HeavenShallBurn said:Well they have said that rolling for HP is gone multiple times since the announcement.
Plane Sailing said:Can you think of any specific examples of this?
I ask because nothing has been put on the 4th edition news page to this effect, and if you can come up with a solid cite for it, we can get it on there.
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Lord Zardoz said:Static HP are something that while not exactly bad, are not something I would use for the players.
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The most direct official pronouncement was the one in the podcast where it was said "what hit dice? There are no hit dice." But I'm also fairly sure I saw a reference in one of the WoTC staff posts within the last couple weeks. It was in the discussion about monster roles and levels, an offhand mention that PC HP were no longer random either. As I don't have search it's taking time to wade through all those old threads.Plane Sailing said:Can you think of any specific examples of this?
I ask because nothing has been put on the 4th edition news page to this effect, and if you can come up with a solid cite for it, we can get it on there.
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I agree with this. And as the action resolution mechanics (which take the character build numbers as inputs) have grown in sophistication and importance, the potential to outplay the opposition with poor numbers has become increasingly reduced.sinecure said:I think hit points are random because a lot of things were random in the beginning.
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And the randomness meant some people were better and some worse and you couldn't complain about it. You just outplayed the opposition.
Yep.DamnedChoir said:the longer I've played the game and the more D&D has developed into a tactical, ridiculously overbalanced game of number crunching. (The earlier editions were not like this.)
Many designers have stated, even before 4E was announced, that the vastly diverging hitpoint totals of the various classes were one major problem of D&D. Monte Cook in particular regretted designing D4 HP classes, and therefore killed them off in Arcana Unearthed.Rechan said:Well, I for one would not have a problem with that, but Khuxan's 6 hp for a defender is a Joke. That's just 2 more than the mage, who we keep being told are smooshy.
Nathan P. Mahney said:Boo. My players will still be rolling for hit points! I may even reinstitute rolling at 1st level as a form of protest!
Dragonblade said:I would. Rolling for HP is an artifact of the game best left out of a new edition.