Hit point advice...

[Nunkeymutts]

Hi all - just a just a quick one... (apologies in advance if the answer is obvious).

When PCs take damage (from combat for example), does this damage bite into negative hp, or is there a ceiling at 0, and the process of dying starts from this point? For example: if the player character has 4hp and is dealt 8 damage, are they now on -4? This seems to make more sense to me, but I can't find any clarity in PF rules, which all seem to focus on HP reaching 0 before dying starts and they face possibly hitting negative integers.

Thanks

[Kazumetsa Raijin]

It bites into negative Hp. Once they go below 0 they begin dying, losing 1 point of Hp every time they fail their save to stabilize. If they stabilize, they stop bleeding out, stop at whatever Hp they are at, and are just unconscious.

[Nunkeymutts]

Kazumetsa Raijin wrote:

It bites into negative Hp. Once they go below 0 they begin dying, losing 1 point of Hp every time they fail their save to stabilize. If they stabilize, they stop bleeding out, stop at whatever Hp they are at, and are just unconscious.

Thanks for clarifying this for me. This makes sense.