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LOL, that's amazing.
Also, d4 is the damage of a dagger, which is a weapon made specifically to kill people and has a ~25% chance of killing a commoner (who typically has 4 hp) in one hit with just the rolled damage.
Exactly. I mean it's a cute story but I 100% still thinks that is 1d4 damage lol
I'm not looking to get married, but keep in mind it's a Barbarian bite. So the biter's half-feral and accustomed to gnawing on raw meat.
I'd give it a flat 1HP, if that. Unless you get me in the neck, I doubt any human bite would take 25% of this commoners HP.
Thing is, if you're trying to bite someone to death the neck is the most natural target (vs. bending down to take a chunk out of their stomach or trying to open the veins in the arms). The difficulty is more in actually getting in range, which realistically would get down to grappling in a fight.
Do commoners not go down to -9? I don't think any session I've ever played bothered with caring about the peasantry, lmao
NPCs and monsters automatically die at zero HP in DmD 5th and the editions prior that I was the DM for. There was a reminder that the DM could choose to let them go under, but the default was death on zero for non-player characters and monsters.
Just imagine tracking death saving throws for every NPC and weak monsters....
Not since 3.5.