Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="ichabod" data-source="post: 681982" data-attributes="member: 1257"><p>I don't think it's a good idea to base the minimum after con bonus is added. That gives an advantage to lower con bonuses. Take a player rolling d8 for hp. If they have a 10 con, they get extra hit points (in that they get more than they rolled) 50% of the time. The same character with a 14 con gets extra hit points 25% of the time. This means you are evening out the effects of con bonus (which is under player control) rather than the effects of the die roll (which isn't). It seems to me that if the player took a low con bonus that's their own fault. I'd go with something else, like minimum die roll, or some sort of reroll. A mechanic that just popped into my head is you can reroll any hit point roll, but the maximum goes down by one. So if you roll a d8 and get a one, you can reroll with all 8's counting as 7's. If you get another one, you can reroll with all 8's and 7's counting as 6's.</p></blockquote><p></p>