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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alas" data-source="post: 9767113" data-attributes="member: 71687">I've toyed with the idea of something tangentially similar: pooling low level characters' hit points into a "party HP" total. Like, instead of the 1st-level party of five having 8, 15, 9, 11, and 12 hp, they have a group pool of 55 hp. Whoever takes the hit that drops the pool down to 0 falls and starts the death-save process, but the pool then resets to 55 and they can start over. The intent is that nobody falls to a single hit, and the whole party can't wipe at once, but somebody will go down every so many combats. They get to see it coming, and practice dealing with it, but there's guard rails of a sort in place. Once the party gets to a high enough level (maybe 4th), the rails get taken off and everybody starts managing their own hit points.I was mainly speculating about this when dealing with a crop of brand new to D&D players.</blockquote>