To roll or not to roll? (This is a companion to the other thread).
D&D 5E Player Hit Points
Haha, is this a question of "how should it be done" or "how do you do it?"
Because over time I think using average is the good idea. And stats should be point buy or standard array.
But how do I do it? I allow players to roll HP. If you roll bad that sucks but there it is. Most of them don't roll, and take the average.
Whereas for stats, I allow a safety net: 4d6DL x 6, assign. Don't like it, you can use point buy.
But players only want to roll because there's the chance that they'll roll well and come out ahead! They DON'T want to roll because there's the chance that they'll roll poorly.. so the gamblers roll HP and sometimes regret it: there's a wizard in one of my games that's rolled well below average. I think he rolled something like: 6,1,1,4,3,1,2. The wizard.. ok he can stay in the back.
When a martial character rolled that badly for HP, the player retired him in a few sessions. So what's the point of rolling? The thrill is what keeps it attractive...
Because over time I think using average is the good idea. And stats should be point buy or standard array.
But how do I do it? I allow players to roll HP. If you roll bad that sucks but there it is. Most of them don't roll, and take the average.
Whereas for stats, I allow a safety net: 4d6DL x 6, assign. Don't like it, you can use point buy.
But players only want to roll because there's the chance that they'll roll well and come out ahead! They DON'T want to roll because there's the chance that they'll roll poorly.. so the gamblers roll HP and sometimes regret it: there's a wizard in one of my games that's rolled well below average. I think he rolled something like: 6,1,1,4,3,1,2. The wizard.. ok he can stay in the back.
When a martial character rolled that badly for HP, the player retired him in a few sessions. So what's the point of rolling? The thrill is what keeps it attractive...
AnotherGuy
Hero
Players hit points are important for Hardcore LARPing
Mistwell
Crusty Old Meatwad (he/him)
Good lord that's going to increase hit points. A single roll is already on average more than the averaging in the book, and rolling with advantage is just going to pump that up even more.
payn
He'll flip ya...Flip ya for real...
The HP they got, the more you can throw at them.
billd91
Not your screen monkey (he/him)
Expected value ends up around 60-66% of max depending on hit die. Hardly a “good lord”, pearl-clutching moment.
ichabod
Legned
??? The average given in the PHB is greater than the average of the roll given in the PHB. For example, the Bard entry says "1d8 (or 5) + your constitution modifier ..." The average of 1d8 is 4.5, which is less than 5. Or am I misunderstanding what you said?
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