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[Wed Oct 8 19:37:15 2014] : Game connected!
[Wed Oct 8 19:37:15 2014] : DM (enter): 19:37
[Wed Oct 8 19:37:15 2014] : Hildy (enter): 19:37
[Wed Oct 8 19:37:27 2014] : Moving to room 'Sealed Archives'..
[Wed Oct 8 19:37:27 2014] : DM (enter): 19:37
[Wed Oct 8 19:37:27 2014] : Server Administrator->
[Wed Oct 8 19:42:07 2014] : Hildy (enter): 19:42
[Wed Oct 8 19:46:58 2014] : Hildy: Dispel Magic: Level 3 - Dispels one spell, either specified or highest spell beaten by dispel check; Check = [1d20(15) + 8] = 23; (180 ft range;)
[Wed Oct 8 19:47:56 2014] : Hildy: Dispel Magic: Level 3 - Dispels one spell, either specified or highest spell beaten by dispel check (11 + Caster level of spell); Check = [1d20(3) + 8] = 11; (180 ft range;)
[Wed Oct 8 19:49:23 2014] : Miriam (enter): 19:49
[Wed Oct 8 19:50:21 2014] : Attempting to assign the role of PLAYER to (13) Miriam...
[Wed Oct 8 19:50:25 2014] : Attempting to assign the role of PLAYER to (11) Hildy...
[Wed Oct 8 19:50:56 2014] : Miriam: Morning all :-)
[Wed Oct 8 19:52:19 2014] : Hildy: Hi
[Wed Oct 8 19:52:24 2014] : Hildy: (again)
[Wed Oct 8 19:54:30 2014] : Miriam: LOL
[Wed Oct 8 19:57:50 2014] : Hildy: Breath of Life: Level 5 - Heals [5d8(6,5,3,3,5) + 8] = 30 HP. Returns creatures slain within 1 round back to life and stabilises them.
[Wed Oct 8 19:58:00 2014] : Hildy: Restoration: Level 4 - Cures [1d4(4)] = 4 points of ability damage and also dispels temporary negative levels or one permanent negative level
[Wed Oct 8 20:00:26 2014] : Hildy: Breath of life is a useful spell!
[Wed Oct 8 20:01:14 2014] : Miriam: It looks great :)
[Wed Oct 8 20:01:43 2014] : Hildy: Unfortunately it's not spontaneous
[Wed Oct 8 20:02:10 2014] : Hildy: So it would essentially permanently take up a level 5 spell slot
[Wed Oct 8 20:02:25 2014] : Miriam: Need tea, BRB
[Wed Oct 8 20:04:04 2014] : Hildy: Unless a kind DM would house rule it as spontaneously castable ;-)
[Wed Oct 8 20:05:03 2014] : Miriam: LOL
[Wed Oct 8 20:08:35 2014] : DM: Parse error: invalid adjective.
[Wed Oct 8 20:09:27 2014] : Hildy: Unless a kind DM would house rule it as suitable for spontaneous casting ;-)
[Wed Oct 8 20:09:49 2014] : DM: "Kind" was the invalid adjective ;)
[Wed Oct 8 20:11:25 2014] : Hildy: LOL
[Wed Oct 8 20:13:11 2014] : Miriam: LMAO
[Wed Oct 8 20:14:40 2014] : Hildy:
 James Jacobs Creative Director 	May 3, 2011, 05:28 PM | Flag |
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James Jacobs

Breath of life effectively rescues someone from death BEFORE that negative level sets in. If you "die" and are restored to life within a round by breath of life, you do not gain a negative level.

Note also that it's a great idea to have multiple characters in a party have breath of life if possible; you can cast the spell multiple times in that crucial round, after all, which is how you can use the spell to rescue someone at a hideous amount of damage like, say –100 hp or whatever.

I also STRONGLY suggest adopting this house rule: rename "breath of life" into "cure deadly wounds." That way, clerics can spontaneously cast it.

[Wed Oct 8 20:15:00 2014] : Hildy: ..
[Wed Oct 8 20:15:01 2014] : Hildy: ..
[Wed Oct 8 20:15:04 2014] : Hildy: Apologies
[Wed Oct 8 20:15:20 2014] : Hildy: That came out a lot worse than I expected
[Wed Oct 8 20:15:55 2014] : DM: Link?
[Wed Oct 8 20:16:04 2014] : Hildy: But basically one of the Paizo Creative directors recommends House rule rename to Cure Deadly Wounds
[Wed Oct 8 20:17:28 2014] : Hildy: http://paizo.com/threads/rzs2m7cd?Breath-of-Life-Useless#28
[Wed Oct 8 20:17:57 2014] : Hildy: To be honest the rest of his post doesn't make sense, just the house rule bit :-)
[Wed Oct 8 20:21:38 2014] : Hildy: Though apparently according to the posts further down, he created the spell!
[Wed Oct 8 20:24:42 2014] : DM: The sponteneous spell for 5th level is cure light wounds, mass.
[Wed Oct 8 20:25:15 2014] : Hildy: Yes
[Wed Oct 8 20:25:37 2014] : Hildy: But that doesn't preclude another cure spell at that level
[Wed Oct 8 20:25:46 2014] : Hildy: It's just a suggestion
[Wed Oct 8 20:26:20 2014] : Hildy: Though as I say, the spell designer himself house rules the spell as cure deadly wounds to enable it to be spontaneous
[Wed Oct 8 20:29:58 2014] : DM: It seems reasonable if inflict deadly wounds is introduced as well.
[Wed Oct 8 20:30:41 2014] : Miriam: Damn evil DM's and their logic! ;-)
[Wed Oct 8 20:32:03 2014] : DM: I think we've waited long enough.
[Wed Oct 8 20:32:07 2014] : Hildy: You'd need to come up with a worse affliction for that to make it match
[Wed Oct 8 20:32:27 2014] : Hildy: 5d8 + level and -1 temp level??
[Wed Oct 8 20:33:01 2014] : Hildy: You could even remove Mass CLW
[Wed Oct 8 20:33:04 2014] : DM: A suggestion that it would work the same for undead as breath of life for live creatures sounded good to me.
[Wed Oct 8 20:33:37 2014] : Hildy: Oooh, save the Vampire at the last minute!
[Wed Oct 8 20:33:43 2014] : DM: Yeah.
[Wed Oct 8 20:33:44 2014] : Miriam: LOL
[Wed Oct 8 20:34:14 2014] : Hildy: Fair enough
[Wed Oct 8 20:35:38 2014] : DM: See you all next week when I hope people will actually turn up.
[Wed Oct 8 20:36:03 2014] : Miriam: OK, see you next week.
[Wed Oct 8 20:36:11 2014] : Miriam: Goodnight and sweet dreams, dear
[Wed Oct 8 20:36:16 2014] : Miriam (exit): 20:36
[Wed Oct 8 20:36:31 2014] : Hildy: Night then
[Wed Oct 8 20:36:32 2014] : DM: Bye
[Wed Oct 8 20:36:35 2014] : Hildy (exit): 20:36