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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WhatGravitas" data-source="post: 6052824" data-attributes="member: 33132">Fixed amount. For three reasons:a) Damage is random already - but averages out, hit points don't, rolling low hit points is equivalent to giving all enemies loaded damage dice against you.b) Hit point rolling is always done with a single dice, meaning the probability is flat... if it was a bell-curve like probability I'd have less problems with it.c) It's a lot easier to balance a game around a less wildly varying hit point value (where a fighter 3 in one game has 12 hit points in one game and a fighter 2 has 20 hit points in another).So vast preference for fixed as default option (that players always should have). I don't mind giving people the option to roll though, if they really want to - especially if it's then a "hybrid roll" like 1d4+2 etc.EDIT: I totally see that as prime material for a module, though. Because if you're going to a long campaign, possibly story-driven, having the potential to cripple a character without making a single bad choice is annoying. If it's a campaign where I'll burn through several characters in a shorter period (e.g. a beer & pretzels dungeon crawl campaign), then the tactical challenge can be interesting - but then mark it as a "hardcore crawl module".</blockquote>