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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gryph" data-source="post: 5938161" data-attributes="member: 98071">I, on the other hand, have been enjoying D&D for decades (started with Holmes Basic in '77) but not with crappy starting HP values.  One of our long standing houserules was starting with Con score + HD roll at first level. The speed of character generation in did not alleviate the loss of enjoyment we felt from losing a first level character we were already becoming attached to. My friends and I liked creating fairly detailed backstories with hooks for the DM to use during the campaign. Fragile starting PCs are harmful to the enjoyment of this playstyle. My gut tells me that truly new players will enjoy the game more if their first character isn't fragile (single digit starting hp), but that could well be personal bias talking. Still, there is no real need to argue over wich is better. This is a pretty simple dial and a sidebar in the main rules explaining other starting HP options makes it easy enough for either of us to play with the style we like regardless of the default dial setting.</blockquote>