Talk:Hovering at Death's Door

Noah: It is my understanding that characters failing the "heart-explosion roll" do not receive a modified CON check, they are automatically unconscious and bleeding out.

Also, there are a number of activities that can be defined as non-strenuous, most of which are intuitive (all, of course, subject to DM discretion). One that may *not* be intuitive, however, is that character classes with the hide-in-shadows ability may do so at no penalty while at a negative. This is fortunate, because that is just exactly what characters knocked down to a negative typically feel like doing.

Danble: Permenent scaring at -7? Well golly, I was there last night. Do I lose charisma or something?

Noah: Nah. Actually, chicks dig the scars. It's just something to recollect when sitting around the fire at the inn, comparing war stories with grizzled veterans.

Danble: [points to a scar on chest] Mary Ellen Moffat. She broke my heart.

tcm: characters who perform strenuous actions while at negative don't just take damage, they take permanent damage, right?