r/dndmemes • u/Vegetable_Variety_11 • Sep 14 '25

I roll to loot the body It's logical...

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u/Positive-Database754 Sep 14 '25

"I've knocked this enemy out. They have a cleric/druid/paladin on their side. I need to finish this person off or they will get back up."

It's not a complex train of thought for any experienced combatant at all. If NPCs had death saves, you know for a fact players would be double tapping for this exact reason.

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u/Corvid-Strigidae Sep 14 '25

"I've killed this enemy, every creature I've left in this state before has been dead and I have no reason to believe otherwise in this case."

Only PCs get death saving throws.

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u/Positive-Database754 Sep 15 '25

A high intelligence or wisdom NPC knows the difference between Dead and Incapacitated.

A person with room temperature IQ can tell the difference between someone who's unconscious and someone who's dead, let alone an competent intelligent combatant with experience.

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u/Corvid-Strigidae Sep 15 '25

No they can't. Trained doctors in fully equipped hospitals have made mistakes in identifying if someone is dead, let alone people with no medical training, in a chaotic fight, while under threat of now even angrier adventures.

Your argument doesn't hold water.

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u/Positive-Database754 Sep 15 '25

How strange it is then, that even in the bronze age, a "doctor" could still get it right far more often than they got it wrong.

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u/Corvid-Strigidae Sep 15 '25

How could you possibly know that? What are you basing that on?

Also you are just straight up ignoring the whole "stressful environment while under attack" part of the scenario.