• chuckleslord@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I tried to show this off to my fiancee when we were playing. I’m not certain if I missed the roll or there was a bug or something, but instead of bringing her back up, it gave her two failed death saves and permakilled her instead. Hahaha, whoops

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      1 year ago

      You may have inadvertently thrown the potion as an improvised weapon instead of for them to drink it. Being hit by a thrown object will give a failed death save, or 2 on a crit.

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      1 year ago

      Did you throw the bottle into them? It has a splash radius, and also deals damage if you hit someone iirc.

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        1 year ago

        Also if you throw it at them and “miss” somehow it heals you

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          1 year ago

          Well, you get splashed with healing potion and also not hit in the face with a glass bottle.

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        So THAT’S what happened!? I had no choice but to haphazardly throw a potion and pray to whatever gods think I’m amusing after Shart’s expert pathfinding sent her gallivanting directly into the lava, and it counted in the journal as bludgeoning damage.

        I was fighting the damn Grym at the time.

        I was half-convinced it was a bug, half-convinced I’d hallucinated the whole thing. I’ve been trained as a gamer to feel like standing in the splash radius should heal less than a direct hit, so that would be something to get used to.

        Although I guess it’s one of those things that does really make sense. I was thinking about that just this morning, that throwing a glass bottle full of instant healing magic should logically result in tiny shards of glass becoming stuck in your skin.

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        Yeah, throw bottle at a person to heal them. Makes total sense to chuck it at their face. With the new system (showing the splash zone of the potion) I haven’t made the same mistake since.