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Message: <blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 9745705" data-attributes="member: 3400">Here's where you're not making the right connection. That 10th level bard isn't really a 20-24th level AD&D character at all. If a prospective bard maxes fighter duration (7th level, 70,0001 XP), then maxes thief duration (8th level, +70,0001 XP), and then to bard (10th level, +110,000 XP), his hit points are 7d10+1d6+9d6 (average 73.5 hp). That would be less than a fighter with 9d10+33. But here's the rub...The bard hits 10th level at a shade over 250,000 XP with all those hit dice. At that XP total, the fighter is just getting to his 9d10 and average 49.5 hp. Even if the bard has had to waste a lot of XP in leveling up (due to following training rules), he's still LEVELS ahead of the fighter in accumulated hit dice (though, honestly, not really in overall power).So yeah, a bard absolutely COULD have more hit points than the fighter after equivalent adventuring.</blockquote>