Con Drain and death from hit point damage.

[FallofCamelot]

Simple question. If you are Con Drained does your death threshold go down a corresponding amount?

i.e. Boris of Loftwick the fighter has a Con of 14. After a particularly nasty fight he suffers 6 points of Con Drain making him effectively Con 8. In a later fight he hits -8 hps. Is he dead as he has hit his new Con score or does he continue to bleed and die only if he hits -14 hps?

Any ideas?

[Midnight_Angel]

PRD wrote:

Ability drain actually reduces the relevant ability score

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So, if Boris suffers from 6 points of Con drain (as opposed to Con Damage), his current Con is 8, with all consequences this implies. Which includes death at -8 hp.

[FallofCamelot]

So if he was unfortunate enough to be reduced to 1 Con he gets killed at -1hp?

Yikes...

[Midnight_Angel]

FallofCamelot wrote:

So if he was unfortunate enough to be reduced to 1 Con he gets killed at -1hp?

Correct.

Worse, if he was reduced to 0 Con, he dies right now.

*scnr*

[FallofCamelot]

Well yeah I know that one :)