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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jaelommiss" data-source="post: 6514542" data-attributes="member: 6775925">I love the look of this. I would, however, make a couple of tweaks. Instead of losing 1d6 HP on going down, HP maximum would be reduced by any excess damage beyond 0. If an attack brings a character to exactly 0, then there would be no loss of HP max. If the same character has 1HP before getting hit by a dragon's breath weapon, then the additional damage takes longer to heal.I would allow HP maximum to restore at a rate of proficiency modifer per day instead of a flat 1. That way higher level characters would heal faster to make up for a greater potential max HP reduction. This could be halved to slow healing while still granting a benefit to higher level characters.Finally, I would allow magical healing to increase max HP instead of restoring HP, up to the target's regular maximum. Consider a Joe the Fighter. He has a regular maximum of 70 HP. A hydra knocked him unconscious with a bite, however there was an additional thirteen points of damage. His maximum falls to 57. A cleric casting cure wounds rolls for a total of 8. The cleric could either restore 8HP to the fighter or increase his maximum HP to 65. That night Joe regains regains a further 3 max HP, bringing him up to 68 (1 and 66 if halved).</blockquote>