Lingering Spirit

Prerequisite:

Gemologist 4

Benefit:

The gemologist is familiar enough with the ties between their body and spirit that they linger at death’s door far longer than a normal person. They treat their Constitution as 10 points higher than normal for the purpose of determining when hit point damage kills them (so a gemologmist with a Constitution of 10 and this discovery dies at –20 hit points instead of –10). Reducing them to 0 Constitution or its equivalent (from ability damage, ability drain, Constitution penalties, and so on) makes them unconscious and comatose, but they are only killed after taking an additional 5 points of Constitution damage, drain, or penalty (in effect, the gemologist must be brought to –5 Constitution in order to be killed by these attacks).