Retaining Consciousness: When you are reduced to 0 hit points, and begin dying, you may wish to retain consciousness and say your final farewells, give last-minute advice, or insult your enemies, drawing their ire towards you in your last moments.

 

Special Concentration Check: Make a Concentration Check. The DC for staying concious is 10, or half the damage that felled you to 0 hit points, whichever is greater. On a success, you retain consciousness, on a failure, you become unconscious. Regardless of the Result, you fall prone and are not able to rise, and you make saving throws as normal.

 

No Spell Concentration: Because you are focusing your efforts on staying conscious, a Spellcaster that is concentrating on a spell is no longer able to concentrate.

 

Minimal Activity: As you are concentrating solely on staying conscious, you are limited in what actions you may take. You are restricted to Speach, and the Item Interaction. You may usue Item Interaction to stow/draw a small item, such as a locket, or a cigarette for last rites, or to make an attempt to shove an item toward an ally. Whichever you decide to do, ask the DM for approval, if it is accepted, you may do so.

As normal you are restricted to 25 words ar round.

 

I Didn't Hear No Bell!: Using your 25 words per round, you may choose to insult enemies, drawing their aggression back toward you. This of course puts you in further peril, but may draw attention enough for your allies to either escape, or counterattack the enemy. Make a Persuasion or Deception check against an enemy(ies) insight.

When you would suffer your third failed Death save, you may enter a Final Stand- burning through the remainder of your Life Force for one final assault, be it to protect another until help arrives, or to buy time for your allies to flee.

 

When you undertake a Final Stand, you become conscious, end any negative effect currently on you, become immune to the charmed and frightened, confused and unconscious conditions, and gain your maximum hit points as special Temporary Hit points, which expire at the end of the encounter. Once these Hit points are spent or expire, you die, and you are unable to be revived, finding peace with your death.

 

While performing a Final Stand, you are considered under the Dodge action, your movement speed is halved, and you make attack rolls at advantage. Opportunity attacks also do not cost your reaction, and you cannot be healed by any means. If you are a spellcaster, you regain half your maximum Spell Points.

 

At the end of each hostile creature's turn, you can either move your speed toward another creature or make a single attack or cast a cantrip.

When a Character fails 3 death saving throws, they die, and their soul moves onto the In-Between, waiting to be ferried by Thanatos or one of his Azrael. If a dead character is revived by revivify, they are brought back to life, and recover 1 failed Death Saving throw.

If a Character is revived with a 4th level spell or higher, with a casting time longer than 1 Action they recover all failed saving throws. If the spell has a casting time of 1 action, the creature is revived with 1 recovered Death Saving Throw.

The journey through the afterlife typically takes 14 to 28 days (longer journeys are known to happen), after which, a soul finds its resting place in either the Heavens, or The Underworld, and is no longer considered free, even if it is willing.

 

A creature that dies often and is revived many times, may become restrained on its journey through the Afterlife, and may only be revived through Thanatos' Blessing.

 

A soul that has found its resting place in either The Heavens or The Underworld, can typically only be revived by appeasing Aetien or Diabolos respectively. In rare instances, a Soul in the Underworld may break free of its binds, becoming free to escape, however, finding the exit is a journey in and of itself. Once the Exit has been found, the Soul returns to its body, regardless of time's passage.

 

While a soul may not be "free" in the Heavens or in The Underworld, it still knows it has been targeted by a revival or resurrection spell.

 

 A God's or equal power, or the Wish spell can bypass limitations on revival spells, but will on occasion raise flags should that creature meet another demise.