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What would you do if the character had multiple hd sizes from multi-classing?

Or I could say the HD used in blood magic has to naturally restore. (I'm expending hd, not taking a hd's worth of damage).

Thanks, that is a thoughtfull and well reasoned reply. I am certainly going to have to reconsider the costs. (My 1st thought was to treat a hd as a sorcery point in power.)

I dont like debating online, cause nuance is lost in text. But I will give it one last try. Y'all are taking about failure state in games. Game is responsible for being a functioning game, as published or its a failure. Agreed. I am trying to say you can cover rough areas by learning and...

I have no idea how I multi-quoted, my apologies. @EzekielRaiden , @Reynard

We never said there wasnt unique people or abilities. But dont most if not all npc examples of magi I think we are debating extremes. Of course the game gives you guidelines or its a failure of a game. And having better rules for monsters would be nice. But they will never cover all...

Until you learn how to solve the problem.

How about instead of wildly making up numbers, you look at existing creatures of an appropriate challenge and compare? We've (the community) been making up monsters from day 1.

to look at the framework and pick out the parts that are applicable to the encounter and have the equivalent of a PC (abbreviated).

We always wanted a 5 star win. My evil friend would research nukes and vuild just one, threatening to use it if we didnt agree to his politics. Cause if even one nuke goes off, the best you can have is a 4 star win.

This has always been a favorite.

Thats fair. There are some fantasy based songs out there that aren't metal, but perhaps thats a tangent.

Like this?

This has some potential to be the way.

I consider sorcerers to be the "semi-natural adepts" of the arcane world. Just like a fighter covers everything from gladiator, to town guard, to skilled duelist, to a simple fighter doing the best he can with a big stick, Sorcerers are the big bucket. Having fewer spells made them "themed"...

You're cool. There is occasionally an instinctive backlash here at EN world when a DM says "my story". Even though the DM is usually talking about their shared game as a whole.

Me neither. But I want to use the same "framework", I just only put the things important to the encounter in the statblock. Here's an AD&D statblock I made for "Sleepysnakes" Sleepysnake; AC: 8, HP: 10, Bite 1-3, save vs Para Poison (Sleep)* *created from memory

The recent "defiler" UA looks more like blood magic to me. And it got me thinking. My previous version of blood magic was too complicated. The defiler mechanic seems perfect. But then I thought, extra damage is nice, but if you want to have "MOAR" power because you use evil blood magic...