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With the Bounded Accuracy design concept, is there a good reason to have the different classes differ in size of hit dice?  what is it inherently about the wizard class that makes them more frail, and why does it differ from the mechanical value of the wizard's constitution score?  what is it inherently about the fighter class that makes them more hardy, and why does it differ from the mechanical value of the fighter's constitution score?

monster hit dice are determined by size, rather than class (or role), even for human "monsters".  small monsters have d6s for hit dice, medium monsters have d8s, and large monsters have d10s. 

I propose that all medium sized player characters' hit dice be d8s, the same as monster hit dice.  at level up, a character may choose either (1d8 + constitution modifier) or (5 + constitution modifier).

as a fighter is likely to have a higher constitution than a wizard, cleric or rogue, his hit points will go up faster, representing this meme that the martial, battle-hardened, grizzled fighter is "tougher" and able to take more punishment than the frail, bearded, bookish wizard.

potential pros:
hit points still increase, at a predictable rate, for all classes.
monsters and player characters are more closely balanced, leading to greater ease in encounter design
combat difficulty is easy for DMs to scale by fiddling with a two-dimensional health pool economy: 
- raising monster hit dice makes monsters tougher but not deadlier to characters
- lowering monster hit dice makes monsters more frail but not weaker to characters
- raising player hit dice makes players tougher but not deadlier to monsters
- lowering player hit dice makes players more frail but not weaker to monsters
- combine the above in a way that you like for a different feel, such as grittier or more drawn out combat.
multiple ways to influence hp progression mechanically through feats or class features
- bonus added to hit dice when rolling
- influence the size of hit dice

potential cons:
simplifies the system, "homogenizing" classes
- rogues, clerics, wizards likely to have the same HP progression while fighters outpace them
breaks very hard from tradition, more radical than 4e

i think that what i've presented does present "hardy fighters" and "frail wizards".  small differences between the classes is part of what bounded accuracy is about.

I think they are going back on the bounded accuracy idea.  I see that attacks are going up +1 every 3 levels or so.  

Aug 16, 2012 -- 2:18AM, Daganev wrote:

I think they are going back on the bounded accuracy idea.  I see that attacks are going up +1 every 3 levels or so.  

I don't think their going back on the idea.  Bounded accuracy actually seems to be a trend over the last edition.  Instead of +1 every level (fighter classes), they flattened it in 4e to +1/2 per level.  I see bounded accuracy continuing the trend of flattening level based bonuses further and applying the flattening effect to non-combat related facets of the game. 

I think that it might make things easier to balance for the designers.  One of the biggest problems, balance wised at least in my opinion, was the large growth of bonuses as one gained levels.  They might be modifying the concept of bounded accuracy, I don't think they are "going back" on it though.