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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sailor Moon" data-source="post: 6475264" data-attributes="member: 6776331">From 2nd edition PHB.Hit points - a number representing 1. howmuch damage a character can suffer beforebeing killed, determined by Hit Dice (9.u.).The hit points lost to injury can usually beregained by rest or healing. 2. how muchdamage a specific attack does, determinedby weapon or monster statistics, and subtractedfrom a player's total.Damage - the effect of a successful attack orother harmful situation, measured in hitpoints.From 1st edition PHB.Conatitution: Constitution is a term which encompasses the character’sphysique, fitness, health, and resistance. Since constitution affects thecharacter‘s hit dice and chances of surviving such great system shocks asbeing changed by magic spell or resurrected from the dead, it is ofconsiderable importance to all classes. Constitution scores of above acertain number are necessary for becoming certain sub-classes ofcharacters. Effects of constitution are given on the table below.It is of utmost importance to understand that a character’s initialconstitution score is also the maximum number of times the character canbe raised from the dead/resurrected, and that each such revivificationreduces the character’s constitution score by 1. Although a character’sconstitution can be restored to its former score, or even raised above thisnumber, by magical means, this in no way alters the initio1 scorelimitation, nor does such magical change in constitution restore to thecharacter additional chances for revivification. Thus, if a character has aninitial constitution of 15, he or she can never be brought back to life by araise dead or resurrection spell more often than 15 times. Note that a rodof resurrection is considered the same as a spell of the same sort. The 16thdeath is final and irrevocable without use of some other magical meanssuch as a wish.Now it's cute that some of you continue to bang on about this but 4th edition did not mimic how HP was looked at and the system was chock full of inconsistencies with regards to the narrative and the math. If you look at the old mechanics only then it looks like HP was mostly a physical thing. Hell, even today your Constitution, which is purely physical, is tied to HP and how much extra you get. The same goes with the definition of damage and HP.The rules have been one big contradiction since the beginning and 4th edition managed to bring it even more in the spotlight and made it even harder to gloss over.</blockquote>

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