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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sinecure" data-source="post: 4043437" data-attributes="member: 37668">I think hit points are random because a lot of things were random in the beginning.  Everything wasn't meant to be balanced.  I don't think people whined about balance as much either or were as shortchanged by a difference in a level or two between PCs.  It sounds like 4th edition will be flatter too.  So I'm happy for that.Stats and hit points and starting money and probably some other stuff I don't even know of were all random.  My guess is they were random because we are born with random abilities in real life.  And the randomness meant some people were better and some worse and you couldn't complain about it.  You just outplayed the opposition.</blockquote>