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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 8584177" data-attributes="member: 93670">It might be true in regards to the advantage of hp being simiplicity as opposed to some of the  multi-pool systems you see from time to time with their own pros & cons, but that's been taken to a& maybe even beyond a munchkinized extreme where all the things viewed as PC facing cons of a HP system are also removed in 5e where hp mean nothing & losing them means even less.  A player with X hitpoints can do this for 12 hours straight every day<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Lets say that X is 100hp just to use an easy number</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">[ispoiler]get hit for 199 hp& drop to zero[/ispoiler]</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">[ispoiler]get hit for 99 damage failing 2 death saves[/ispoiler]</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">[ispoiler]get healed for 1d4+1 hp with healing word[/ispoiler]</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">[ispoiler]get hit for 100hp& drop to zero[/ispoiler]</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">[ispoiler]get hit for 99 damage failing 2 death saves[/ispoiler]</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">[ispoiler]get 1 hp back with a 1hp lay on hands[/ispoiler]</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">[ispoiler]Get hit for 100hp[/ispoiler]</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">[ispoiler]repeat this going back from the start for the next sixteen hours[/ispoiler]</li> </ul>In the span of just the first couple rounds of the day before the coffee even finished brewing the player with 100hp has taken 500+ damage that was washed away with 1d4+2 points worth of healing.  Not only that 16 hours later the player who had taken thousands of damage over 12 hours & maybe been healed a couple hundred hp in that time can take an 8 hour nap to recover his original 100hp while all of his allies do the same to recover all of their spell slots & abilities used to do all of that recovery.  If they all decided to celebrate their victory by each drinking an entire cask of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everclear" target="_blank">190 proof everclear</a> as a nightcap the resulting hangover will have more impact on them the next day than straining themselves so deeply the day before.In fact the players can only keep up that breakneck pace for three+con mod days before suffering a level of exhaustion on day 3 6 etc unless they find time in that busy schedule of weapons testing & anatomy lessons to grab one meal.  Since exhaustion 4 is half HP they should probably do this every two days to maximize their effectiveness</blockquote>

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