
Ironwedge |
Someone could please help me here. Death, Dying Condition, Healing and Hit Points and how they all interact is giving me problems.
1. The way I read it is that if my character is at 0 HP, I have dying condition 1. Correct?
2. My turn in initiative order changes as soon as that happens to just before the turn of the creature or thing that took me to 0 HP? Correct?
3. The cleric comes to my aid on his turn, and casts heal on me, bringing my HP up to 8. The way I understand it is I am still unconscious on the ground, even with positive HP? Correct?
4. My turn comes around. I make my Fort save, and I am now conscious, but I only have 2 actions and my reaction? or just the 2 actions with no reaction for that round? Please lend me some clarity. Thank you!

Fuzzy-Wuzzy |
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1. The way I read it is that if my character is at 0 HP, I have dying condition 1. Correct?
Usually.
If the attack that reduced you to 0 HP was lethal, you gain the dying 1 condition. If you already had the dying condition, instead increase your dying condition by 1. If the attack was a critical hit, you gain the dying 2 condition (or increase your dying condition by 2).
If the attack was nonlethal, you do not gain the dying condition or increase your dying condition, and you return to 1 Hit Point (though you remain unconscious).
2. My turn in initiative order changes as soon as that happens to just before the turn of the creature or thing that took me to 0 HP? Correct?
Correct.
3. The cleric comes to my aid on his turn, and casts heal on me, bringing my HP up to 8. The way I understand it is I am still unconscious on the ground, even with positive HP? Correct?
Correct.
4. My turn comes around. I make my Fort save, and I am now conscious, but I only have 2 actions and my reaction? or just the 2 actions with no reaction for that round?
The former (you don't lose your reaction). Also, you are still dying! But at the end of each of your turns when you are conscious with positive HP you reduce the dying condition by 1, until it reaches 0 and goes away.