Combat needs a knockout state

Yup, the bleedout/unconscious rule I’m drawing from here was specifically marked as an optional rule in the player’s handbook (even in a game where all rules are by their nature optional). From what I remember, though, pretty much every AD&D computer game (baldur’s gate, pool of radiance, etc.) made it the default normal rule, though some may have had a hardcore-mode toggle to opt out of it.

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