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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DarkMaster" data-source="post: 1711982" data-attributes="member: 16362">Well even a 20 level barbarian with 20+ Con would probably not survive. Most of the PC HP do not represent it's ability to withstand corporal damage. The same blow from the 6 foot hunk (Let's say it does 10dmg) of metal would have blown most commoner head, and they would have die a few seconds later and a very few lucky would have survived but barely (Stabilise).but the 20 level barbarian with 230hp and a DR of 4 or 5 has been fighting for years, he knows all the trick, he will always position himself to reduce the effectiveness of every blown landed towards him, he anticipates his enemies move, he knows how to make each and every action count so that he waste as least as possible energy on each action, ect. So the same blow will not even touch him or make a small scrach on his nose. The lose of 5 HP will reflect more accumulated fatigue from this sudden action then real corporal damage. After receiving for 225 DMG he will then be exhausted probably bleeding from various injury but none would be major, but it's concentration and physical energy would be quite down from all these combat he went through, So he would be more prone to commit mistake or lack the appropriate reflex to dodge that last fatal blow. IMC my PC only receives a serious body blow when they reach 0 hp, a Coup de Grace (which I tend to allow more easily then described in the SRD), or massive damage.If the 20 level Barbarian receives for 40 hp damage, his opponent pull out a maneuvre that would have kill any low level barbarian, but he managed to dodge, maybe getting a minor wound from it. Also notice how poison works they affect directly constitution and not hp. BAB is the offensive part of your fighting capability and HP AC and DR represent your own defensive capability.All of them will make you a good fighter.</blockquote>

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