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Playing a game, that is a giant sandbox with some PvP in it.
Ask some other players (OOC) if by meeting up with them we can team up, and I wont get killed on sight (you know, PvP).
Long story short, I get killed in a "rocks fall you die" way, by being totally outmatched. They get me to negative hp. cCoup de grace me, and then... flay me.
At any rate, I am role playing a "god among mortals". Would it be possible to spend 2 hero points to miraculously "reform" again. Technically cheat death doesnt give a time frame in which I have to use it, and its hardly fair to keep my hero points, if I cant use them later on. Because if you cant use them to cheat any death (long as u have them) then EVERY BBEG would just kill you, then burn you, then feed you to something, because heroes have that pesky ability to survive things.
Well, there are just a tone of red flags here...like a GM allowing PvP at all. Personally, I'd just do this.
Warning, link NSFW for swearing.
Well, its a game that is played online, with a tonn of people and PvP is allowed. The main question is if I can use cheat death after the enemy left, or if being hit once after dying just wastes 2 hero points, all because my opponent is a sadist.
Well the Cheat Death ability of hero points does this:
Cheat Death: A character can spend 2 hero points to cheat death. How this plays out is up to the GM, but generally the character is left alive, with negative hit points but stable. For example, a character is about to be slain by a critical hit from an arrow. If the character spends 2 hero points, the GM decides that the arrow pierced the character's holy symbol, reducing the damage enough to prevent him from being killed, and that he made his stabilization roll at the end of his turn. Cheating death is the only way for a character to spend more than 1 hero point in a turn. The character can spend hero points in this way to prevent the death of a familiar, animal companion, eidolon, or special mount, but not another character or NPC.
So, if you had used it at the time (and it's difficult to retcon things) you would have instead of dying been at negative hp and stable. Of course, provided your opponent had ample time (wasn't trying to fight someone else at the same time) he would have (and did) make sure you were dead by attacking you again afterwards. You're character is dead. Utterly and truly slain. You must be resurrected by some sort of magic to continue playing.
Welcome to the suck that is PVP, why anyone would allow this or play this type of game is beyond me.