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Dark Tira
2007-06-16, 03:47 AM
If my HP is -10 but I have 12 temporary hit points would I still be alive?

Jack Mann
2007-06-16, 03:58 AM
You couldn't have -10 hit points and still have 12 temporary hit points, unless you somehow got temporary hit points after reaching -10. They are always lost first.

If you had a spell like delay death cast on you, and then you received the temporary hit points, then you would effectively have 2 hit points, until the temporary hit points went away, at which point you would die. It would, therefore, be a very good idea to find a cleric of a potion of cure X wounds.

Dark Tira
2007-06-16, 04:07 AM
Well in this case I was a Favored Soul/Sanctified One of Wee Jas using the Favored Soul Alternate Class Feature. I cast Divine Power on myself during a Sanctified Fall giving me 12 temporary HP while I was still alive though I was about to die.
Overall I think I agree with your analysis though. Sounds about what I would have assumed but I just wanted to be sure.