How does the Family Subdomain power work in PFS?

[Jeff Merola]

Secane wrote:

Still... that's 2 dead party members.

The Ally will keep going for a couple of rounds more... but then he's dead too?

And I suppose breath of life would have to be used on the cleric, but since he is dead, he will need another player to cast it on him.

Except that the cleric loses the condition they grabbed at the end of the duration, so they wouldn't be dead anymore.

[Acedio]

If the cleric is revived they'll get the permanent negative levels though.

[Arksangiel]

Ruske Bell wrote:

If we really want to get technical about RAW the dead condition says nothing about having your character get right back up and continue going about his/her day.

But it's usually compounded on top of one of the following, which does:

1) Unconscious/dying due to hp loss.
2) Turned into a pile of dust (inanimate object) via a finger of death or disintegrate-like effect.
3) Held / Slept etc for the coup de grace setup.

As written dead does not preclude you from taking actions, it's the other effects that normally cause it.