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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vegepygmy" data-source="post: 4678508" data-attributes="member: 40109"><p>DMG, page 290:</p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'CelestiaAntiqua-Medium'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'CelestiaAntiqua-Medium'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: deepskyblue">If a character’s Constitution score drops, then he loses 1 hit</span></p></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'CelestiaAntiqua-Medium'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'CelestiaAntiqua-Medium'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: deepskyblue">point per Hit Die for every point by which his Constitution modifier</span></p></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'CelestiaAntiqua-Medium'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'CelestiaAntiqua-Medium'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: deepskyblue">drops. For example, at 7th level, Tordek is hit by poison that</span></p></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'CelestiaAntiqua-Medium'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'CelestiaAntiqua-Medium'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: deepskyblue">causes his Constitution to drop from 16 to 13. His Constitution</span></p></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'CelestiaAntiqua-Medium'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'CelestiaAntiqua-Medium'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: deepskyblue">modifier falls from +3 to +1, so he loses 14 hit points (2 per level).</span></p></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'CelestiaAntiqua-Medium'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'CelestiaAntiqua-Medium'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: deepskyblue">A minute later, the poison deals another 8 points of Constitution</span></p></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'CelestiaAntiqua-Medium'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'CelestiaAntiqua-Medium'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: deepskyblue">damage, dropping his score to 5 and his modifier to –3. He loses</span></p></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'CelestiaAntiqua-Medium'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'CelestiaAntiqua-Medium'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: deepskyblue">another 28 hit points—for a total of 42 hit points lost because of</span></p><p><span style="color: deepskyblue">an overall 6-point drop in his Constitution modifier.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'CelestiaAntiqua-Medium'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'CelestiaAntiqua-Medium'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>

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