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[–] ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml 104 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

Commoners have 4hp. So, for reference, 4 successful baby scratches drops an average, normal person to zero HP and they are rendered unconscious and have about a 40% chance of death if they don't receive medical aid.

But STR/DEX would be 1 bc 0 is not possible. Would have a -5 to hit - so 30% on an AC10 unarmored commoner.

I think this means you have a 0.3% chance of permadeath in an encounter with a baby if they only make 4 attacks and you don't hit back and they don't keep scratching your unconscious body.

If they attack you 10 times (1 minute of scratching w/ 6 sec turns), there is a 20% chance they land 4 scratches on you and you have a 40% chance to permadie once downed - so 8% chance of permadeath in one 10 turn encounter with a baby with the same stipulations as above.

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 62 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Commoner here: this is accurate.

[–] Dadifer@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

Yeah, sounds about right

[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Am a parent, can confirm, I am dead.

Just on the inside tho

[–] Archpawn@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Or if the DM rolls for HP, they have a 1/8 chance of dying from one hit. Maybe they get death saves, but those are optional if it's not a PC.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 1 week ago

Aren't they also -5 to hit due to lack of str?

[–] Redacted@lemmy.zip 27 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Technically this is a dead baby RAW

[–] Gyroplast@pawb.social 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Would you prefer it COOKED, you psycho?!

[–] Redacted@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 week ago

Well if the campaigns gonna kill a baby it might head towards cannibalism too

[–] nylo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] igmelonh@feddit.online 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

iirc in D&D if any of your stats reach 0 you die. Might be only body stats (str/dex/con), not sure.

[–] Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think I remember Wis doesn't kill you at 0, but you go fully insane and lose control of your character. But that might just be older versions and not 5th ed rules. I feel like I recall something about going into a coma if Int hits zero, maybe that is new rules for mental stats...?

[–] Redacted@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Youre correct, at least in 3e only 0 con kills you outright. All the others just make you comatose or some other state in which you lose control of your character.

But in 5e all 0 attribute states mean you die.

[–] scratchee@feddit.uk 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So 0 charisma means you die of ugliness? You’re so disgusted by yourself you just stop breathing? Or the gods find you so unappealing they reach down and snuff you out?

[–] Redacted@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Iirc you lose all sense of yourself and experience total ego death, then real death follows. Charisma is more than just how hot you are.

[–] scratchee@feddit.uk 3 points 1 week ago

That makes sense, we’ve all had days like that

[–] Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Charisma is more than just how hot you are.

This. While "seduction" is not technically a skill, that could fit under Persuasion or Deception, depending on how you go about it, and this still leaves Performance and Intimidation, soooooo....

[–] Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago

Str or Dex at 0 = death in RAW. Granted this uses Agility instead of Dex, so I have no idea what established system (if any) they are using, but my guess is this is what above commenter is referencing.

[–] bluegreenpurplepink@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Hilarious. Just needs the Shout spell.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 week ago

Guess it's random, one of mine came with the inferno spell, the other had deafening shriek.

[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 week ago

Or alarm. Sometimes Tasha's uncontrollable laughter.

[–] Echo5@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I wish my baby would cast sleep on itself.

[–] Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 38 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Just because they can, doesn't mean they will. They are saving it, Baby doesn't get many spell slots so they gotta make them count.

[–] topherclay@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So essentially they won't go to sleep because they don't know when their next long rest will be.

[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"My baby in Christ, you will be inducing the long rest."

[–] joyjoy@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Wisdom is 1. They can't know that.

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Charisma reaches -4 just before they turn two

seems about right

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Charisma goes down by 1 from 20 once a month for 24 months, it already hits 1

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes, but it might gain other buffs to Charisma between now and 24 months. Charisma is forced to 1 at 24 months regardless.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Clearly I don't play D&D

[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 1 week ago

My memory is they're max Cha until age 2, some even beyond that. I don't think Cha drops gradually, I think it's all at once from 20 to 1

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Random debuff: 0.1% chance per turn to take 100 damage while sleeping.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 1 week ago

1/3000 in Australia so 0.03%

[–] Deconceptualist@leminal.space 11 points 1 week ago

Cloudkill 😆

[–] IntriguedIceberg@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (4 children)

So... are baby nails a thing to be wary of? Funny

[–] birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 6 days ago

They can scratch you while still in the womb. From what I heard it's not fun.

[–] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 6 points 1 week ago

Baby nails are sharp, thin and attached to a thing that flails around aimlessly. The greatest danger is to eyes.

[–] scratchee@feddit.uk 5 points 1 week ago

Yup, my daughter cut her nose quite a few times just rubbing her face, and slice us regularly. They grow from well trimmed to dangerous weapons in less than a week so there’s no avoiding it really

they are often on flesh that has no callus

[–] Fmstrat@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Charisma should not drop negative and then rebound to 1 at 24 months. Please revise.

Default rules state that stats can not go below zero, extra negatives will only go into effect if buffs are applied such as +2 baby clothes

[–] tamal3@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wasn't Carl only an intelligence of three when he first entered the dungeon?

Different system