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<blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 6382477" data-attributes="member: 2525">On the contrary, you rolled extremely good.&nbsp; It's 5d8 for the first level slot.&nbsp; That's 22.5 on average, so your lowest roll was not far below dead average, whereas your crappiest roll should have been around 12.5.&nbsp; Average for the second level slot is 31.5, so a 45 is high (you had to roll almost an average of 6 on every one of those 7 d8s to get that high, when the average roll is 4.5 per die).&nbsp; Your rolls definitely defied the odds, on the high side, if those two numbers you gave were the range you rolled.In addition, the odds say you will have some wasted hit points in that total, sometimes a lot of them, as the next creature in line each time has increasing hit points.&nbsp; So when you get to the end, you have the highest hit points subtracting from the lowest amount left, and if you don't meet or exceed their hit points that's it, the rest is wasted.Sleep is fine, but it's not the spell you keep making it out to be, in my experience.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mistwell, post: 6382477, member: 2525"] On the contrary, you rolled extremely good. It's 5d8 for the first level slot. That's 22.5 on average, so your lowest roll was not far below dead average, whereas your crappiest roll should have been around 12.5. Average for the second level slot is 31.5, so a 45 is high (you had to roll almost an average of 6 on every one of those 7 d8s to get that high, when the average roll is 4.5 per die). Your rolls definitely defied the odds, on the high side, if those two numbers you gave were the range you rolled. In addition, the odds say you will have some wasted hit points in that total, sometimes a lot of them, as the next creature in line each time has increasing hit points. So when you get to the end, you have the highest hit points subtracting from the lowest amount left, and if you don't meet or exceed their hit points that's it, the rest is wasted. Sleep is fine, but it's not the spell you keep making it out to be, in my experience. [/QUOTE]

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