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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Skyscraper" data-source="post: 5925589" data-attributes="member: 48518">Actually, the entire point you made about the bell curve applying to ability scores, applies to hit points as you level up.I also agree with another poster who mentions that everyone having the same HPs is boring. I like seeing characters with important HP variations.Where I do agree with you is that I'd like to avoid seeing a fighers with 1 starting HP, while another gets 10. However, for the playtest PCs it seems like the designers gave a fixed initial  value of HPs and then give an additional value (average hit die value). This average will probably be replaced by a rolled value. We'll see if this is kept in the  final version, but this would indeed mitigate problems you seem to have  with HP variations. Personally, on that last point, I hope that there is more variation in character starting HPs - in fact in HPs throughout the levels. To me, it's fun to see characters with significantly lowers HPs than others (say, 50% less), in particular having low-HP wizards for example.</blockquote>