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Does anyone know how to cure this?

Visit your local cleric or priest?

Just use the restoration scrolls you find at every corner as soon as you're level 1.

"And now the true test... hold fast, or expire?" (Cit)

I did not find any restoration scrolls.

Death's Door condition occurs when your character is knocked down to 0 hit points. The way to fix this is to have another character go over to them and use the help action, which will get them back on their feet with 1 hp.

In 5e rules, when you are down you need to make a death saving throw each round. This is a roll with a difficulty class of 10. If you fail three cumulative saves first, you die. If you make three successful saves first you get back up with 1hp.

I am not sure what this game is using for the DC, but I have yet to make a single successful death saving throw in this game. Only reason I haven't had a dead character is because of the help action and the Revivify scroll (which each character gets one of in their inventory). With a DC of 10, each roll should be a 50/50 chance.

(Larian might want to think about difficulty settings for the game. I've put the EA down for now as I'm just a wimp who wants to see the story and not spend my day banging my head against a brick wall of failed dice rolls. Also might want to check to see if the dice are properly random. I mean, I know I'm a horrible roller of dice in tabletop games but...)

Z.

I'm sure that someone will make a mod that lets you roll success on every check.

Really? I thought that you just stay "downed" when you make three successful saves ...
Or at least that is what mine companions do. :-/

3 Saves and they just keep laying there on the ground waiting for help.

Mine too, but I think they're supposed to get up.

By 5E rules, you don't get up unless you roll a natural 20 (in which case you get 1 hp):



Also by the rules, "help" doesn't automatically give you 1 hp. It requires a DC 10 medicine check to just get the character stable — although in practice usually DMs allow pouring a healing potion down their throat.


Also in practice, DMs usually ignore downed characters, which makes real-world sense if there are active enemies attacking you. In BG3, I notice that almost all enemies keep pounding on downed party members until they're really dead. I'm not super happy with this — some enemies might act that way (and I can definitely see goblins taking the opportunistic vicious blow!), but most aren't.