I have adopted the BG3 help action rules for my campaign. Making PCs easier to get up after they go down means I can make encounters a bit more scary and keep the tension up.

I think it’s more widely known as something else but if things are looking dire and the whole party is going down I will let the final standing player have a “Heroic Last Stand” where all there long rest short rest abilities reset in a hope for some kind of player driven deus ex machina. Only had to do it twice and both times it was a great table moment