Unconscious and healing

[Robert Gooding]

HealingYou can stabilize a dying creature and keep it from losing any more Resolve Points with any sort of healing, such as the stabilize spell. Healing that raises a dying creature’s Hit Points to 1 or higher makes it conscious and fully functional again, just as if it had never been reduced to 0 HP.

StableIf you were dying but spent Resolve Points to stabilize (see Using Resolve Points beginning on page 250 in Injury and Death), or if you received healing from an ally, you are stable. You are no longer dying, but you are still unconscious.

So in one sections it says if you receive healing you are conscious and in another it says if you receive healing you are unconscious and stable...which is it?

[Super Zero]

If you have HP, you're conscious (unless you're unconscious for some other reason).
Healing from an ally can stabilize without actually restoring HP--as noted, the stabilize spell does exactly that.

[breithauptclan]

OK. How about Mystic Cure, which causes hit point gain.

In one set of rules it says that if you are dying and get tagged with Mystic Cure you are no longer dying or unconscious.

In the other set of rules it says that if you were dying but currently stable and get tagged with Mystic Cure, you are still no longer dying, but you stay unconscious.

Because for some reason receiving HP gain while dying is better than receiving HP gain after you have already stabilized yourself by spending resolve points.

[breithauptclan]

Robert Gooding wrote:

Stable: If you were dying but spent Resolve Points to stabilize (see Using Resolve Points beginning on page 250 in Injury and Death), or if you received healing from an ally, you are stable. You are no longer dying, but you are still unconscious.

I think it is intended to say

Stable: If you were dying but spend Resolve Points to stabilize, or if you received stabilization from an ally, you are stable. You are no longer dying, but you are still unconscious.

Stabilization could come from the stabilize spell or from medicine checks. But they don't heal hit points.

Healing HP to bring a character above 0 should do the first effect and bring the character back into fully functional.

[Ravingdork]

This came up in our game recently. None of us knew if I was stable and conscious, or stable and unconscious.

[Vexies]

Pg 250 cited in the above quote answers your question.

Stabilizing: There are several ways to stabilize a dying creature, including first aid, healing, and spending Resolve Points. Once stable, you are no longer dying and no longer lose Resolve Points, but you still have 0 Hit Points and are unconscious.

On the same page

Healing: You can stabilize a dying creature and keep it from losing any more Resolve Points with any sort of healing, such as the stabilize spell. Healing that raises a dying creature’s Hit Points to 1 or higher makes it conscious and fully functional again, just as if it had never been reduced to 0 HP.

In addition the FAQ states that the rules for Death & Dying on these pages are the correct rules in regards to the use of resolve points so it would seem to imply they are fairly reliable in this case as well.

In essence if you used a resolve point or the stabilization spell or (just for completeness sake) you arrived at zero HPs but are stable by some means your still unconscious. If however you healed in some fashion that brings your total HPs above zero your stable and conscious.