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[Hit Points - Minor Rant] How few is too few?
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<blockquote data-quote="Ace" data-source="post: 271079" data-attributes="member: 944"><p>Sorry but if you made me sit on a substantially below average series of HP die rolls I would walk out of the game.</p><p></p><p>The fact is most D&D scenarios involve a lot of combat and unless your hp per die are at least average, well the game is over for you.</p><p></p><p>If you have 37 hit point at 6th level you are dead in three rounds</p><p> and thats no fun at all</p><p></p><p>An example --- You party is in the dungeon and runs into another party. The get the drop on you</p><p></p><p>Round 1 -- Fireball 21pts save for half 10</p><p></p><p>Round 2-- Arrow from the improved invisible sniper -- Rogue 3 fighter 4 15 points</p><p></p><p>Round 3-- magic missles 14 points ooops</p><p></p><p>and thats an easy suggestion</p><p></p><p>If you game doesn't involve much combat then low hP guy will do fine but most D&D games are very combat centric</p><p></p><p>RP oriented players usually play other systems.</p><p></p><p>What I do is assume that the player charcters have 75% max HP for the each level after 1---</p><p></p><p>That way they can take on the hellish encounters I throw at them <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=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ace, post: 271079, member: 944"] Sorry but if you made me sit on a substantially below average series of HP die rolls I would walk out of the game. The fact is most D&D scenarios involve a lot of combat and unless your hp per die are at least average, well the game is over for you. If you have 37 hit point at 6th level you are dead in three rounds and thats no fun at all An example --- You party is in the dungeon and runs into another party. The get the drop on you Round 1 -- Fireball 21pts save for half 10 Round 2-- Arrow from the improved invisible sniper -- Rogue 3 fighter 4 15 points Round 3-- magic missles 14 points ooops and thats an easy suggestion If you game doesn't involve much combat then low hP guy will do fine but most D&D games are very combat centric RP oriented players usually play other systems. What I do is assume that the player charcters have 75% max HP for the each level after 1--- That way they can take on the hellish encounters I throw at them ;) [/QUOTE]
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