/5eg/ - Fifth Edition General

He's a Wood Elf, sure. Kokiri are gnomes.

>How do you/does your DM handle Wishes?

He actually coordinated with a player, between sessions, to use his wish to both simultaneously benefit the player and the storyline.

Hey guys, newbie question here.

I understand the death save mechanic, but let's say a character has 5 hp left and takes 10 dmg, and a party member wants to heal him. He's unconscious at 0 hp, right, but for the purpose of healing is he at -5 or still at 0, and then regains consciousness after any amount of healing?

>cantrips
Chill Touch, Toll the Dead obviously.
Thaumaturgy

Not gonna explain what's explicitly in the rules for you.

He's at zero.

And people wonder why we get stereotyped as a bunch of socially retarded fuckwads. Way to welcome newcomers to the hobby, champ.

There's no such thing as going below 0. So healing 1 hp is all that's needed to get him back on his feet again.

I'm doing LMoP for my normie friends. Only one of them have played TTRPG before. The group has two girls, and one of the girls almost died today. She managed to anger a grick and it double-critted her, and then she crit-failed her first death saving throw. Pretty dramatic.

The player got fucking pissed though. Actual petulant-child level angry, and threw a dice at another player. I was pretty flabbergasted. Do people really get so attached to their characters? Even normies? On the rare occasions when I get to play, I love to problem solve and do my best, but death is a fun part of D&D and makes the adventure both memorable, exciting and dangerous. I couldn't believe what I experienced.

Have you guys tried that before? Players going actually crazy over character deaths (or near-character deaths, as in this case)?

I don't have the rulebook, but the situation came up today when we tried out the game

Thanks a lot!

>all of those xanathar buffs
Time to roll a divination wizard.