How does "death" work in this game?

[Aria Athena]

I mean the kind that requires a scroll of resurrection.

I thought there was a negative percentage based threshold, that if your life went under, you would die. In the beginning it seemed to be 50%, then I though it was around 30, but as time went by people with 100 hp started dying at -15 health.... sometimes.

[Kommissar K]

You die when you hit the negative value of your Constitution score.

So if you're Con 16, you die at -16.

As well, if Con drain/damage reduces you to 0, you die.

And if you take negative levels equal to your level, you die.

[Jaeger Pilot]

The pnp rules:

Dying: A dying creature is unconscious and near death. Creatures that have negative hit points and have not stabilized are dying. A dying creature can take no actions. On the character’s next turn, after being reduced to negative hit points (but not dead), and on all subsequent turns, the character must make a DC 10 Constitution check to become stable. The character takes a penalty on this roll equal to his negative hit point total. A character that is stable does not need to make this check. A natural 20 on this check is an automatic success. If the character fails this check, he loses 1 hit point. If a dying creature has an amount of negative hit points equal to its Constitution score, it dies.

Dead: The character’s hit points are reduced to a negative amount equal to his Constitution score, his Constitution drops to 0, or he is killed outright by a spell or effect. The character’s soul leaves his body. Dead characters cannot benefit from normal or magical healing, but they can be restored to life via magic. A dead body decays normally unless magically preserved, but magic that restores a dead character to life also restores the body either to full health or to its condition at the time of death (depending on the spell or device). Either way, resurrected characters need not worry about rigor mortis, decomposition, and other conditions that affect dead bodies.

[Aria Athena]

Nyaaaa

So as the game goes on, the unconscious state will be gradually brought to extinction and practically replaced by death.

[Jaeger Pilot]

Originally posted by Aria Athena:

Nyaaaa

So as the game goes on, the unconscious state will be gradually brought to extinction and practically replaced by death.

How do you mean? Because enemies do so much more damage by then?
You can turn on the Death's Door option in the difficulty menu.

[Grifta]

Just a heads up; There is a Level 5 spell (Need Cleric 9) called Breath of Life. It's basically like shock paddles.
When someone dies; you have 12 seconds to cast it to give them 5d8+level healing. If that brings them back to higher than -CON, then they're alive.

[dulany67]

I havnt succeeded with Breath of life yet.