DEATH AND DYING
DEATH AND DYING
[Note: these rules supersede the old death and dying rules.] When your character falls to 0 HP or below up to -3, you must roll a special saving throw vs. death. (This is not the same as the saving throw for poison and death.) The saving throw is set initially for all characters at 10 or higher on 1d20. Every time the save is successfully made, however, the target number of the save goes up one. (Unasi and Dozar both have scores of 11 currently.) This is the one save that cannot be modified, including by the aura given off by paladins. It is always a straight roll without modifiers.
Failure of this save indicates death. If you are at 0, Success indicates that you are merely unconscious. You will recover in 1 turn, returning to 1 HP. If you are -1 to -3, Success indicates that you are dying, but not yet dead. If healing magic, or some other healing ability, is applied to you with 3 rounds, you will live. No matter how healed you are by magic, you are, however, shaken and injured for the remainder of the session, and will take -2 on all rolls.
UNDEATH AND UNDYING
Magic-user may always make use of the animate dead spell as written, without penalties. Clerics may face restrictions, depending on their deity of choice.
Nephtlys
Nephtlys the Spider God of greed empowers his devotees to lure the dead from beyond in a web of desire and deciet. However, the undead so ensnared are filled with an envious hatred of the living, and an endless hunger for the objects of their desire when living. Note that the White Hounds are 3+3 hit dice, so Cletus can reanimate only 1 zombie hound at 4+3 hit dice. When the hound slays someone, it will sate its endless hunger for flesh from the hunt by spending 1d4 rounds feasting on the victim, regardless of other circumstances.
MANA YOOD-SUSHAI
The priests of the Slumbering God may draw the spirits of the recently deceased (24 hours or less) back to inhabit their slain forms. However, they are permitted to detain the travelers only for 1 day, before allowing them on their way to whatever planes of sleep the dead travel. For what is death but the ultimate, unknown and irreversible slumber? And who is a priest of the dreaming to detain a dreamer from traversing the path she is destined to follow deep into the slumbering realms for more than afternoon?
Eric Boyd Chris P.
[Note: these rules supersede the old death and dying rules.] When your character falls to 0 HP or below up to -3, you must roll a special saving throw vs. death. (This is not the same as the saving throw for poison and death.) The saving throw is set initially for all characters at 10 or higher on 1d20. Every time the save is successfully made, however, the target number of the save goes up one. (Unasi and Dozar both have scores of 11 currently.) This is the one save that cannot be modified, including by the aura given off by paladins. It is always a straight roll without modifiers.
Failure of this save indicates death. If you are at 0, Success indicates that you are merely unconscious. You will recover in 1 turn, returning to 1 HP. If you are -1 to -3, Success indicates that you are dying, but not yet dead. If healing magic, or some other healing ability, is applied to you with 3 rounds, you will live. No matter how healed you are by magic, you are, however, shaken and injured for the remainder of the session, and will take -2 on all rolls.
UNDEATH AND UNDYING
Magic-user may always make use of the animate dead spell as written, without penalties. Clerics may face restrictions, depending on their deity of choice.
Nephtlys
Nephtlys the Spider God of greed empowers his devotees to lure the dead from beyond in a web of desire and deciet. However, the undead so ensnared are filled with an envious hatred of the living, and an endless hunger for the objects of their desire when living. Note that the White Hounds are 3+3 hit dice, so Cletus can reanimate only 1 zombie hound at 4+3 hit dice. When the hound slays someone, it will sate its endless hunger for flesh from the hunt by spending 1d4 rounds feasting on the victim, regardless of other circumstances.
MANA YOOD-SUSHAI
The priests of the Slumbering God may draw the spirits of the recently deceased (24 hours or less) back to inhabit their slain forms. However, they are permitted to detain the travelers only for 1 day, before allowing them on their way to whatever planes of sleep the dead travel. For what is death but the ultimate, unknown and irreversible slumber? And who is a priest of the dreaming to detain a dreamer from traversing the path she is destined to follow deep into the slumbering realms for more than afternoon?
Eric Boyd Chris P.
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