Health (Derived Attribute) - Revision history

Samael at 16:58, 4 June 2018

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Samael at 15:05, 1 June 2018

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Samael: /* Hit Dice and HD */

2018-05-30T21:45:05Z

‎Hit Dice and HD

Samael: /* Hit Dice and HD */

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‎Hit Dice and HD

Samael: /* Hit Dice and HD */

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‎Hit Dice and HD

Samael: /* Determining Hit-Points */

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‎Determining Hit-Points

Samael: /* Determining Hit-Points */

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‎Determining Hit-Points

Samael: Undo revision 1993 by Samael (talk)

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Undo revision 1993 by Samael (talk)

Samael: /* Hit Dice Size */

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‎Hit Dice Size

Samael: /* HP 0 and Negative HP */

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‎HP 0 and Negative HP

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-Health is divided into several elements - Hit Dice, HP, VP and System Shock.
+Health is divided into several elements - Hit-Dice, HP, VP and System Shock.
 '''NOTE''' - this is currently under revision owing to difficulties with Pseudoclass/HD. I may make it so that Class Levels can be added to Base HD to determine things like HP and Level HD, this means that 1st Level characters will actually start out with a few more HP. You get Base HD + Class HD for HP. Reduce Levels by 1 to determine Level HD.
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 If your base HD is 1 or less, you use Class for determining all saves, thac0 and HD, but may substitute the first Level's HP with your existing HP if its higher. Otherwise, class is additive
 If a character has both HD and Levels, as per Pseudoclass, the HD they gain from their Race or otherwise is considered to be their Base HD but whatever gives the highest relevant value for something is used where appropriate. For example, if a character has 7 Levels of Fighter but 10d4 HD, they would use their higher Base HD for Saving Throws but would roll both Base HD and Fighter Levels HD to determine HP and then take the best result.
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 After 10th level, Classes no longer gain any full Hit Dice as HP. Instead, they gain +3 if their HD Size is 10 or more, +2 if it is d6 to d8 and +1 if it is d4 or less.
 ==HP==

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	or... god, this kind of breaks down at HD 1 and lower. Work it out.		or... god, this kind of breaks down at HD 1 and lower. Work it out.
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	If a character has 1 HD or less and no Class Levels, they must use 0th Level Saves and thac0.		If a character has 1 HD or less and no Class Levels, they must use 0th Level Saves and thac0.
		+	If your base HD is 1 or less, you use Class for determining all saves, thac0 and HD, but may substitute the first Level's HP with your existing HP if its higher. Otherwise, class is additive
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	or... god, this kind of breaks down at HD 1 and lower. Work it out.		or... god, this kind of breaks down at HD 1 and lower. Work it out.

		+	If a character has 1 HD or less and no Class Levels, they must use 0th Level Saves and thac0.

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	==Hit Dice and HD==		==Hit Dice and HD==
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		+	'''NOTE''' - this is currently under revision owing to difficulties with Pseudoclass/HD. I may make it so that Class Levels can be added to Base HD to determine things like HP and Level HD, this means that 1st Level characters will actually start out with a few more HP. You get Base HD + Class HD for HP. Reduce Levels by 1 to determine Level HD.
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		+	This will, obviously, effect thac0 and saves as well. They may need to creep higher. Or we may need to let them pick between using their Base HD or Class HD to determine which saves they use, which is like it is in the book. In the case of a Cleric Giant with 8 Base HD and 2 levels of Cleric, they could save as Monster 8 or Cleric 9. If they were a Fighter, it'd be Monster 8 or Fighter 9 on the thac0 table. They'd get their Base HD + 2 Fighter Levels of HD for determining HP.
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		+	or... god, this kind of breaks down at HD 1 and lower. Work it out.
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	Hit-Dice refers to the dice used to determine the overall health of a character and, from it, their relative strength. Typically, when referred to in its abbreviated form of HD, it refers to the total amount of Levels or Hit-Dice the character has, regardless of how many Hit Points they currently possess. A 10 HD creature has, unless stated otherwise, 10 Hit-Dices that have a Hit-Dice Size of d8. This means they possess 10-80 HP by default.		Hit-Dice refers to the dice used to determine the overall health of a character and, from it, their relative strength. Typically, when referred to in its abbreviated form of HD, it refers to the total amount of Levels or Hit-Dice the character has, regardless of how many Hit Points they currently possess. A 10 HD creature has, unless stated otherwise, 10 Hit-Dices that have a Hit-Dice Size of d8. This means they possess 10-80 HP by default.

