Death and Unconsciousness

Question 1

How does being reduced to 0 HP affect a creature’s initiative?

Answer 1

It moves immediately to just before the creature, or effect, that reduced the creature to 0 HP.

Question 2

What happens if a creature is reduced to 0 HP by an enemy’s critical hit?

Answer 2

They gain Dying 2+Wounded, instead of Dying 1+Wounded.

Question 3

What happens if a creature is reduced to 0 HP as the result of rolling a critical failure?

Answer 3

They gain Dying 2+Wounded, instead of Dying 1+Wounded.

Question 4

What happens if a creature is reduced to 0 HP by nonlethal damage?

Answer 4

They are Unconscious and on 0 hit points, but do not gain Dying.

Question 5

If a creature with 100 HP takes 90 non-lethal damage and then takes 10 lethal damage, what happens?

Answer 5

They are unconscious and gain Dying as normal. Per rules as written, non-lethal and lethal damage are identical if they do not reduce the target to 0 HP.

Question 6

What happens if a creature on 0 HP, Unconscious, and Dying takes lethal damage from a regular hit?

Answer 6

Their Dying value increases by 1.

Question 7

What happens if a creature on 0 HP, Unconscious, and Dying takes lethal damage from a critical hit?

Answer 7

Their Dying value increases by 2.

Question 8

What happens if a creature who is unconscious and on 0 HP, but not Dying, takes non-lethal damage?

Answer 8

Nothing. Non-lethal damage cannot make them Dying and they cannot be more knocked out than they already are.

Question 9

What happens if a creature on 0 HP, Unconscious, and Dying takes non-lethal damage?

Answer 9

Per rules as written, their Dying condition increases as if it was lethal damage.

Question 10

What is the DC and modifier for a recovery check?

Answer 10

The DC is 10 plus current Dying value, and there is no modifier; recovery checks are flat checks.

Question 11

What are the possible results of a recovery check?

Answer 11

In order of successfulness: Dying -2 / -1 / +1 / +2.

Question 12

What happens if a successful recovery check reduces a Dying creature to Dying 0?

Answer 12

They gain the Wounded condition and are no longer Dying, but still have 0 HP and are still Unconscious.

Question 13

How can a creature which is Unconscious and on 0 HP, but not Dying, be woken up?

Answer 13

By the natural passage of time, or by any healing which causes them to gain at least 1 HP.

Question 14

How can a creature which is Unconscious and on 1 HP or more be woken up?

Answer 14

By any damage that does not reduce them to 0 HP; by healing; by being shaken awake by an Interact action; or by making a Perception check against nearby noise.

Question 15

What happens if a creature which is Unconscious and on 1 HP takes damage that lowers it to 0 HP?

Answer 15

It takes the damage as normal. It remains unconscious and, if the damage was lethal, is now Dying.

Question 16

How may a character on 0 HP, Unconscious, and Dying recover using Hero Points?

Answer 16

By spending all Hero Points they are no longer dying but remain unconscious and on 0 HP. (In the original book they gain 1 HP but this was changed by streamed errata.)

Question 17

What happens if a creature is reduced to 0 HP while suffering Persistent Damage?

Answer 17

Per rules as written, the Persistent Damage does not stop. It will continue to cause damage, increasing the Dying value, every round.

Question 18

What happens if a creature is reduced to 0 HP while suffering multiple forms of Persistent Damage?

Answer 18

They take all of the damage, but their Dying value increases by only 1 because, per p621, triggers related to taking damage are only activated once by any number of persistent damage conditions.