Can someone run me though the new SF death and dying procedure. how the fort save or resolve point thing works? I want to make sure I'm doing it correctly.
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The stabilize cantrip is potentially VERY valuable. It not only saves a resolve point it (possibly more importantly) saves a round as the stabilized unconscious person can spend a resolve to become conscious.
This is potentially sufficiently important that it MAY be worth delaying until after the "healer" goes. That way if you go down they can stabilize you BEFORE your next turn
Seems like you are most likely going to spend the 1/4 resolve nine times out of 10 unless you are just too low on it.
One thing to add to Malks list -
The stabilize cantrip is potentially VERY valuable. It not only saves a resolve point it (possibly more importantly) saves a round as the stabilized unconscious person can spend a resolve to become conscious.
This is potentially sufficiently important that it MAY be worth delaying until after the "healer" goes. That way if you go down they can stabilize you BEFORE your next turn
I wouldn't think the unconscious PC could delay.
The rules for Delay & Unconscious don't seem to address this though, as Delay doesn't take an action. :/It just seems odd a PC could choose to die a bit later.
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I'm going to delay my dying action until next summer when its warmer.
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One thing to add to Malks list -
The stabilize cantrip is potentially VERY valuable.
I wouldn't think the unconscious PC could delay.
You do NOT delay when unconscious. Sometime earlier in the battle, you delayed until after the healer.
So, the baddie puts you down. BEFORE your turn comes up, the healer stabilizes you. THEN, on your turn, you spend a resolve to become conscious.
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If you hit 0 HP (regardless of how much stamina you have, although it will be rare to lose HP without first losing all your stamina) you are dying. If the hit that took you to 0 HP was equal to or greater than your Max HP you go straight to dead (oof!).
After checking the rules on massive damage, it seems it's actually the remaining damage of the attack that brought you to zero that has to be equal to or greater, not all of the attack damage. They give an example in the massive damage rules.
But to use a more extreme example, let's use a 20th level soldier with 14 con, 140 HP, and 180 SP. The Soldier can lay on top of a Heavy Nuclear Missile, detonate it for full damage (450 avg.) and spend resolve points to stabilize and get back up, since the remaining damage (130) isn't high enough to trigger massive damage (lol).
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The Soldier can lay on top of a Heavy Nuclear Missile, detonate it for full damage (450 avg.) and spend resolve points to stabilize and get back up, since the remaining damage (130) isn't high enough to trigger massive damage (lol).
Thats just silly. Now, if he took a running jump and dived out of the way just as it want off then THAT would be perfectly fine :-).
Or was in a refrigerator at ground zero :-)
Lets fact it, hit points aren't realistic. Never have been, never will. But they do a fair job of reproducing movie physics, at least
I don't know, if you assume a level 20 Starfinder campaign is less Star Trek, and more Guardians of the Galaxy. . . ;)
Right.
Starting from Pathfinder, high level and high CR creatures are frequently described as being godlike, with some of the lower end of CR 20s noted for destroying entire worlds.
It's rather evident that this hasn't changed in Starfinder. Even the CR 19 Endbringer Devil is capable of possessing tier 14 starship statistics, and would roughly take, on average, 9 direct hits with a Heavy Nuclear Missile Launcher to bring it down, assuming you can regularly pass its 31 TL. I wouldn't be surprised if, say, a CR 25 Solar Dragon would possess tier 20 starship statistics, and probably would be appropriate for it.