Props to this person for never washing their mouth off their friend's blood. I'm sure they had the chance to do it, but chose to walk all over the hospital with their mouth covered in blood so that the nurse could see it, otherwise the joke wouldn't have landed.
You ever try to get blood out in a hurry?
I mean, obviously this is the internet and nothing is real, but it's not impossible that they still had some blood on them in the frenzy to get to the hospital.
I don't know how hospitals work in the US (assuming that OP is a US citizen, because that's what we do on the internet), but where I come from, determining the cause of an injury is very important to decide on an effective treatment. Bites in particular are very nasty and can lead to a lot of scary complications (including human bites!).
There's no way in hell the nurse just said "yeah ok got it fam" and went along with her day like it wasn't important.
And maybe I'm too jaded, but I read "we also got engaged" and my mind automatically added "and everyone clapped" at the end of the sentence lol
I mean, there is plenty of time to lick lips on the way to the hospital.
Use water? It takes 2 seconds to wash blood off of skin with plain ol water.
Once when my sister and I were teenagers, she was hogging the computer and so I just picked up the chair with her in it to move her out of my way. As I walked past, her friend (whom I hadn't touched) used her bite to make an attack of opportunity against me. It wasn't gentle - there was no blood but there were tooth-marks.
I had mixed feelings afterwards. On the one hand, it hurt. On the other hand, a girl touched me. With her mouth. I had never been kissed at that point but being bitten was close...
(I didn't end up marrying her.)
Also a d6 bite is nonsense. The average commoner has 4 hp and 10 strength, so one commoner would be able to kill another commoner with a single bite 50% of the time. I'm not saying a human bite can't be lethal, but it's not "stabbed with a shortsword" lethal. Meanwhile, even a d4 bite from a level 1, 16-str barbarian is already invariably lethal to a commoner.
(Yeah, I know, HP isn't supposed to be realistic, etc. I just hate fun.)
Given the nastiness of the human mouth, "fight bite" (hand cuts from accidentally punching teeth) is often treated with antibiotics. On that basis I'd stick with at most 1d2 damage, plus lingering status effects to the hand unless you have disease curing abilities or medicaments. Maybe the damage sticks unless specially treated, and untreated you can lose the hand to infection?
Yeah, but that would be treated like poison damage at a later time with a savings throw.
I love this post and not just because I appreciate realism in gaming.
When I was in second grade a girl I barely knew and a boy I only slightly knew more were wrestling. I thought he was about to lose the upper hand so I intervened and the girl and I wound up rolling down a small hill, I don’t recall if that was part of my attack plan but let’s just say it was.
Now at the bottom of the hill she wound up with the high ground and while I lay on my back with my stomach exposed. She took this opportunity to bite me and while similarly it didn’t break skin I was still taken to the hospital for shots. Cassie, I still think about you sometimes.
Guys will be like "why do women fall for jerks?" then spend their whole lives thinking about a girl who bit them so hard they needed shots. Brains are weird.
I mean, if you're going to attempt to kill with a bite, I'd assume they're going for the neck or other particularly vulnerable place. I'd argue commoner bite attacks should have very low chance to hit, but could plausibly be lethal. Most places they get a good bite won't be able to do any damage, except maybe cause a Con save for disease.... I'd say an improvised attack with Disadvantage for 1d6 damage probably works pretty well.
Yeah, a bite is more like a dagger than a short sword. Plus barbarians already get an extra +2 damage while raging, which makes their bites average more than a d6 plus strength with the same max damage.
Beast barbarians can even cause their teeth to grow during a rage giving them a d8 bite attack.
LOL, that's amazing.
Also, d4 is the damage of a dagger, which is a weapon made specifically to kill people and has a ~25% chance of killing a commoner (who typically has 4 hp) in one hit with just the rolled damage.
I'd give it a flat 1HP, if that. Unless you get me in the neck, I doubt any human bite would take 25% of this commoners HP.
Thing is, if you're trying to bite someone to death the neck is the most natural target (vs. bending down to take a chunk out of their stomach or trying to open the veins in the arms). The difficulty is more in actually getting in range, which realistically would get down to grappling in a fight.
Do commoners not go down to -9? I don't think any session I've ever played bothered with caring about the peasantry, lmao
NPCs and monsters automatically die at zero HP in DmD 5th and the editions prior that I was the DM for. There was a reminder that the DM could choose to let them go under, but the default was death on zero for non-player characters and monsters.
Just imagine tracking death saving throws for every NPC and weak monsters....
Not since 3.5.
You have to stab him with a dagger too and see which is worse.
You have to do it many times to weigh the average
And compute the standard deviation.
I'm loving the comments.
Half of them are discussing the game mechanics and damage of the bite.
The other half are sharing the feelings of affection that apparently came from being bitten.I mean, if a friend bit you would it not cause some aff-Oh, just friends, not roommates...hm...
And then everyone clapped.
i know people on the Internet have seemingly impossibly boring lives where nothing ever happens to them - but this isn't even that hard to believe
It just seems like a bit much to be believable to me.
It makes me think of a story that they wanted to tell, but they realized it was maybe kind of boring, so they added fun details for the sake of it.
I'm sure elements of it are true, like I'd be willing to bet the whole thing about the damage going from a d4 to d6 was just a conversation.
It's a cute story for sure, but for me, it's a touch beyond the suspension of disbelief.
But hey, if I'm wrong, I wish them many happy returns.
I don't know, I don't think anyone would come up with something like this.
Frankly, it sounds plausible.
That's just kinky with extra steps
Pretty sure that's what the nurse assumed.
I'm not confident the nurse was wrong!
yeah okay that happens
You don't leave the blood from your bite victims smeared across your mouth when you take them to the emergency room?
OP got blood-bonded lmao
His DM: "I don't believe you. Bite me. HARD. 😈"
Of all the happenings, this is certainly the mostiust definitius.
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I actually did bite my dm with explicit consent. because I was trying to argue that a ranger/barbarian's bite would be d6+Strength Modifier. and not d4+Strength Modifier. and he was like lmao human bites aren't even that strong. and I said bet. and he said well bite me then as strong as an 18 attack roll would be (the prison guard had 14AC btw) and we had to stop the game because he had to go get stitches.
also he didn't wanna say he let himself get bit to win an argument that he lost so badly he's in the emergency room, so he was like "a rat did it" and the nurse turns her head 12 degrees to the left and sees my bloody mouth. and goes "yeah okay that happens"
and we did get the barbarian bite attack to be d6+Strength Modifier. I'm also now engaged to this guy and this campaign I get to be the dm!
probablybadrpgideas Absolute rollercoaster, but congrats on the engagement - Paper
Everyone knows a bite attack's damage is just strength + successes rolled lethal damage. Agg if you are some kinda freak.
