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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Patryn of Elvenshae" data-source="post: 1863006" data-attributes="member: 23094">So, in other words, he's rolled on average 9.5 for each level-up.  There's a small chance that he's rolled a 1 somewhere along the line, since he must come up with 38 hp on 4 rolls, or 35 hp on 3 rolls (assuming a single roll of a 1).  Note that in no case could he have rolled multiple 1s, since then he'd need 32 hp on 2 rolls.Summary:CL  | New HP | Total HP | 50 less HP1  | 12 | 12 | 382  | 3 | 15 | 353  | 3 | 18 | 324  | 12 | 30 | 205  | 12 | 42 | 8So, we'll assume he has max 1st-level HP, and average after that:CL  | New HP | Total HP | 50 Less HP1  | 12 | 12 | 382  | 10 | 22 | 283  | 9 | 31 | 194  | 10 | 41 | 95  | 9 | 50 | 0Correct.  In fact, what happens is he changes to:CL  | New HP | Total HP1  | 10 | 102  | 8 | 183  | 7 | 254  | 8 | 335  | 7 | 40Note that, in this case, he loses 10 current and 10 max HP, because the reduction in Con bonus does not cause any individual HD roll to hit the 1 point minimum. He loses, again, 10 current and 10 max HP, dropping him to 0 / 40.  He's staggered.If he was already staggered (at 0 / 50) when the Con damage was dealt, he'd drop dead immediately.EDIT:OK, for fun, we'll assume that the Fighter 5 with 50 HPs had been unlucky once while rolling his HP, but very lucky the rest of the time.  His hit point progression now looks like:CL  | New HP | Total HP | 50 less HP1  | 12 | 12 | 382  | 3 | 15 | 353  | 12 | 27 | 234  | 12 | 39 | 115  | 11 | 50 | 0Now, instead of being hit with a 4-point Con damage attack (which is just enough to set his Con bonus to 0), he's instead hit with a 6-point Con damage attack.  What happens?  The knee-jerk reaction is that he's now at 50 - (3 * 5) = 35 Max and Current HPs (and, generally, this formulation will work).However, that 3 at 2nd-level causes a bit of a problem, since it cannot be reduced to less than 1.  So, what really happens is his HP progression changes to:CL  | New HP | Total HP 1  | 9 | 92  | 1 | 103  | 9 | 194  | 9 | 285  | 8 | 36Similarly, another 2 points of Con damage will only reduce his max and current HP by 4, since his 2nd-level HP have bottomed out.</blockquote>

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