PC invisible and dying, party wants to give serum of healing

[Santobon]

So, the party is in a fight, the player in question. Low on health cast invisibility on themselves.

One of the players threw a grenade, nat 1, and it instead hit the invisible player. Who is now at 0 hp.

I allowed the party to do a notice check to realize that their friend is down. (Heard the sound of a body collapsing where he stood.) They all passed.

One of them ran over and intends to give them a serum of healing.

Now it's a full action to give one. But because they are invisible, they have total concealment, 50% miss chance.

Would I give the 50% miss chance for the serum of healing being applied?

It was the end of the session so I paused the fight and explained I'd give me ruling next time.

[Garretmander]

They are not making an attack roll, I wouldn't apply a miss chance.

I also just wouldn't apply a miss chance regardless, because they already won at that point.

[Santobon]

Garretmander wrote:

They are not making an attack roll, I wouldn't apply a miss chance.

I also just wouldn't apply a miss chance regardless, because they already won at that point.

Yeah I was leaning towards that. Just be insult to injury.

[BigNorseWolf]

"I think the serum is going in...."

"Which end?"

"... Head. definitely the head. And no one can see if I'm wrong. ... "

[Tim Emrick]

Presumably the character would wait to administer the serum until they get their hands on the right body part (open the mouth to pour it in, find a gap in armor for a hypo, whatever), which feels more like searching the space than making an attack roll, so I wouldn't impose a miss chance. At most, they might need to make a Perception check to find the right body part without spending more actions. But they're already taking two rounds to heal their friend (one to move and draw the serum, one to administer) so even that much seems a bit punitive.

Now, if they had to find where the fallen, invisible PC keeps their serum before they could use it, that's more difficult, and would definitely take more time. But still, no miss chance, just time to search.

(My wife had something similar happen to her character once in a v.3.5 game. She was knocked unconscious and needed immediate healing before bleeding out. Being an overly clever rogue, she had deliberately mislabeled her potions, so her ally fed her the invisibility potion rather than the cure potion. Fortunately, she critically succeeded her next stabilization roll on her turn, which meant that she was still alive--barely--when they finally got the cure potion into her invisible body.)

["Dr." Cupi]

I'd probably require a move action to locate the unconscious body. After being located, no miss chance.