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 Hit-Dice refers to the dice used to determine the overall health of a character and, from it, their relative strength. Typically, when referred to in its abbreviated form of HD, it refers to the total amount of Levels or Hit-Dice the character has, regardless of how many Hit Points they currently possess. A 10 HD creature has, unless stated otherwise, 10 Hit-Dices that have a Hit-Dice Size of d8. This means they possess 10-80 HP by default.
-If a character has both HD and Levels, as per Pseudoclass, the HD they gain from their Race or otherwise is considered their Base HD and only the highest is considered for purposes of HD; if a character has 7 Levels of Fighter but 10d4 HD, they would most likely use Fighter Levels for determining HP and Base HD for Saving Throws.
+If a character has both HD and Levels, as per Pseudoclass, the HD they gain from their Race or otherwise is considered to be their Base HD but whatever gives the highest relevant value for something is used where appropriate. For example, if a character has 7 Levels of Fighter but 10d4 HD, they would use their higher Base HD for Saving Throws but would roll both Base HD and Fighter Levels HD to determine HP and then take the best result.
 ===Hit Dice Size===
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 A Hill Giant with 12-1 HD has 95 HP normally at maximum due to having a 1d8 HD Size. If their Hit Dice Size were 1d8+5, this would instead be 12 x 13 -1 HP, for a total of 155 HP.
-A character may have multiple types of Hit-Dice. If this is due to a character having HD in addition to Level, their base HD determines HP until their Level is higher than this. Any Level beyond their HD grants HP accordingly.
+A character may have multiple types of Hit-Dice. If this is due to a character having HD in addition to Level, roll both their Base HD and Class Levels HD to determine HP - take the highest value given.
 ===Divided HD===

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 ===Determining Hit-Points===
-A character begins with a number of HP dependent on their Hit-Dice, Levels, Toughness and the Adventure Style. As discussed above, a character uses whichever gives effectively the highest HP from Base HD or Level - generally speaking, this is 1d8 for a newly created humanoid character, vs. their class.
+A character begins with a number of HP dependent on their Hit-Dice, Levels, Toughness and the Adventure Style. As discussed above, a character uses whichever gives effectively the highest HP from Base HD or Level - generally speaking, this is 1d8 for most races. A character may roll both their Base HD AND their Level to determine HP and then take the best result, though they must use the whole pool for one or the other.
 Character rolls their Hit-Dice to determine HP for each HD they have. If the roll is lower than Minimum HP, use Minimum HP in its place. This is then modified this by Toughness, but it cannot be made less than 1 HP per HD.
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 <span style="color:red">'''Traditional Adventures'''</span> - The highest bonus a character who does ''not'' have Warrior Levels can receive to their Hit-Dice is +2 from Toughness unless they have HD and/or Pseudoclass Levels. This does not alter Fatigue.
-<span style="color:yellow">'''Heroic Adventures'''</span> - Every character's first Level's HD is maximized. Minimum HP is doubled. No effect on Base HD.
+<span style="color:yellow">'''Heroic Adventures'''</span> - Every character's first Level's HD is maximized. Minimum HP is doubled. No effect on Base HD - these must still be rolled for determining Base HP.
 <span style="color:lime">'''Epic Adventures'''</span> - Every character's Hit-Dice is always maximized.

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 If a character cannot increase their Current HP with Temporary HP as it has reached Maximum HP and Temporary HP's duration has expired, then 1 point of Temporary HP is lost per round.
-==HP 0 and Negative HP==
+==HP 0==
 When a character reaches 0 HP, they gain the [[Critical (Status)|Critical]] condition - in this state, all HP damage is also dealt to VP. As Insidious Damage does HP and VP damage, this means that it effectively does double damage. This condition is removed when the character's HP is above 0.
 <span style="color:red">'''Traditional Adventures'''</span> - Character is [[Death (Status)#Dead|Dead]] at 0 HP, unless something prevents death or some effect has [[Death (Status)#Destroyed|Destroyed]] them or caused them to be simply [[Death (Status)#Gone|Gone]].
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 <span style="color:lime">'''Epic Adventures'''</span> - No change.
-===Consciousness at 0 HP===
+===Negative HP===
-If a character hits 0 HP, they must make a skill check to remain conscious and active. This also happens if they take further damage.
+HP can be reduced ''below'' 0 but the only effect this has is to make it harder to remove the [[Critical (Status)|Critical]] condition from the character. For example, a character who is dropped to HP -10 has presumably lost 10 VP and must heal 11 HP (enough to take them up to 1 HP) before they can act normally again.
 ==VP==