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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ForceUser@Home" data-source="post: 270920" data-attributes="member: 4945">So my players (or DMs, depending on what day it is <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ) are under the impression that a character who rolls poorly on his hit points is doomed and should be round-filed. Nevermind that we uniformly use 28-point buy to build them, and that no one ever starts play with less than a 14 Con. Nevermind that there are magic items in the game, easily attainable for a character with the appropriate wealth, that will bump a low hit-point character up to average hit points. What's wrong with average hit points????Let's take, for instance, Garlok the 6th-level dwarven barbarian/fighter/ranger. Garlok's player has had the misfortune of rolling something along the lines of 2,1,2,3,1 for his hit points each level. Garlok is the main fighter in the campaign. I don't know his exact stats, but he's got at least a 14 Con, and being a dwarf, I'd say it's probably closer to 16. So he's adding +3 hit points per level, meaning that if he rolls a 2 on a d10, he gets 5 hit points, which is the average. Yes, it sucks that he's had poor luck on rolling hit points. My opinion is that the character is fine despite that, because with a +2 Con item and/or a vest of false life, he's a little above average. Everyone else in my play group thinks Garlok is doomed. We're playing core rules with no fancy stuff. Who's right? Whose perception is skewed? I think it's theirs. My character in that campaign hasn't rolled stellar for hps either. Not as bad as poor Garlok, but a bit below average all the same. You would have to pry that character sheet from my cold, dead hands. I love that character. I don't care if I rolled minimum every level, by god, that's who I'm playing. Dead? Whatever - raise me. I'm roleplaying here. ROLEPLAYING. Grr.</blockquote>

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