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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7187034" data-attributes="member: 29398">Or were you?Sometimes - once in a while - one of those 'nothing' characters hangs around long enough to become a star...and there's nothing I like more than seeing this happen.Other times...well, just keep in mind it's a rogue-like game and pull out those d6's. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I've been playing 1e for well over 30 years now.&nbsp; In that time I've gone through about 55 characters (which seems odd, I thought it was more; but that's what my records tell me) and none of them has reached anywhere near 90 h.p.&nbsp; Nor even 80 h.p.&nbsp; Best I've had are a couple in the low to mid 70's (a F-10 [that being Lanefan the character] and, I think, a Dwarf C-11).Now in fairness, of course most of them didn't get to that kind of level range...but of those that did I have or had a MU-10 in the mid-30's (would be mid-20's without a device), a C-10 in the 60's I think, another Dwarf C-9 in the mid-50, an I-10 in the mid-20's.&nbsp; And both the Dwarf Clerics I mentioned were War Clerics, and thus not only expected to be front liners but often to lead the charge.I did have one Part-Orc Fighter for a while who had the potential to get to stratospheric h.p. numbers due to his Con having ticked over 20 (!) but alas, he died the death far too soon.And I'm not alone.&nbsp; The first campaign I played in went for over ten years, got to about 9th level, and the highest character h.p. total we saw was something like 85...and that was an outlier.Now in the current campaign - and this brings up a balance question - we have the opposite problem: too many h.p., and more of a problem, too much disparity in h.p.&nbsp; Recently we had a group where the high h.p. was something like 110 and the low was in the low 20's...and how on earth does a DM even threaten something with 110 h.p. (and the constitution of a bus) without wiping out someone with less than 25?Lan-&quot;this last question is relevant to me as I'm the one who had the &lt;25-point wonder&quot;-efan</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 7187034, member: 29398"] Or were you? Sometimes - once in a while - one of those 'nothing' characters hangs around long enough to become a star...and there's nothing I like more than seeing this happen. Other times...well, just keep in mind it's a rogue-like game and pull out those d6's. :) I've been playing 1e for well over 30 years now. In that time I've gone through about 55 characters (which seems odd, I thought it was more; but that's what my records tell me) and none of them has reached anywhere near 90 h.p. Nor even 80 h.p. Best I've had are a couple in the low to mid 70's (a F-10 [that being Lanefan the character] and, I think, a Dwarf C-11). Now in fairness, of course most of them didn't get to that kind of level range...but of those that did I have or had a MU-10 in the mid-30's (would be mid-20's without a device), a C-10 in the 60's I think, another Dwarf C-9 in the mid-50, an I-10 in the mid-20's. And both the Dwarf Clerics I mentioned were War Clerics, and thus not only expected to be front liners but often to lead the charge. I did have one Part-Orc Fighter for a while who had the potential to get to stratospheric h.p. numbers due to his Con having ticked over 20 (!) but alas, he died the death far too soon. And I'm not alone. The first campaign I played in went for over ten years, got to about 9th level, and the highest character h.p. total we saw was something like 85...and that was an outlier. Now in the current campaign - and this brings up a balance question - we have the opposite problem: too many h.p., and more of a problem, too much disparity in h.p. Recently we had a group where the high h.p. was something like 110 and the low was in the low 20's...and how on earth does a DM even threaten something with 110 h.p. (and the constitution of a bus) without wiping out someone with less than 25? Lan-"this last question is relevant to me as I'm the one who had the <25-point wonder"-efan [/QUOTE]

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