If the spell reduces one or the other to zero only the one goes down. Right? Or does the tether drag the second into death save land?
— Brian Clark not @Gencon (@b81clark) March 16, 2020
Only the one. The spell ends immediately if one of them drops to 0 Hp.
— Matthew Mercer (@matthewmercer) March 16, 2020
Question: When one of the creatures hits 0, does the spell immediately end and the other creature doesn’t take the damage that brought the first to 0? Or is it, damage > both creatures take damage > one drops to 0 > spell ends?
I.e. how immediate is the end? The damage is still shared between the two immediately, so the spell ends after the damage taken is shared.— Matthew Mercer (@matthewmercer) March 16, 2020
Cool spell! Question if one of the tethered is at max HP can I still heal them to help the other end of the tether regain lost hit points? MAX Hp means you can’t be “restored” any hit points, so healing one target at max would not heal the other.
— Matthew Mercer (@matthewmercer) March 16, 2020
Would the spell end if one of the tethers was a half-orc brought to zero and then brought back to 1 from his race’s ability? Since the half-orc ability prevents HP from actually hitting 0, I believe the spell would not end.
— Matthew Mercer (@matthewmercer) March 16, 2020
This would be stupid good in a war situation.
Have your frontline soldiers, who have a focus on reducing incoming damage, tethered to an equal number of individuals away from the conflict who spend their time getting healed. Though you cannot be restored any hit points if you are at maximum HP, soooo… 😉— Matthew Mercer (@matthewmercer) March 16, 2020
But they’d know when the other would have been dealt damage because they’d suffer it as well and just heal themselves afterwards. True that!
— Matthew Mercer (@matthewmercer) March 16, 2020
Isn’t that a really expensive spell to have it fail if either target succeeds their saving throw? I mean I get it as a healing spell. But if you wanted to cast it maliciously. The price is a little steep, but high risk/high reward. 🙂
— Matthew Mercer (@matthewmercer) March 16, 2020