm trying to do).

My Mystery is Battle and the first revelation I took was resiliency(APG):
*You are not disabled and you do not gain the staggered condition if you are reduced to exactly 0 hit points.*

I also took the half Orc feat Ferocious Resolve(ARG):
*You gain the ferocity universal monster ability, allowing you to continue fighting at negative hit points.*

The ferocity universal monster rule reads like this:
*A creature with ferocity remains conscious and can continue fighting even if its hit point total is below 0. The creature is still staggered and loses 1 hit point each round. The creature still dies when its hit point total reaches a negative amount equal to its Constitution score.*

My question is this: even though the wording for resiliency says you aren't staggered at exactly 0 HP, would the Ferocious resolve that allows me to attack past 0 HP (which you normally can't do) extend that protection from stagger past 0 HP as well?

This may seem like a silly question because the wording says "exactly 0 hit points" but without ferocity you wouldn't be staggered past 0 HP any way, you would be unconscious. So there would be no reason to add that to the rules. If I can't get an answer here I'll ask my GM but I was wondering what others thoughts were on this were.


You need to ask your GM anyway, regardless of the answers you get here, for the exact same reason that you asked the question in the first place: because it isn't clear. RAI yes, RAW no.

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