IsYitzack returns, with the odds on how often the party could have saved against the beholder’s eye ray attacks! So, necrotic is bad news, but really, whether it’s instant or not depends on the spell description. The trap surrounding the champion of the Raven Queen (the goddess of death) also killed those who fell below 0 HP. The spell description for Finger of Death explains that victims who drop below 0 HP instantly die and become a zombie under the control of the caster on their next turn. There’s the Death Ray that Beholders have (55 on a fail, half on success). However, the attacks you mentioned above all have some sort of death effect tied to them. Beholders also have a non-instant-kill necrotic eye ray called the Enervation Ray (36 on a failed, half on save). A PC who fell victim to Keyleth’s Blight would not die automatically, either (unless they were somehow a nonmagical plant, as explained in the spell description). Many attacks that use necrotic damage also have an instant death effect tied to them, but dealing necrotic damage to a player character with low HP isn’t necessarily the kiss of death for them.įrom the non-instant-kill side, you bring up the Banshee’s Corrupting Touch (average of 12 necrotic damage). As anti-life energy, it is harmful to living creatures, but may have little or no effect on undead or constructs. Necrotic damage, by itself, is simply a type of damage. Is it a rule in 5e that Necrotic damage that takes you down to 0 is an auto-kill? Because I seem to recall it was the same way during the K'varn fight with Grog, and that was also the fear at the end of the Ziggurat fight? Or maybe Matt just forgot about it? But, in Whispers (29) Percy also goes down to 0 from the Banshee's slash that deals Necrotic damage, yet doesn't die. Killed by Grog in a challenge for herd leadership.Īnonymous asks: In The Sunken Tomb (44) Vex dies instantly from being hit with enough Necrotic damage to take her down to 0. Took advantage of the destruction of Westruun to take the city for his own before being subjugated by a returning Umbrasyl.Beat Grog and ejected him from the Herd of Storms when he refused to kill Wilhand Trickfoot.Grog’s uncle and head of the Herd of Storms.
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