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Mike Mearls even said, i can't remember what interview it was in, that the HP points are pourposely high for PCs and low for Monsters.  They just put them that like that for the playtest.  I personally like how the hit points are right now.  Base con and then random die roll.  I love wizards but i hate the patheticly low hit points at first level.  There is being squishy and then there is you fall and trip and die, yes i know it is an exageration. The player characters are Heroes and should be able to take a beating.  Becasue the 16 HP for the wizards really is not that much. that is only a couple well placed blows till death.

That's still pretty high to me. I see nothing wrong with wizards having as low as roll on the die + Con mod hp. Different strokes for different folks though, that's why I want the actual rulebooks to present multiple options.

May 26, 2012 -- 10:08AM, Lathikadas wrote:

Hit points are calculated as (full constitution)+(medium hit dice).
Pregens all have high con, so good hps, that's all.
So a wizard only gains 2 hps/level, not that many.
I prefer this to the old 1d4+con modifier at each level because players survive better at the beginning and don't grow too fast, but that's just my feeling to it.
 

At first I misread the healing rules and played it as all healing is done through spending hit dice and you only regained those hit dice to spend again after a full rest. So even if you got a full nights sleep you probably wouldn't get back all of your hit points the next day. I'm going to stick with this because I'm also not a big fan of healing from 4e.